Primary school students eating free lunch provided by the school feeding project, seen here on November 7, 2018, in Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. [Photo/VCG] BEIJING - China has created a special committee to implement the country's national nutrition plan, according to the National Health Commission (NHC). Jointly established by NHC and 17 other government departments to coordinate and advance nutrition and health related work, the national nutrition and health committee held its inaugural meeting on Feb. 28 in Beijing, said a source of the NHC. During the meeting, the committee adopted the regulation on its work and the main tasks for 2019 on the national nutrition plan. Among the key jobs are improving food nutrition and health standards that build upon food safety, and establishing subcommittees at local levels to organize nutrition education and training, to conduct pilot programs and spread scientific knowledge in this regard. Innovation will also be encouraged in the efforts, while nutrition intervention will be introduced in the campaign to battle poverty. The national nutrition plan (2017-2030) was released by the General Office of the State Council in July 2017, with the goal of raising awareness of nutrition among the Chinese people, reducing obesity and anemia among students. silicone wristbands customcustomized friendship bracelets onlinehow to do rubber band braceletscustom poker braceletmiscarriage awareness silicone bracelets
A park in Xining in Qinghai province. [Photo/VCG] XINING - Chinese scientists have successfully grown peanuts in Northwest China's high-altitude Qinghai province for the first time, local authorities said. In a demonstrative project hosted by the Qinghai Academy of Agriculture and Foresty Sciences, researchers have been conducting trial planting of several crops including ginger and peanuts since March. Five peanut varieties were tested to pick out the best. The peanuts are growing well with few diseases and pests, which proves that peanut planting is possible in greenhouses on the Qinghai plateau, said Huang Pingui, deputy-director with husbandry and poverty relief and development bureau of Huangzhong County. The yield per plant is expected to be between 220 and 350 grams, making the peanut yield per mu (about 0.07 hectares) reach at least 500 kilograms, Huang added. As a warm-weather plant, peanuts usually require a long, hot growing season and loose sandy soil to develop in. The trial success of peanut planting marks a breakthrough in agriculture in the barren land of Qinghai province. It offers the farmers another option in greenhouse vegetable planting, and optimizes the structure of the vegetable industry in the region, the local official said.
