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Huang Xiaojun, Mayor of Houma City, Shanxi Province, took the flag of the host city of the “Ten Thousand Steps” from Yan Jun, Deputy Secretary of the China CDC Party Committee and secretary of the Disciplinary Committee. Photo courtesy by CDC
China News Service, Beijing, November 9 At present, it has become a way of life for more and more people to complete 10,000 steps a day. The Fifth “Ten Thousand Steps with Your Date” Hiking Promotion Contest, organized by the CDC China Center for Chronic Diseases, recently concluded. Since August of this year, more than 200,000 people have participated. Since the event’s launch in 2016, it has covered nearly 40% of the counties and districts (1,098 counties and districts) across the country, with more than 1 million visitors. The project is organically integrated with the prevention and control of chronic diseases, and a health database of the occupational population based on the march is established.
The summary meeting of the 5th “Ten Thousand Steps” Hiking Inspiration Contest and the 6th Host City Selection Meeting were recently held in Huairou District, Beijing. The competition is based on the “action generation” principle of the “stage change theory” of health behavior and fully combines the characteristics of a strong organization and fragmented physical activity of the professional population to encourage contestants to complete 10,000 steps a day for 100 days. On the day of the recap meeting, Houma City, Shanxi Province, after the competition, became the host city for the sixth competition in 2021.
Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the Office of Disease Control of the National Health Commission, said in a video on the front line of epidemic prevention and control that walking is the simplest, most effective and most lifestyle-oriented exercise. The special action is closely integrated with the construction of a demonstration zone for the prevention and comprehensive control of chronic diseases, creatively playing the advantages of functional communities, fully mobilizing social forces to participate and actively respond to the important factor health risk of “lack of physical activity”, which is reflected well before the pass. The concept of migration and prevention is the organic combination of massive physical fitness and prevention and control of chronic diseases.
According to Yan Jun, undersecretary of the Party Committee and secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, despite the impact of the new corona epidemic, from last year’s Laiwu in Shandong to Huairou in This year in Beijing, the scale of the “Ten Thousand Steps with Promises” contest is still expanding and has become a Chinese Characteristics Chronic Disease Intervention Practice Brand Project. In the continuous exploration of the last five years, the “Ten thousand steps with contract” contest has been developed to cover thousands of counties and districts with the participation of millions of people. To meet the epidemic prevention and control requirements, this year’s competition took full advantage of the Internet and information technology, making the most of outdoor walking exercises to reduce gatherings, delight the body and the mind and promote immunity. Competition has strengthened online registration and interaction By establishing two schedules and a series of “ten thousand steps in the cloud” online activities, all regions can flexibly organize the time and scale of participation according to the different situations of prevention and control of epidemics.
Wu Jing, director of the Center for Chronic Diseases at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, noted that insufficient physical activity is a major risk factor for chronic diseases. Walking is suitable for a wide range of people, high safety and long-term adherence to exercise. It has a very significant effect on the prevention and control of chronic diseases. effect. To this end, in 2015, the CDC China Center for Chronic Diseases organized 2,760 people to carry out “Strong Incentive to Walk” interventions for groups of Chinese professionals in 22 “national comprehensive prevention and control demonstration areas. of chronic diseases “in 21 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) throughout the country. The research project has explored an effective “strike incentive” intervention model for chronic diseases with Chinese characteristics, suitable for large-scale promotion among professional groups.
Under the leadership of the CDC’s National Health Commission, the China Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Chronic Diseases Center has organized five consecutive “Ten Thousand Steps With Your Date” walking incentive competitions throughout the country, and this intervention model has spread to almost 40% throughout the country. Counties and districts (1,098 counties and districts), more than 1 million people participated directly. The project has organically integrated the prevention and control of chronic diseases and has established a health database of the occupational population based on the march. At present, it has accumulated more than 1 billion data on professional gait in China and nearly 600,000 comprehensive data on occupational population health indices. There is a positive relationship between sport walking and blood pressure, blood sugar, body fat, body weight, and body fat rate, and a health promotion model with Chinese characteristics has been explored. (End up)
