China's myopic population over the age of 5 will reach 700 million, and the number has increased year by year recently
4hw.com.cn: the first national visual health report in 2015 wrote that in 2012, among the total population over the age of 5, the number of people with various far vision defects was about 500 million, of which the total number of people with myopia was about 450 million.
It can be said that almost one in three people in China suffers from myopia. Without effective policy intervention, by 2020, the prevalence of myopia in China's population over 5 years old will increase to about 51%, and the sick population will reach 700 million.
As the editor in chief of this book and professor of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, Li Ling frankly said, "the state now attaches great importance to the prevention and control of children and adolescents' myopia, but the high incidence of children and adolescents' myopia has not changed much.".