About 53.6 percent of Chinese children and minors suffered from myopia last year, 0.9 percentage points higher than a year ago, and the incidence rises with age, experts told a myopia prevention and control conference with the participation of teachers and officials from over 80 schools in Shanghai on Thursday. The incidence among Chinese children aged 6 is 14.5 percent, while it climbs to 36 percent among primary school students, 71.6 percent for middle school students and 81 percent for those in high school.

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