On January 3, 2025, the National Health Commission held a press conference to introduce the importance of maintaining a balanced diet and body weight, and answered questions from reporters.

In June 2024, the National Health Commission and 16 other departments launched the "Weight Management Year" campaign, advocating and promoting a civilized and healthy lifestyle, enhancing the public's awareness and skills in weight management, preventing and controlling overweight and obesity, and advancing the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.

On the day of the press conference, the National Health Commission held a ceremony to appoint ambassadors for the "Weight Management Year" event. Male table tennis Olympic champion Ma Long and female artistic gymnastics Olympic champion Huang Zhangjiayang were invited to serve as ambassadors for the "Weight Management Year" event, fully leveraging the influence and driving effect of public figures in society and encouraging more people to participate in the "Weight Management Year" activities.

At the press conference, a reporter from Southern Finance and 21st Century Business Herald asked: In recent years, the incidence of overweight and obese people in China has been continuously increasing. May I ask, what key areas should we focus on in order to effectively curb the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity?

Gao Guangming, Deputy Director of the Medical Emergency Department of the National Health Commission, responded that the slogan of the "Weight Management Year" is "Healthy Weight Together". From this, it can be seen that we need to call on everyone to participate. Everyone should pay attention to their own weight, understand their own weight, and gain health benefits from weight management in order to effectively curb the rising trend of overweight and obesity in the whole society.

Gao Guangming pointed out that in order to achieve this goal, the following three aspects are very important.

Firstly, it is important for individuals to enhance their awareness of weight management. Everyone should be aware of the harm of abnormal weight, especially the damage to health caused by overweight and obesity, in order to consciously control their weight in daily life. At the same time, it is necessary to make the public aware of the scientific knowledge of weight management, master the basic knowledge and skills of reasonable diet and appropriate exercise, in order to scientifically and standardly manage weight and prevent problems such as weight rebound after good control.

Secondly, family is very important and should actively participate in weight management. Family dietary and exercise habits have the most direct impact on an individual's weight. Mutual reminders, supervision, and encouragement from family members are crucial sources of motivation for maintaining good weight management. Therefore, it is necessary to fully utilize the role of the family, cultivate a healthy lifestyle, master scientific cooking skills, actively participate in sports and exercise, and develop the habit of regularly measuring the weight of family members to effectively prevent family clustering obesity.

Thirdly, it is necessary to establish a favorable social supportive environment. Everyone should fully realize the importance of weight management. Units, communities, and villages should form a broad consensus, create convenient monitoring of weight, and create environmental conditions to prevent overweight and obesity. In 2025, the health department will collaborate with relevant departments to promote the creation of a supportive social environment. For example, community health service institutions now have some health cabins that can measure weight, blood pressure, etc. There is still a lot of work to be done in this area. Let's work together to create a healthy and supportive social environment. By consciously practicing a healthy lifestyle together, there is hope for controlling the growth trend of overweight and obesity in the population.