The Ministry of Education issued the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Further Strengthening the Sleep Management of Primary and Secondary School Students (hereinafter referred to as the Notice), which specifically stipulates that primary and secondary school students should sleep at night. Generally, primary school students go to bed no later than 2 1:20, junior high school students go to bed no later than 22:00, and senior high school students go to bed no later than 23:00.

The notice clarified the requirements for students' sleep time. According to the characteristics of physical and mental development of students of different ages, the sleep time of primary school students should reach 10 hour, junior high school students should reach 9 hours, and senior high school students should reach 8 hours. Schools, families and relevant parties should work together to ensure adequate sleep time for primary and secondary school students.

Relevant regulations

The notice also made overall arrangements for the school schedule. The provincial education administrative department should set out from the need of ensuring students' adequate sleep and reasonably determine the schedule of primary and secondary schools according to the actual situation. Primary school starts at 8: 20 in the morning and middle school starts at 8: 00. Schools may not require students to participate in unified education and teaching activities in advance.

For individual students who arrive at school in advance due to special family circumstances, the school should open the door in advance and make proper arrangements; Reasonable arrangement of recess and afternoon class time, places and schools where conditions permit should ensure students' necessary lunch break; Boarding schools should arrange their work and rest schedules reasonably to ensure that students meet the prescribed sleep time requirements.

The circular requires that primary and secondary schools should improve the effectiveness of classroom teaching, strengthen the overall management of homework, reasonably control the total amount of students' written homework in strict accordance with the requirements of relevant regulations, and guide students to make full use of self-study classes or after-school service hours, so that primary school students can basically complete their written homework at school, and middle school students can complete most of their written homework at school, so as to prevent students from working too long after returning home and occupying normal sleep time.

The end time of training in off-campus training institutions shall not be later than 20:30, and homework shall not be arranged in any form such as pre-class preparation, after-class consolidation, homework practice, and WeChat group punching.