Authorities eye ways to prevent childhood nearsightedness

World Health Organization report says China has the world's highest rate of adolescent myopia. Zhao Xinying reports.

Like many nearsighted people, the first thing Chen Xu does when she wakes in the morning is grab her glasses and put them on.

Other people might say the first thing should be to dress or brush her teeth, but Chen disagrees. She doesn't want her first view of the world every morning to be blurred.