At 6 a.m., just dawn, the canteen of Wenfeng Primary School in Taoyang Town, Lintao County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province. Accompanied by the crisp breakfast ringtone, the campus was filled with joy and the children walked towards the cafeteria.

At 6 a.m., it was just dawn, and the canteen of Wenfeng Primary School in Taoyang Town, Lintao County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province. Accompanied by the crisp breakfast ringtone, the campus was filled with joy and the children walked towards the cafeteria.

reporter saw in the school cafeteria that the "nutritional meal recipe" of the day was posted on the wall at the door. Breakfast includes milk, eggs, beef soup, staple food, etc.; lunch and dinner include sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, sauerkraut noodles, etc. The teacher accompanied the meal was organizing students to queue up in an orderly manner according to the grade.

is in the kitchen of the canteen. The cooking area, cooking area and storage area are neat and uniform, and the interior is clean, spacious and bright. On the large surveillance screen outside the door, the operation of the entire kitchen is presented in real time and is clear at a glance. The children were eating the "heart-warming rice" with relish, with joy and happiness on their faces.

"The nutritious meals I eat at school are both healthy and nutritious. I am getting better and better in my health and better in my studies. I am also a member of the football team and representing Gansu Province to participate in the Central and Western Youth Football Invitational Tournament." Lu Jiali, a student in Grade 6 (4), said while eating.

Wenfeng Primary School is a township boarding primary school. Since 2012, the school has started to run a canteen to serve nutritious meals, and the meal standards have been continuously improved, allowing boarding students and left-behind children to completely bid farewell to the history of drinking boiled water and eating dry steamed buns at noon. In 2021, Wenfeng Primary School used the provincial construction project of "building dormitories, expanding canteens, increasing degrees and renovating toilets in primary and secondary schools" to strive for 350,000 yuan to repair and renovate the canteen, connect to natural gas , and provide radiant food to 7 surrounding rural schools.

Majiayao School is one of them. Principal Cao Jianhua said happily: "In the past, it was difficult to ensure the supply of beef soup for students. Now Wenfeng Primary School has solved the problem for us. The children have recipes and meat and meat every week, scientific and nutritious, and also have a spirit in class."

"The hot meal not only allows students to eat enough and eat well, but also gives the taste of happiness, laying the foundation for healthy growth." Dang Xiaodong, vice principal of Wenfeng Primary School, said that this move also relieves parents' worries about engaging in production and operation activities and reduces the burden on the family.

Wang Jinfeng, director of the Nutrition Office of Lintao County Education Bureau, introduced that in recent years, the county has achieved the organic integration of scientific combination of nutritious meals and local eating habits by optimizing the catering model, and has fully implemented the catering model of township central school canteens radiating to surrounding village primary schools and teaching points. At present, more than 30,000 children from 245 rural compulsory education schools in the county, including village primary schools, teaching points, etc., can eat fresh, delicious, balanced and steaming nutritious meals at school. Meat has become the "standard" for meals, effectively improving the physical health level of students in rural compulsory education stage.

Wang Jinfeng said that in order to effectively improve the safety and controllability of the food procurement process, bulk food ingredients are uniformly purchased and distributed by the government, ensuring the safety and qualification of food and raw materials entering the campus. At the same time, each school has established diet committees to formulate recipes scientifically and reasonably, publicize recipes every week, and update food varieties to make the types of meals more abundant, meeting the nutritional needs of students in different regions and ages to grow up healthily.

In addition, the county has implemented the "Internet + Open Kitchen and Bright Stove " project in school canteens, and 144 school canteens (kids) have achieved full coverage. The reporter logged into the "Longshang Food Safety" APP to inspect and found that food in and out of the warehouse, food processing operations, etc. were clear at a glance.

Lintao County Jiaoshan Junior High School is a non-boarding independent junior high school built in August 2012. It currently has 61 teaching classes and 3,244 students, all enjoying nutritious breakfast . Zhang Tianxiang is a full-time nutrition meal administrator at the school, responsible for the distribution of nutrition meals for all students in the school. He said: "The nutrition meal improvement plan has truly benefited rural children. The breakfast also has shredded pork soup and beef soup that locals love to eat, which is balanced and has a variety of combinations."

Lintao County Education Bureau Director Long Xiaolin introduced that the county will focus on the nutrition improvement plan to "people's livelihood project", "safe project" and "sunshine project". In the past two years, 104 canteens have been renovated and upgraded, greatly improving the dining environment and dining conditions of students, and implementing the people-friendly policies of the Party and the government, and passing them to every family. The physical health level of rural compulsory education students has been significantly improved. All schools have also included nutrition and health education courses in the school's daily education work plan, focusing on promoting good health Education classes enhance students' nutritional and health awareness and create a strong atmosphere of food safety, nutritional and health education.

Source: China Education Daily

Editing and production: Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission Propaganda Department