Kids' eye health issues in focus

China's growing number of bespectacled young people has caught the attention of national leaders.

On June 13, the annual National Eye Health Day, Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan ordered schools and health departments to do more to prevent shortsightedness among young people.

Sun, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the central authorities have crafted measures to deal with this specific problem and strict enforcement at local levels is now needed.