Zhang X, Huang Z
Coordinating Study Group on the Physical Growth and Development of Children, Capital Institute of Paediatrics, Beijing, China.
Ann Hum Biol. 1988 Jul-Aug;15(4):289-305. doi: 10.1080/03014468800009761.
To evaluate the normal physical growth and development of Chinese children and to compare the nutritional status of today with that of ten years ago, a second national cross-sectional growth survey was undertaken in the same urban and suburban rural areas of nine main cities in China in 1985 as in 1975. In this survey 152,874 boys and girls from birth to age 7.0 years were measured for weight, height, sitting height, and chest, head and upper arm circumferences. Compared with the results in 1975, the condition of growth and development of children for both boys and girls from urban or suburban rural areas has been relatively much improved. Average weight and height had increased in the past 10 years by 0.40 kg and 1.8 cm respectively, in 6-7-year-old children. The greater part of the increase in height has been due to increase in leg length. The urban-rural difference in stature has become smaller, as the increase has been greater in rural areas. The data from this survey can be used as a new growth standard for Chinese children.
为评估中国儿童的正常身体生长发育情况，并比较当今与十年前的营养状况，1985年在中国九个主要城市的相同城区和郊区农村地区开展了第二次全国性横断面生长发育调查，如同1975年那样。在此次调查中，对152,874名从出生到7.0岁的男孩和女孩测量了体重、身高、坐高以及胸围、头围和上臂围。与1975年的结果相比，城区和郊区农村地区男孩和女孩的生长发育状况都有了较大改善。在6至7岁儿童中，过去10年平均体重增加了0.40千克，平均身高增加了1.8厘米。身高增加的大部分原因是腿长增加。城乡身高差异变小了，因为农村地区的增长幅度更大。此次调查的数据可作为中国儿童新的生长发育标准。
