In order to better care for eyes, prevent fundus diseases and protect eyesight, on September 25th, 1992, Geng, a professor of ophthalmology and epidemiology at Tianjin Medical University, initiated the first seminar of National Eye Love Day in Tianjin. This initiative was responded by ophthalmologists and ophthalmologists, and it was decided that May 5th of each year would be "National Eye Care Day". On May 5th, 1993, Tianjin held the first eye-care day publicity activity.
Affected by this, since 1994, large and medium-sized cities in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, have held free consultation activities on May 5 to publicize the significance of Eye-Love Day. 1996, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the China Disabled Persons' Federation and other ministries and commissions jointly issued a notice, listing Eye-Love Day as one of the national festivals and redetermining June 6 as the National Eye-Love Day.
The purpose of National Eye Love Day
The purpose of setting up National Eye Love Day is to popularize scientific eye knowledge, improve the eye health level of teenagers and prevent eye diseases. At the same time, in order to better carry out publicity activities, a corresponding theme will be set up every year on National Eye Love Day.
During the National Eye Love Day, all parts of the country will organize and mobilize medical institutions, blindness prevention and treatment workers and ophthalmologists to vigorously carry out free clinics, consultations and special lectures to provide eye care services for the masses; Make full use of schools, families and other places to help teenagers master scientific knowledge and methods of eye use, cultivate students' good eye habits and reduce the myopia rate of teenagers.