China’s life expectancy reached 79 years in 2024, a rise of zero.four years since 2023, attaining the goals of the 14th Quinquenal Plan (2021-25) sooner than anticipated, with eight provinces better than 80 years, mentioned Lei Haichao, head of the Nationwide Well being Fee (NHC), at a press convention on Sunday. Lei additionally introduced new initiatives to advertise psychological well being, weight management and wholesome life all through the nation.
Lei made these feedback in response to media consultations on the present well being stage of the Chinese language, particularly with respect to the important thing focus areas to advertise wholesome life and the initiatives deliberate for this yr.
Worldwide, China ranks fourth among the many 53 center and excessive revenue nations, based on statistics, mentioned Lei. In comparison with the G20 nations, the typical life expectancy nonetheless occupies the tenth place, which signifies that even in comparison with excessive -income nations, China exceeds the life expectancy of 21 nations of excessive revenue. This reveals that the Chinese language have life-style, and in addition proves that the implementation of methods similar to Wholesome China 2030 has had a direct impact on the advance of public well being.
The typical life expectancy of Chinese language residents elevated by 1.7 years in 2024 in comparison with 2019, marking a big enchancment for 5 years, Lei mentioned. Specifically, the hole in well being ranges among the many 31 provinces all through the nation has regularly lowered, indicating better well being fairness. As well as, the three municipalities, Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, in addition to eight provinces, together with Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, have exceeded a median important hope of 80 years.
“The potential for an extra enchancment within the common hope of lifetime of Chinese language residents stays evident and extremely anticipated,” mentioned Lei.
By way of psychological well being providers, on the finish of this yr, every prefecture and metropolis might set up a psychological or sleep clinic to supply psychological well being providers extra accessible to the general public, based on Lei. He additionally famous that this yr, there shall be a promotion on the nationwide stage of using the direct line “12356” to supply psychological well being providers and help.
Lei emphasised additional the promotion of the three -year marketing campaign to enhance public weight administration, the initiative to domesticate a life-style and habits that foster consciousness of weight administration, wholesome consuming and energetic participation in bodily train all through society.
Based on the Xinhua information company in 2024, the Chinese language authorities, together with the NHC and the Ministries of Schooling and Civil Affairs, have issued a doc to launch a 3 -year marketing campaign to enhance the administration of the general public’s weight.
Based on a doc issued collectively by 16 Chinese language departments and organizations and revealed on the NHC web site in June 2024, as of this yr, a sequence of measures shall be taken to see that a supporting surroundings for weight management is shaped in China, and that the general public consciousness and the methods in weight management are considerably improved and life is extra extensively adopted within the subsequent three years.
“NHC has enlisted the Olympic champions as social ambassadors for weight management and has additionally developed Wechat Emojis to combine weight management and prevention of continual ailments in individuals’s day by day lives,” mentioned Lei.
