China to see sustained improvement in child health in 2024

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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) — China's child health indicators continued to improve in 2024, along with the country's steady progress in preschool education, according to a statistical monitoring report released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.

According to the Report on the Implementation of the National Child Development Program of China (2021-2030), in 2024, the neonatal mortality rate in China will decrease to 2.5 per thousand (the number of deaths per 1,000), and the infant mortality rate and the mortality rate of children under five will decrease to 4.0 per thousand and 5.6 per thousand, respectively, which is 0.3, 0.5 and 0.6 per thousand less than in 2023.

The report said that by the end of 2024, there were 3,073 maternal and child health institutions and 162 children's hospitals in China.

According to the document, the rate of passing random inspections of infant formula for food safety reached 99.88 percent in 2024.

The report notes that China's pre-primary education gross enrollment rate in 2024 was 92.0 percent, up 0.9 percentage points from 2023.

According to the document, in 2024, 5.485 million messages containing illegal and harmful online information threatening children were brought to the attention of competent authorities and appropriate measures were taken. -0-

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