According to the evening of February 11th, starting from the spring semester of 2025, the 10-minute break between primary schools in Guangzhou will be adjusted to 15 minutes, and the 10-minute break between junior high school afternoon is adjusted to 15 minutes. During breaks, I no longer have to hurry to pick up water, go to the bathroom, or look for playmates. For the precious and sufficient 15-minute break time, schools and students should make reasonable arrangements and make effective use of it. They should go out of the classroom, embrace the sunshine, and have fun activities, and "having fun".
It is reported that from the spring semester of 2025 to before the autumn semester, the proportion of schools in compulsory education schools in various districts in Guangzhou pilot implementation of one physical education class every day is no less than 30%. Starting from the fall semester of 2025, 100% of the city’s compulsory education schools will implement one physical education class every day; boarding schools are encouraged to coordinate the arrangement of daily comprehensive sports activities based on actual conditions. High school (secondary vocational schools) promote 3-5 physical education classes per week, and schools with conditions pilot one physical education class per day, and implement the requirement that the daily comprehensive physical activity time is not less than 2 hours. Students can stretch their bodies and enjoy their bodies and mind in physical education classes every day.
The Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau will combine the characteristics of students in different stages and based on students' interests and hobbies, make full use of the precious 15 minutes to formulate micro-leisure sports activities guidelines, recommend more scientific, diverse and exciting sports activities to each district and school, and improve the quality and efficiency of micro-leisures during recess. If students, teachers and parents have good ideas and ideas, they can also propose good content forms of micro-movement between recesses to the school teachers so that there are activities you like during recesses. Finally, all districts and schools need to adjust the education and teaching order in a timely manner and adjust the teacher's work arrangements in a timely manner. In particular, teachers must control the time of each class, do not delay classes, do not squeeze out time during class, and do not restrict students' freedom during class.
The Paper noticed that recently, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Education issued the "Notice on Ensuring that the Daily Comprehensive Sports Activities of Primary and Secondary School Students shall not be less than two hours", effectively ensuring that the Daily Comprehensive Sports Activities of Primary and Secondary School Students shall not be less than two hours, and this requirement will be fully implemented starting from the spring semester of this year. Among them, primary and secondary schools in the Pearl River Delta region will fully implement one physical education class every day in the fall semester of 2025; the proportion of schools in the east and west Guangdong regions will implement one physical education class every day in the fall semester of 2025 will not be less than 50%, and will fully implement it in the fall semester of 2026. The notice also clearly states that the 15-minute break system should be explored, and it is strictly forbidden to "drag the class" or squeeze out students' time during breaking in other ways, and no excuses should be used to restrict students' freedom of activity during breaking.
The Paper noticed that since 2024, many places across the country have made adjustments: the interval between primary and secondary schools has been extended from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.
Public information shows that starting from the fall semester of 2024, compulsory education schools in Beijing will make overall overall optimization of the break arrangement, and in principle, implement the 15-minute break time to provide a more relaxed break time, guide teachers and students to go out of the classroom, go outdoors, and go into the sunshine, enjoy a healthier and more vibrant campus life, and promote the healthy development of students' physical and mental health.
In September 2024, the Xinwu District Education Bureau of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province announced that starting from this fall semester, Xinwu District Compulsory Education School will fully implement 15 minutes of recess and 1 physical education class every day, fully ensuring that students will exercise at least 100 minutes on campus every day, allowing students to walk out of the classroom, outdoors, and into the sunshine, and enjoy a healthier and more energetic campus life.
In September 2024, the Fujian Provincial Department of Education issued the "Notice on Further Optimizing the Management of Intercessor Activities to Promote the Healthy Growth of Primary and Secondary School Students", which clearly stated that intercessor Activities should generally be at least 10 minutes, and schools are encouraged to appropriately extend the intercessor Activities time. Optimizing the time between classes and extending the 10 minutes between classes to 15 minutes has been implemented in Yuying Central Primary School for 6 years and has achieved good results.
In January 2025, the Hunan Provincial Department of Education issued the "Notice on Optimizing the Rest Time of Students in Compulsory Education Schools in Our Province", stating that starting from the spring semester of 2025, compulsory education schools across the province will implement the 15-minute recess duration in principle, ensuring the 30-minute recess duration and two eye exercises (including during recess) every day, aiming to implement the educational concept of students' health first and promote the healthy development of students' physical and mental health.
At the Zhengzhou Municipal Education Work Conference in Henan Province held on January 20, 2025, the Zhengzhou Municipal Education Bureau stated that in 2025, the city will implement the plan for students' physical fitness, mental health, aesthetic education infiltrating, and labor habit development, and encourage and promote the implementation of 10 minutes of recess in the compulsory education stage to 15 minutes, ensuring that primary and secondary school students have a comprehensive physical activity time of no less than 2 hours per day.
In January 2025, the Foshan Municipal Education Bureau of Guangdong issued the "Notice of the Foshan Municipal Education Bureau on Further Strengthening the Work of Reducing the Burdens and Improving Quality and Efficiency of Compulsory Education Schools", which includes extending the time between compulsory education schools to 15 minutes from the spring semester of 2025.
In February 2025, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education stated that starting from the spring semester of 2025, Zhejiang will encourage schools in various places to extend the time between recesses from 10 minutes to 15 minutes.
It is worth mentioning that on September 26, 2024, the State Information Office held a series of thematic press conferences on "Promoting High-Quality Development". Regarding some regions increasing the time for breaks between primary and secondary schools from 10 minutes to 15 minutes in the new semester, Wang Jiayi, Vice Minister of Education, said at the meeting that the implementation of the student physical fitness plan, mental health promotion actions, etc., ensure that the comprehensive physical activity time of primary and secondary school students is not less than 2 hours a day, and one physical education class is guaranteed every day, and exercise for another hour after class to ensure two hours a day to comprehensively cultivate students' positive psychological qualities.
Wang Jiayi said that although it is a "small incision" and a specific small problem during recess, it is of great significance. It extends the form and content of the "five education", that is, moral education, intellectual education, sports, aesthetic education, and labor education, which reflects the educational orientation centered on student development and pays more attention to the all-round development of students.
