According to a study by Peking University, half of China's population will have myopia by 2020, and 70 million of them will have medium or high degrees of myopia.

 

北京大学的一项研究显示，2020年一半的中国人将会近视，其中有7000万人将会中高度近视。

 

As Tuesday marks Eye Care Day in China, doctors are trying to encourage young people to spend more time outside to help protect their eyesight.

 

The Shanxi Eye Hospital in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, is one of the country's top eye hospitals. It has seen a growing number of teenagers with myopia.

 

Jia Ding, chief ophthalmologist of the Optical¹ Department at Shanxi Eye Hospital, said the hospital used to have about six hundred patients a day. Now they sometimes have a thousand a day, and over 80 percent of the patients are young students. She also said the number of young children with myopia continues to grow.

 

A parent at the hospital said his daughter is only eight years old, but her myopia is already over 200 degrees, and he feels quite concerned that her daughter’s myopia will be even worse in the future.

 

Jia pointed² out that besides increasing academic pressure, many children also frequently use computers and cell phones now. Many schools even make students use tablet³ computers in classes. She emphasized⁴ that rays from these electronic devices⁵ are very bad for the eyes.

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