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China – Policy Recommendations on Cell Phones, Wireless Radiation & Health

May 13, 2019 | 0 comments

RF Public Exposure Limit Lower than ICNIRP

 

  • RF 12 V/m 900 MHz RFR V/m electric field limit. The standard also cites the precautionary principle and encourages facility and equipment owners to take effective measures to reduce public exposure.

 

ELF Regulations to Reduce Human Exposure

  • 500 kV power lines are not allowed over buildings, buildings are removed within 5 m of outer conductors. last update 2/12/10 information on new development supplied by delegation from State Grid Corporation of China.

Cell Phones Banned in Schools 

2/2021: The China Ministry of Education released a notice with the directive that all primary and secondary school students in China will be barred from bringing mobile phones to school. If a child is caught playing on their phone at school, teachers will confiscate the students’  phones and return them when the semester ends. Schools may not assign or ask students to do homework via cellphones and schools must set up public phones and teacher hotlines for communication between parents and students, the notice says.  According to the notice, the measures are  to protect students’ eyesight and allow them to concentrate on their studies, as well as preventing addiction to the internet and video games.

Headline reports “Ministry bans smartphones in all schools” ECNS states:

“The new measure, aimed at protecting students’ eyesight, making sure they focus on study and preventing them from becoming addicted to the internet and online games, has sparked heated debate among parents over the practicality of implementation and the need to keep their children up to pace with phone-centered technological advances in everyday life.”

“When Dai Hanyang was in middle school, his head teacher brought a hammer to school to enforce a cellphone ban.”Seeing him using it to smash a classmate’s mobile phone really let us know that he meant business,” Dai said. The 17-year-old, now a high school student in Changsha, Hunan province, said his school does not allow students to bring cellphones to campus and he never does.”

“Parents will now need to submit a written application if their child needs to bring a mobile phone to school, the ministry said in a notice issued on Monday. In such cases the student should hand the cellphone to the school for custody during school time, it added.”

Liu Changhai, professor of education at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei province, said some parents have used cellphones as “free nannies” during summer and winter vacations and have not limited the time their children can spend using them.

http://www.ecns.cn/news/2021-02-02/detail-ihahfaxh8283906.shtml

 

  • National education authorities have issued a proposal to prevent teachers from using the popular WeChat or QQ messaging apps for assigning homework.
  • The education ministry also called for only paper homework assignments for primary and middle school students “in principle.”

Shandong province: Cell Phones banned in primary and middle schools due to increasing myopia among children.

“Primary and middle school students in Shandong province will not be allowed to use cellphones or tablets in classrooms starting from Nov 1, according to a new regulation.” Asia One “China bans mobile phones in classrooms” October 10, 2018

Zhejiang province: Drafting regulations to ban teachers from assigning homework on mobile apps as part of an effort to save students’ eyesight.

  • According to 2019 news reports the Zhejiang regulation would limit the use of electronic devices to 30 percent of total teaching time and instead encourage homework to be completed by hand on paper.
  • The regulation would bar primary- and middle-school students from bringing electronic devices into classrooms without permission, restrict the amount of homework assigned and increase the time for breaks, sports, and extra-curricular activities.
  • It also says no written homework at all should be assigned to children in the first two years of school
  • Read The Telegraph (March 2019) “Chinese province bans app-based homework to save students’ eyesight”

Russia, and China have  developed  RF limits based on science-based reasoning of levels where health effect have been found. Regarding China please see this table from  Wu 2015. (Note funding for Wu 2015 is connected to Telecom which funds New York University (NYU) WIRELESS, the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering,).

 

Please see the document they reference (https://web.archive.org/web/20130701200155/http://www.salzburg.gv.at/Proceedings_(20)_Chiang.pdf)  here