According to the Research Report on the 10-year Development of Chinese Children (1999-2010) from China Youth and Children Research Center, the time students at primary and middle schools spend sleeping has decreased over the past 10 years.
Around 80 percent of students are not getting enough sleep, with heavy homework demands being the main reason, said the report, which interviewed more than 5,000 students from 184 schools in 10 provinces and regions on the Chinese mainland.
The average sleeping time for primary and high school students was seven hours and 37 minutes a day in 2010, one hour and 23 minutes less than the national standard of nine hours a day. It was also down one hour and 22 minutes from the figure recorded in 2005.
More than 78.1 percent of students sleep less than nine hours a day. The figure increased by 32.4 percent when compared with the data recorded in 2005.
Even during weekends, the average sleeping time for students was seven hours and 49 minutes — one hour and 11 minutes less than the national standard, and one hour and 47 minutes less than the figure reached in 2005.
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