Overweight Chinese students stretch after swimming during training at a camp held for overweight children in Beijing. A change in the national high-school entrance exam may motivate schoolchildren to be more physically active. Credit: Getty Images
To reduce obesity, more weight is being put on sport in China’s high-school entrance exam
- ‘Even walking a few hundred metres would make him feel short of breath,’ says the worried mother of a Shanghai boy in sixth grade at school
- China’s education ministry, recognising that millions like him are physically inactive and overweight, will put more weight on sport in the school entrance exam
Overweight Chinese students stretch after swimming during training at a camp held for overweight children in Beijing. A change in the national high-school entrance exam may motivate schoolchildren to be more physically active. Credit: Getty Images
