Increasing physical education for people between three and 18 years old is among activities Hanoi will promote to improve locals' average height (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi plans to spend more than 363billion VND (15.5 million USD) on activities to help raise local people’saverage height between 2018 and 2025.
The capital city has issued a plan to developHanoians’ physical strength and height until 2030, aiming to improve thequality of local human resources.
The plan looks to help local young people havestable height increase so that at the age of 18, male youth can have averageheight of 167.5cm by 2025 and 169cm by 2030, while females will be 156.5cm and158cm tall, respectively.
The national averages are expected at 168.5cmamong males and 157.5cm among females by 2030.
To that end, Hanoi is going to boostcommunications to raise public awareness, promote height increasing nutritionalregimes, and step up physical education for people between three and 18 yearsold.
In 2017, the Hanoi Sub-department of Populationand Family Planning revealed the outcomes of a study calculating average heightof 1,500 people aged six and above in four districts. It showed that after 10 years,Hanoians’ height rose by 2 – 3cm, reaching 166cm for men and 155cm for women.
A survey in 2010 indicated that the averageheight of Vietnamese grew by only 4cm in 35 years.
In 2015, Vietnamese men were 164.4cm tall inaverage and women, 153.4cm, 15.4cm and 10.3cm shorter than the global averages,respectively.-VNA
A master plan to develop the physical strength and height of Vietnamese people in the 2011-30 period is expected to gradually enhance the quality and longevity of the Vietnamese people.
The average height of Hanoians is 2-3 cm taller than 10 years ago, according to head of the Hanoi Department of Population and Family Planning Nguyen Dinh Lan.
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Increasing physical education for people between three and 18 years old is among activities Hanoi will promote to improve locals' average height (Photo: VNA) 
