11 million children benefit from nutrition reform program in China

BEIJING: MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021 – By the end of 2020, 11 million children will have benefited from the nutrition reform program in China.

According to the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the program covered 832 relatively weak counties in the country. This program has been in operation since 2012.

Through this program, free nutrition packages were distributed to the children of 6 to 24 months of age living in extreme poverty.

Prior to the program, anemia and malnutrition in children aged 6 to 24 months in the region were 16.3 and 3.2 percent, respectively, but have now improved to 50.5 and 68.3 percent, respectively. – RSS / XINHUA