Dear Barbara:
The Chinese central government
decided to implement the Rural Compulsory Education Students Nutrition
Improvement Program in the Poor Western Regions in October 2011. This program
provides dietary subsidy of 3 RMB Yuan per person per day for 26 million Primary
and secondary students, therefore, the central government has allocated 16
billion RMB Yuan (about 2.54 billion US Dollar). The meals consist of a complete
lunch, or supplementary of milk, eggs. This program creates favorable conditions
for the national school milk program expansion to the primary and secondary
schools in poor areas. The daily supply capacity of school milk has reached 8.4
million servings in 2011, an increase of 51 percent over the last year.
The Rural Compulsory Education
Students Nutrition Improvement Program expands fully in 2012 so that more poor
students can drink milk. At present, Mengniu Dairy Group has supplied over five
million servings per day, and among them, more than about one-third for poor
students. This shows a new opportunity to the Chinese national school milk
program, and will provide school milk for poor students who need more
nutritional support.
The Chinese national school milk
program
has been implemented for 12 years, and paid attention and supported by the
Chinese government, as well as helped from FAO and international experiences
exchange. For that, I’m looking forward to early planning the world school milk
conference from FAO.
Best
regards,
Professor
Jianping Jiang,
Director
of the
July,
29th, 2012
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