Students not getting enough sleep

我国中小学生睡眠不足

Lack of sleep among children and teenagers in China has worsened in the past decade, with more than 80 percent getting insufficient sleep on school days, a rep ort released on Monday said. Chinese youngsters snoozed an average of 7.8 hours a night on school days last year, 20 minutes less than in 2009, according to the report from the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Psychology.

3月1日，中国科学院心理研究所发布的一份报告显示，过去十年来，中国儿童和青少年睡眠不足现象日趋严重，80%以上的儿童上学日睡眠不足。2020年青少年在上学日的平均睡眠时长为7.8小时，比2009年降低0.3小时。

Researchers surveyed more than 15,800 students from Henan, Hebei and Guangdong provinces from April to July, asking them what time they went to bed and woke up on days when they went to school.

研究人员从4月到7月对河南、河北、广东三省的1.58万多名学生进行了调查，询问他们在上学日睡觉和起床的时间点。

Only 46.4 percent slept for at least 8 hours, compared with 47.4 percent in 2009, the report said.

报告显示，只有46.4%的学生睡眠时长在8小时及以上，而2009年这一比例为47.4%。

According to an action plan laying out measures to be taken from 2019 to 2030 to promote the health of citizens, primary school students are recommended to get a minimum of 10 hours' sleep a night. Nine hours is recommended for junior high school students and 8 hours for senior high school students.

为促进公民健康，《健康中国行动（2019—2030年）》提倡，小学生每天睡眠时间不少于10小时，初中生不少于9小时，高中生不少于8小时。

By those standards, more than 95 percent of students in primary schools, nearly 91 percent of those in junior high schools and 84 percent of students in senior high schools do not get enough sleep on school days, heightening the risk of them developing cognitive, mental and physical health problems.

按照这些标准，超过95%的小学生、近91%的初中生和84%的高中生在上学日的睡眠时长未达标，这增加了他们出现认知、心理和身体健康问题的风险。