This year, Yichang will build or renovate 32 kindergartens and primary/secondary schools, providing 8,900 additional student places. The construction of 4 high schools in urban areas will also be expedited. To enhance students’ health, Yichang will conduct ongoing monitoring of physical fitness and myopia prevention among primary and secondary schoolchildren. It will also further improve the quality of daily physical education classes in compulsory education schools, pilot extending break periods between classes to 15 minutes, and guarantee a minimum of two hours of diverse physical activities per day. (Reporters/He Guanying and Sun Changtian, Correspondent/Li Nan)