Decree No. 10 of the State Education Commission of the People's Republic of China

1990Released on June 4, 2019

Chapter I: General Provisions

　　Article 1: These Regulations are formulated so as to strengthen school health efforts and improve students' health.

　　Article 2: The main tasks of school health work are: monitoring the health status of students; Educate students on health and good hygiene habits; improving the sanitary environment in schools and teaching and learning; Strengthen the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and common diseases among students.

　　Article 3: "Schools" as used in these Regulations refers to ordinary primary and secondary schools, agricultural middle schools, vocational middle schools, secondary specialized schools, technical schools, and ordinary schools of higher learning.

　　Article 4: The administrative departments for education are responsible for the administrative management of school health work. The health administrative department is responsible for the supervision and guidance of school health work.

Chapter II: Requirements for school health work

　　Article 5: Schools shall reasonably arrange students' study time. Students' daily study time (including self-study) is not more than 6 hours in primary school, 8 hours in secondary school, and 10 hours in university.

　　Schools or teachers must not increase the amount of teaching time and homework for any reason or in any way, increasing students' learning burden.

　　Article 6: The environmental quality of school teaching buildings, environmental noise, indoor microclimate, lighting, lighting, etc., as well as the setting of blackboards, desks and chairs, shall comply with relevant national standards.

　　The site selection and design of newly-built, renovated and expanded school buildings shall comply with national health standards and obtain permission from the local health administrative department. The completion and acceptance shall be attended by the local health administrative department.

　　Article 7: Schools shall follow relevant provisions to set up toilets and handwashing facilities for students. Boarding schools shall provide students with appropriate sanitation facilities such as washing and bathing.

　　Schools shall provide students with adequate drinking water that meets sanitary standards.

　　Article 8: Schools shall establish a sanitation system to strengthen the management of students' personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, and classroom and dormitory hygiene.

　　Article 9 Schools shall conscientiously implement the laws and regulations on food hygiene, strengthen the management of food hygiene, do a good job in students' meals, and strengthen nutrition guidance.

　　Article 10 School sports venues and equipment shall meet health and safety requirements. Athletic programs and exercise intensity should be appropriate for students' physiological tolerance and physical health to prevent injury accidents.

　　Article 11: Schools shall, on the basis of the age of the students, organize students to participate in appropriate labor, and conduct safety education for students participating in labor, and provide necessary safety and health protection measures.

　　Ordinary primary and secondary schools must not expose students to toxic and harmful substances or engage in unsafe types of work, and must not allow students to participate in night shift labor.

　　Where ordinary schools of higher learning, secondary specialized schools, technical schools, agricultural middle schools, and vocational middle schools organize students to participate in production and labor and are exposed to toxic and harmful substances, they shall be provided with health care benefits in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State. Schools shall conduct regular physical examinations on them and strengthen health protection.

　　Article 12: When schools arrange physical education classes and labor and other physical activities, they shall pay attention to the physical characteristics of female students and give them necessary care.

　　Article 13: Schools shall include health education in their teaching plans. Ordinary primary and secondary schools must offer health education courses, and ordinary schools of higher learning, specialized secondary schools, technical schools, agricultural middle schools, and vocational middle schools shall offer health education elective courses or lectures.

　　Schools shall carry out student health consultation activities.

　　Article 14: Schools shall establish a student health management system. Conduct regular physical examinations for students according to conditions, establish student physical health cards, and include them in student files.

　　Where schools discover that students have organic diseases during physical examinations, they shall cooperate with the students' parents to do a good job of referral and treatment.

　　Schools shall strengthen medical care and mental hygiene efforts for students with disabilities or physical infirmities.

　　Article 15: Schools shall be equipped with medical supplies that can handle common injuries and illnesses.

　　Article 16: Schools shall actively do a good job of preventing and correcting common student diseases such as myopia, amblyopia, trachoma, dental caries, parasites, malnutrition, anemia, spinal curvature, and neurasthenia.

　　Article 17 Schools shall conscientiously implement the laws and regulations on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, do a good job in the prevention and control of acute and chronic infectious diseases, and at the same time do a good job in the prevention and control of endemic diseases.

Chapter III: Management of school health work

　　Article 18: Administrative departments for education at all levels shall include school health work in school work plans, as part of the evaluation of school work.

　　Article 19 Ordinary institutions of higher learning, secondary specialized schools, technical schools, and large-scale agricultural middle schools, vocational middle schools, and ordinary primary and secondary schools may set up health management institutions to manage the health work of schools.

　　Article 20: Ordinary institutions of higher learning shall establish school hospitals or health departments. School hospitals shall set up health care departments (rooms) to be responsible for the health care of teachers and students.

　　Ordinary primary and secondary schools in urban areas, central primary schools in rural areas, and ordinary middle schools are to set up clinics, and full-time health technicians are assigned in a ratio of 600 to 1 in the number of students.

　　Secondary specialized schools, technical schools, agricultural middle schools, and vocational middle schools may be equipped with full-time health technicians as needed.

　　Schools with less than 600 students may be assigned full-time or part-time health teachers to carry out school health work.

　　Article 21: With the approval of the local health administrative department, regional primary and secondary school health care institutions may be established.

　　The main tasks of regional health care institutions for primary and secondary school students are:

　　(1) Investigate and study the physical health status of primary and secondary school students in the region;

　　(2) Carry out the prevention and correction of common diseases among primary and secondary school students;

　　(3) Carry out technical training and professional guidance for primary and secondary school health technicians.

　　Article 22: The assessment and evaluation of the professional and technical titles of school health technicians shall be organized and implemented by the administrative departments of education in accordance with the assessment standards and methods formulated by the administrative departments of health and education.

　　School health technicians are entitled to health care allowances in accordance with relevant state regulations.

　　Article 23: The administrative departments for education shall include the training of school health technicians in their enrollment plans, and provide opportunities for further education for school health technicians and health care teachers through various forms of education.

　　Article 24: Administrative departments for education at all levels and schools shall include school health expenses in the approved annual education budgets.

　　Article 25: Administrative departments of health at all levels shall organize medical units and professional prevention and treatment institutions to conduct health examinations, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, and correction of common diseases for students, and accept referral for treatment.

　　Article 26: Health and epidemic prevention stations at all levels shall undertake the following tasks for school health work:

　　(1) Carry out school health monitoring, grasp the growth and development and health status of students in the region, and grasp the dynamics of students' common diseases, infectious diseases, and endemic diseases;

　　(2) Formulate plans for the prevention and treatment of common diseases, infectious diseases, and endemic diseases among students;

　　(3) Provide technical guidance to school health work in the region;

　　(4) Carry out school health services.

　　Article 27 Stationery, entertainment utensils and health care articles used by students must comply with relevant national health standards.

Chapter IV: Supervision of school health work

　　Article 28 The administrative departments of health at or above the county level shall exercise supervisory authority over school health work. Its responsibilities are:

　　(1) Implement health supervision on the site selection and design of new, reconstructed and expanded school buildings;

　　(2) Carry out health supervision of the school's health and prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in areas such as learning, living, labor, environment, and food;

　　(3) Implement health supervision of stationery, entertainment utensils, and health care products used by students.

　　The administrative department of health under the State Council may entrust the competent health institutions of other relevant departments of the State Council to exercise the authority of school health supervision within the system with respect to the duties listed in items (1) and (2) of the preceding paragraph.

　　Article 29: Institutions exercising the power of school health supervision shall establish school health supervisors, who shall be appointed by the health administrative departments at or above the provincial level and issued with school health supervisor certificates.

　　School health supervisors perform school health supervision tasks assigned by health administrative departments or other health authorities of relevant departments.

　　Article 30: School health supervisors shall present their certificates when performing their duties.

　　When conducting health supervision, school health supervisors have the right to consult information related to health supervision and collect information related to health supervision, and the supervised units or individuals shall cooperate. School health supervisors are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the information and information they possess.

Chapter V: Rewards and Punishments

　　Article 31: All levels of education and health administrative departments and schools shall give commendations and awards to units or individuals that have made outstanding achievements in school health work.

　　Article 32 Where the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 6 of these Regulations are violated by constructing, reconstructing or expanding school buildings without the permission of the administrative department of health, the administrative department of health shall give a warning to the directly responsible unit or individual and order it to stop construction or reconstruct it within a time limit.

　　Article 33 Where the provisions of Paragraph 1, Article 7 and Article 10 of Article 6 of these Regulations are violated, the administrative department of health shall give a warning to the directly responsible unit or individual and order it to make improvements within a time limit. where the circumstances are serious, it may be recommended that the administrative departments for education give administrative sanctions at the same time.

　　Article 34: Where the provisions of Article 11 of these Regulations are violated, causing harm to students' health, the administrative department of health shall give a warning to the directly responsible unit or individual and order it to make improvements within a set period of time.

　　Article 35 Where the provisions of Article 27 of these Regulations are violated, the administrative department of health shall give a warning to the directly responsible unit or individual. If the circumstances are serious, they may work with the administrative department for industry and commerce to confiscate the items that do not meet the relevant national health standards and impose a fine of not more than twice the amount of the illegal gains.

　　Article 36: Where school health supervisors are refused or obstructed from carrying out health supervision in accordance with these Regulations, the administrative department of health shall give a warning to the directly responsible unit or individual. where the circumstances are serious, it may be recommended that the administrative department for education give an administrative sanction or impose a fine of up to 200 RMB.

　　Article 37: Where parties are dissatisfied with an administrative punishment of confiscation or fine, they may, within 15 days of receiving the written punishment decision, apply for reconsideration to the organ at the level above the organ that made the punishment decision, and may also directly file a lawsuit with the people's court. Those who are dissatisfied with the reconsideration decision may file a lawsuit with the people's court within 15 days of receiving the reconsideration decision. Where a decision to impose a fine is not performed and no prosecution is made within the time limit, the organ that made the penalty decision is to apply to the people's court for compulsory enforcement.

Chapter VI: Supplementary Provisions

　　Article 38: Measures for the supervision of school health and school health standards are to be formulated by the Ministry of Health in conjunction with the State Education Commission.

　　Article 39: Where the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 6 and Article 7 of these Regulations cannot be fully applied to impoverished counties, the administrative departments for education and health of the province or autonomous region where they are located may formulate alternative provisions. Adapted provisions shall be submitted to the State Education Commission and the Ministry of Health for the record.

　　Article 40: The State Education Commission and the Ministry of Health are responsible for the interpretation of these Regulations.

　　Article 41: These Regulations take effect on the date of promulgation. The "Interim Regulations on Health Work in Primary and Secondary Schools (Draft)" promulgated by the former Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health on December 6, 1979 and the "Interim Regulations on Health Work in Institutions of Higher Education (Draft)" promulgated on August 26, 1980 shall be repealed at the same time.