--FILE--étudiants passer des cordes sur le terrain de jeu pendant une leçon de sport à l'école primaire de la ville de Qinhuangdao, province du Hebei, Chine du nord 13 mars 20
--FILE--Students skip ropes on the playground during a sports lesson at a primary school in Qinhuangdao city, north Chinas Hebei province, 13 March 2015. The Ministry of Education has taken steps to ensure students' safety during sports lesson, but reducing hours spent on sport is not an option. A regulation on campus sports injuries released Thursday (28 May 2015) told schools to follow national quality standards when selecting sports apparatus and to keep records of purchases and use of sports venues for safety backtracking. While every school should have their own emergency procedures, education authorities must guide and supervise their safety routine, a key factor in school evaluation. Schools must arrange physical checks and keep health profiles on students. Those unfit for exercise should be exempt from sports activities or receive less. Reducing sports activities in terms of both time and intensity, which in some cases amounts sport-free curriculums, is a common practice, especially at elementary and middle schools. Physical education has long been marginalized in China, and improvements only came recently as the decline in young people's health alarmed the nation.
