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China Focuses on Solving Myopia Epidemic

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Jan 27, 2020
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Fully 72% of China’s 12- to 14-year-olds have myopia, up from 58% in 2010. Officials are starting to worry that military recruiting will suffer because not enough people will be able to meet the vision requirements.

—The Economist

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