BEIJING: Chinese people are growing taller as the country becomes richer but they are getting fatter even faster, the government and state media said.
The proportion of Chinese over-18s who were overweight stood at 30.1 percent in 2012, up 7.3 percentage points over a decade, Wang Guoqiang, a vice director of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, told a press conference.
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