3月29日午间英语新闻：中国居民日平均睡眠不足7小时

>China's key economic indicators pick up pace
国家统计局：1-2月份国民经济稳中有升

China's value-added industrial output - a gauge of activity in the manufacturing, mining and utilities sectors - grew by 7 percent in the January-February period from a year earlier after a 6.8 percent rise in December, figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed.
国家统计局数据显示，1-2月份，全国规模以上工业增加值（衡量制造业、采矿业和公用事业等经济活动的指标）同比增长7.0%，增速比上年12月份加快0.2个百分点。

Retail sales, a key measurement of consumer spending, surged 5.5 percent year-on-year in the same period.
1-2月份，社会消费品零售额同比增长5.5%。

Fixed-asset investment - a gauge of expenditures on items including infrastructure, property, machinery and equipment - increased by 4.2 percent, compared with a 3 percent rise for the whole year of 2023.
1-2月份，全国固定资产投资（不含农户）（衡量基础设施、房地产、机械和设备等项目支出的指标）同比增长4.2%，比上年全年加快1.2个百分点。

The surveyed urban jobless rate came in at 5.3 percent in February, according to NBS.
2月份，全国城镇调查失业率为5.3%。

NBS said the Chinese economy continued to recover in the first two months with stimulus policy measures gradually taking effect.
国家统计局表示，1-2月份，随着各项宏观政策发力显效，国民经济持续回升向好。

Meanwhile, the bureau warned of challenges from a more complicated and grimmer external environment, mounting uncertainties and insufficient demand, calling for further moves to strengthen China's economic recovery foundation.
但也要看到，外部环境复杂性、严峻性、不确定性上升，国内有效需求不足问题犹存，经济持续回升向好基础还需巩固。
 
>Chinese people sleep less than 7 hours a night
中国居民日平均睡眠不足7小时

Chinese residents sleep less than 7 hours per night, according to the 2024 Chinese National Healthy Sleep White Paper, released on Saturday by the Chinese Sleep Research Society.
中国睡眠研究会16日发布的《2024中国国民健康睡眠白皮书》显示，中国居民每晚睡眠时间不足7小时。

The report said that Chinese residents go to bed on average after 12 am, with an average sleep duration of 6.75 hours per night.
报告称，居民平均在零点后入睡，夜间睡眠平均时长为6.75小时。

The report showed that 28 percent of respondents sleep less than 6 hours, and 64 percent have poor sleep quality. Most people have experienced sleep disturbances such as nocturnal awakenings, early awakenings, having trouble falling asleep and nocturnal urination.
报告显示，28%的人群夜间睡眠时长不超过6小时，64%的人睡眠质量欠佳。大多数人都曾有过睡眠困扰，主要的睡眠困扰有：夜醒、早醒、入睡困难、夜间如厕。

The report also found that 59 percent of respondents suffer from insomnia, while only 19 percent have no sleep disorders.
报告还发现，59%的人存在失眠症状，完全无睡眠障碍人群仅占19%。

Only 29 percent of respondents go to bed before 11 pm, while 47 percent go to bed after 12 am, and 13 percent do so after 2:00 am. Among them, the post-00s generation has an average bedtime of 12:33 am, while the pre-1970s has an average bedtime of 11:02 pm.
仅有29%的被调查人群在23:00前入睡，47%的人群在零点后入睡，13%的人群在凌晨2:00后入睡。这其中，“00后”平均入睡时间为00:33，“70前”入睡时间为23:02。

Pre- and post-1970s retired people often suffer from nocturnal awakening, early awakening and nocturnal urination, while the post-00s and post-90s generations have trouble falling asleep. In terms of university students, 56 percent use their smartphones for more than 8 hours every day., 51 percent go to bed after 12 am, and 19 percent do so after 2:00 am. The sleep duration of office workers on non-working days is 33 minutes longer  than on working days.
“70前”及“70后”的已退休人员常被夜醒、早醒、夜间如厕困扰，“00后”和“90后”的年轻人则困扰于入睡困难。针对大学生群体，调查显示，56%的大学生每天使用手机超过8小时，且有51%的人在零点后入睡，更有19%的人入睡超过凌晨2:00。上班族群体在非工作日夜间睡眠比工作日平均多33分钟。

The report also showed a correlation between a person's lifestyle and the quality of their sleep.
本次发布的报告还揭示了睡眠与生活方式之间的关系。

People who exercise regularly (monthly exercise frequency ≥ 10 times) tend to go to bed and wake up early, with an average bedtime of 11:56 pm and wake-up time of 7:26 am. Compared with people who exercise three  times or less a month, their sleep duration is nearly 14 minutes shorter.
数据显示，热爱运动的人群(月运动频次≥10次)偏向于早睡早起，平均23:56入睡，7:26起床，与月运动频次≤3次的人相比，他们的睡眠时间短了近14分钟。

In addition, the sleep duration of people who drink is 27 minutes shorter than non-drinkers. As the frequency of alcohol consumption increases, the sleep quality declines.
饮酒人群比不饮酒人群平均每晚少睡27分钟。饮酒频次越高，睡眠质量越低。

重点词汇：
nocturnal
英/ nɒkˈtɜːn(ə)l / 美/ nɑːkˈtɜːrn(ə)l /
adj.（动物）夜间活动的；夜间发生的