儿童身体发育状况是评价儿童健康水平和反映社会卫生与生活文化水平的重要指标之一。通过儿童身体发育的研究可以进一步作为评价个体或集体儿童身体发育状况的“标准”,和评价今后儿童身体发育状况进展的依据,并做为制订预防保健工作措施的参考资料。儿童身体发育的指标,主要为身长、体重和胸围;其中更重要的为身长与体重。这些指标受许多因素影响,尤以社会因素为甚。解放后我国儿童身体发育状况有迅速改善,今后随着社会主义建设的 Children’s physical development status is one of the important indicators to evaluate the level of children’s health and reflect the level of social hygiene and living culture. The research on children’s physical development can be used as a “standard” to evaluate the physical development status of children and collective children and the basis for evaluating the progress of children’s physical development in the future, as reference materials for formulating preventive health care measures. Children’s physical development indicators, mainly for height, weight and chest circumference; of which more important is the length and weight. These indicators are influenced by many factors, especially social ones. After the liberation of our children’s physical development has rapidly improved in the future with the socialist construction