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OBJECTIVE: To establish a Food and Nutrition Surveillance System as the supplementation to the Nationwide Nutritional Survey conducted in China for every ten years. To understand the changes and trend of child growth during the period in fast economic development in China. To provide the basis for policy-maker. METHODS: Based on 145 National Disease Monitoring Sites and 600 sampling sites of SSB, to sampling 40 sites as Chinese Food and Nutrition Surveillance sites. Using Child growth Reference by WHO to evaluate the Child development. Using SSB data to assess the nutrient intake by China DDp. RESULTS: The results from 5 round surveillance in 15 years are reliable and are consistent with National Nutrition Survey. The results also become national data and the basis for policy-making. CONCLUSION: The big improvement of child growth has been showed in China in past 15 years. We have to pay attention to child complementation feeding as important as breastfeeding, improvement of Anemia situation for mother and his/her child, Improvement of child growth in Western child and Child problem of floating mothers.
