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分享一篇文章： On Monday, most Chinese newspapers and news websites carried a photograph of Premier Wen Jiabao sitting in a classroom in a high school in Beijing, listening attentively to the teacher and noting down what the teacher said. The photograph was on Friday, when he was investigating into China's schools. While I was moved because of the concern shown by the government leader for the education of our younger generation, I was somewhat worried over what I saw in the picture. Of the five boys sitting in the front rows before the premier, four were wearing glasses. They were bent over their desks writing with their eyes just a few inches from the notebooks. I couldn't help worry that their eyesight would worsen soon. Ironically, the 67-year-old premier sat with his back perfectly straight - in a standard posture as is required in the Basic Knowledge and Requirements for the Protection of Eyesight of Primary and Middle School Students, issued by the Ministry of Education. Shortsightedness is alarmingly serious among Chinese students. A recent survey shows the incidence of myopia is 22.78 percent among primary school pupils, and 55.22 percent and a whopping 76.74 percent among high school and college students. Myopia-related cases among all Chinese youths has reached a high of 60 percent, second only to that in Japan, according to the latest survey, conducted jointly by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health. Twenty years ago, it was only about 30 percent. | 
