Adolescent mental health is a matter for the lycans and for nation-building and national renewal. The secretary-general of xi has always attached great importance to the physical and mental health of students, emphasizing the promotion of the physical, mental and spiritual health of minors and the strengthening of sports and mental health among adolescents。
With rapid economic and social development, the changing environment in which students grow and their mental health problems take on new characteristics. During the two sessions of the national assembly in 2025, a number of delegates focused on the psychological issues of adolescents and made a number of recommendations. The proposal for a system of mental health education services for adolescents was identified by the standing committee of the national people's congress as a priority oversight recommendation for 2025, to be led by the ministry of education。
From research to discussions, from policy to results, the ministry of education has responded positively to the committee's recommendations, and a “care” initiative has been carried out throughout the country to safeguard the healthy development of adolescents。
Voices: breaking the mechanism short behind pain point
Just stick to the point and find the pain. During the two national conferences in 2025, the representatives suggested that the current system of mental health services for adolescents should be more structured。
The law firm of man leigh, a representative of the national people's congress and vice-president of the all-china bar association, has served a number of primary and secondary schools on a perennial basis, and the healthy growth of students has been a subject of concern to him. In the study, manli found, on the one hand, that there are still gaps in the curriculum of mental health education for adolescents in many schools, that there are insufficient professional staff and that many children suffer from psychological distress, and, on the other hand, that parents are not sufficiently aware of mental health and that it is easy to classify the child's psychological problems as “retrogressive periods” and so on。
With regard to the short curriculum for family education, the representative suggested the creation of a “multi-subject, multi-dimensional” family education guidance system, which would combine the establishment of family education guidance services covering both rural and urban areas and provide parents with systematic mental health training。
“the cases we have gathered show that many children with psychological problems, after systematic hospital consultations and a series of interventional trainings, are well recovered and can return to normal school. It is deeply regrettable that some children are unable to study and are reluctant to enter society if the intervention is not timely and left open to problems.” the national people's congress, the deputy headmaster of the zongxi high secondary school of the guangxi autonomous region, which has been teaching education at the border for more than 20 years, has indicated that it is urgent to complete the medical compacts。
In 2025, during the two national conferences, huang hua chun representatives presented the recommendations for accelerated medical integration for adolescent mental health development, recommending the establishment of a digital mental health screening monitoring platform and the creation of mental health records for students. At the same time, psychological specialists and psychotherapy specialists are organized to train school psychologists and to establish referral “green corridors” to guarantee students access to specialized medical services。
“to wait for psychological problems to emerge, to heal the symptoms, not the symptoms, to catch the front end, to heal the disease.” the national people's congress, vice-chancellor of secondary school no. 3 of cebu county, anhui province, has recommended that the reform of the teaching system should be further advanced, that the concept of education should be transformed, that of talent should be reduced and that learning should be reduced to a “portrait”。
The representative of the national people's congress and director of the national centre for clinical medical research on children's health and diseases, li chow, recommended strengthening the system of mental health care services for children in difficult circumstances and children left behind. The relevant national ministries have increased their interaction of information on children in difficult circumstances and on child-care services for children left behind, and have promoted their inclusion at the provincial and district levels in financial regularization support guarantees。
Echo: promoting the “health first” concept
In october 2025, the ministry of education introduced the ten measures to further enhance mental health work for primary and secondary school students. Ten specific measures have been adopted to address the salient mental health problems and milestones of primary and secondary school students, with the aim of creating a “small cut” as a breakthrough。
“hwang representative, your proposal has been accepted.” after the publication of the “ten measures”, the ministry of education staff specifically transmitted the document to huang huachun's representative, informing her that the proposals for early warning and intervention mechanisms, referral, etc., were reflected in the document, which made her proud that “as a representative of the human being, the proposal was translated into policy, genuine participation in the management of state affairs and strengthened my confidence in continuous research and advice”。
Behind the “ten measures” is the insights of the representative of the commission. For example, in response to the concerns expressed by representatives such as huey fenglian, the document proposes measures such as enhanced job management, regulation of examination management, promotion of reforms in the mid-level examination, alleviation of student stress from the source, etc., and in relation to the mental health problems of special groups of students of concern to delegates such as liqiu, the document proposes the creation of a card for special groups of students, such as children left behind, mobile children, orphans, etc., and the strengthening of mental health guidance through a “life-long approach”。
In fact, in moving forward, the ministry of education has maintained close communication with the representative committee, has fully shared relevant issues and has provided written responses。
“since hosting, ministry of education staff have not only been able to communicate with me on a number of occasions, but have also come to yunnan to study in the field, to exchange views with me face to face and to discuss them in depth.”。
In response to the representative's recommendation to improve the family education guidance system, the ministry of education referred to the strengthening of the family education guidance system in family schools, as well as through home visits and classes for parents。
“it is in this process that i am most impressed by this `problem-free' approach. Rather than simply following procedures and responding, they truly use the delegates ' recommendations as an important reference for improving their work and policies. This interaction gives me a real sense that the representative's proposal is not a one-way mission, but a two-way popular response.” the representative of alley said。
In order to fully incorporate the views of the representatives, last year the ministry of education also organized a seminar on strengthening the mental health of students, which invited four representatives of the national people's congress, who made recommendations with emphasis, together with the national people's congress committee on education, science, culture and health, the standing committee's representative working committee and 17 heads of relevant ministries. At that meeting, progress was reported and a consensus was reached on a “multi-stakeholder approach”。
Consensus: a well-established network of people working with each other
“the promotion of the physical and mental health of students is by no means a task that schools can perform independently. Over the past year, it has become clear to me that the pace of building a system of mental health services for adolescents has accelerated.” in the words of 10,000 delegates, the voices of a number of delegates were shared。
All over the country, schools in different parts of the country are engaged in the development of innovative approaches to local identity, which together safeguard the beautiful minds of young people。
In 2025, hunan took the lead at the national provincial level in developing a system of mental health work for students in the form of legislation, introducing the hunan province regulations for the promotion of mental health for students, and promoting the transition from “soft requirements” to “hard responsibilities”。
Tianjin has taken the lead throughout the country in setting up an integrated provincial mental health education platform, and 100 per cent of all primary and secondary schools in the city have established school-level psychological centres。
The city of chongqing launched a platform for mental health services for teachers and students, known as the "euy-students " , which is designed for the mental health education and services of primary and secondary school students in chongqing city and which integrates the five core functions of intelligence assessment, early warning interventions, counselling services, resource provision and data analysis。
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Protecting the minds of young people has been given new responsibilities by all parties involved in society. After more than a year of research, the commission was given fresh thought。
The representative noted that, since last year, the education sector, in conjunction with the health department, had organized a number of training sessions for teachers of psychology and doctors of psychiatric hospitals. “professional literacy has increased significantly when teachers who participated in the training, who in the past only knew depression and anxiety, now recognize problems such as sleep disorders, social disorders, eating disorders, etc.”
At this year's two national conferences, huang hua chun representatives will continue to focus on adolescent mental health and recommend further strengthening of medical integration and inclusion of mental health check-ups in regular check-ups for primary and secondary school students so that early detection and early intervention can take place。
The representative recommended that the state allocate funds for the construction of diversified psychological counselling units at different levels in schools, employing specialized psychological counsellors, and establish open channels of communication at home to provide timely feedback to students at home。
In the study, the representative also identified a more hidden but focused problem of drug abuse. Some young people seek short “freedom” through addictive drugs because psychological distress, such as anxiety and loneliness, is not promptly identified and directed. “adolescents are at a critical stage in their physical and mental development, and once they are involved in substance abuse, this will cause irreversible damage to their educational future and even to their way of life. Multisectoral efforts to improve drug control and reduce the risk of drug abuse among young people have been the focus of my attention this year
