Medium - and Long-Term Youth Development Plan (2016-2025)

Strengthen mental health education and services for young people. We should strengthen humanistic care and psychological counseling for young people, guide them to be self-confident, rational, peaceful and positive, and cultivate good psychological quality and will quality. To promote the harmonious development of the body and mind of young people, and guide them to properly handle the relations between individuals and others, between individuals and groups, and between individuals and society. We should strengthen the research, control and guidance on the social mentality and group emotions of different youth groups, guide them to form reasonable expectations, and take the initiative to prevent and resolve group social risks. Strengthen the publicity and popularization of mental health knowledge among young people and raise the awareness rate of mental health. We will support the building of professional psychological counseling institutions and social organizations for young people at all levels, and vigorously train professionals in psychological counseling for young people. We should focus on mental health education in schools, set up mental health counseling rooms in colleges and universities, middle schools and vocational schools, and provide full-time mental health education teachers in schools where conditions permit. To construct and improve the early warning and intervention mechanism of young people at high risk of psychological problems. We should strengthen prevention at the source, pay attention to the research and analysis of the causes of youth mental health problems, timely identify young people at high risk of mental problems, and take effective measures to solve or relieve the pressure of young people in their studies, careers, life and emotions.

Youth health

Development goals: 

To continuously improve the nutritional health and physical health of young people, with the rate of reaching the standard of physical health of young people not less than 90%; Effectively control the incidence of youth mental health problems, youth mental health counseling and services have been greatly improved; Leading young people to actively participate in the building of a healthy China.

Development Measures:

1. Improve the physical health of young people. We will implement the national fitness program, strictly implement the National Standards for Physical Exercise and the National Standards for Students' Physical Health, and strengthen the hard constraints on physical health indicators in school education. We will strengthen physical education work in schools, improve the national physical education and health curriculum standards, give play to the guiding role of the school physical education assessment and evaluation system, and ensure that physical education classes and extracurricular exercise time are implemented. We will organize young people to participate extensively in the national fitness campaign, develop a love of sports, improve their physical fitness, master sports skills and develop the habit of lifelong exercise. In urban and rural communities, we will build more sports facilities and places adapted to the characteristics of young people and equip them with adequate sports equipment so that young people can enjoy fitness activities at their convenience. We will encourage and support the development of youth sports social organizations and encourage more young people to develop sports interests and hobbies.

2. Strengthen mental health education and services for young people. We should strengthen humanistic care and psychological counseling for young people, guide them to be self-confident, rational, peaceful and positive, and cultivate good psychological quality and will quality. To promote the harmonious development of the body and mind of young people, and guide them to properly handle the relations between individuals and others, between individuals and groups, and between individuals and society. We should strengthen the research, control and guidance on the social mentality and group emotions of different youth groups, guide them to form reasonable expectations, and take the initiative to prevent and resolve group social risks. Strengthen the publicity and popularization of mental health knowledge among young people and raise the awareness rate of mental health. We will support the building of professional psychological counseling institutions and social organizations for young people at all levels, and vigorously train professionals in psychological counseling for young people. We should focus on mental health education in schools, set up mental health counseling rooms in colleges and universities, middle schools and vocational schools, and provide full-time mental health education teachers in schools where conditions permit. To construct and improve the early warning and intervention mechanism of young people at high risk of psychological problems. We should strengthen prevention at the source, pay attention to the research and analysis of the causes of youth mental health problems, timely identify young people at high risk of mental problems, and take effective measures to solve or relieve the pressure of young people in their studies, careers, life and emotions.

3. Improve the health of all youth groups. Attach importance to professional rehabilitation training for young people with disabilities, and ensure supporting facilities and places. We will address the nutrition and health problems of young students in rural, poor and western areas. Guide college students to "step off the Internet, out of the dormitory, to the playground", develop a healthy and civilized life habits. Prevention and treatment of occupational diseases among young people should be done well to significantly reduce the incidence of occupational diseases among on-the-job young people. We will pay attention to the health status of young migrant workers in cities and carry out health monitoring. Social efforts should be mobilized to provide targeted health services to young people through voluntary services and charitable donations.

4. Strengthen youth health promotion. To compile and publish books on life education to guide young people to respect and love life. Young people are regularly organized to participate in safety drills in public places, and experience education on disaster escape, self-protection from injuries, self-rescue from terrorism and mutual assistance is carried out to enhance their awareness of self-protection and ability to prevent and avoid disasters in response to emergencies. We should advocate a healthy lifestyle among young people, strengthen health education, and improve their health literacy. We will carry out extensive anti-smoking publicity and make young people the main group that supports and consciously bans smoking. Improve the prevention and treatment mechanism of AIDS and venereal diseases, strengthen publicity and education for key youth groups, promote effective intervention measures, and effectively reduce the incidence of AIDS and venereal diseases. We should do a good job in drug control publicity and education, and raise the awareness of young people, especially young students, on drugs and their dangers. We will strengthen supervision of entertainment venues and crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as drug use, drug trafficking, prostitution and whoring.