6th national campaign for fitness underway

China has launched its sixth national physical fitness monitoring campaign to assess citizens' health and help guide public fitness policies.

The initiative, held every five years, is jointly organized by the General Administration of Sport, the Ministry of Education and seven other departments. It is currently underway across 31 provincial-level regions and includes 1,877 sampling points. Data will be collected from 248,000 people age 3 to 79 via questionnaires and physical tests in three categories: children, adults and seniors.

Feng Qiang, an official with the General Administration of Sport, told China Central Television that for the first time, this year's campaign will feature the real-time uploading of data to a national platform to ensure authenticity.