The Chinese government will provide a daily nutrition packet for more than one million babies under two in poverty-stricken areas in 2015.
The move is part of a national nutrition program launched by the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) in 2012 to improve nutrition for rural newborns and reduce physical and psychological defects.Infants in rural areas have suffered from anemia and malnutrition. The breast feeding rate is low and the newborns lack intake of trace elements, according to the ACWF's report.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
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