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Among 5- to 18-year-old Chinese students from two cities of China, trained eye-care professionals performed assessment of ocular biometrics (axial length (AL), corneal curvature radius (CR), anterior chamber depth) under noncycloplegic conditions using NIDEK Optical Biometer AL-Scan, distance visual acuity using retro-illuminated logMAR chart with tumbling-E optotypes, and cycloplegic refractive error using NIDEK autorefractor with administration of 0.5% tropicamide. Spherical equivalent (SER) in diopters (D) was calculated as sphere plus half cylinder, and myopia was defined as SER\u2009\u2264\u2009\u2212\u20090.5\u00a0D. Performances of ocular biometrics and UCVA (individually and in combination) for detecting myopia were evaluated using sensitivity and specificity, predictive values, and area under ROC curve (AUC) in both development dataset and validation dataset. 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Using age-specific AL\/CR cutoff (&gt;\u20093.00 for age\u2009&lt;\u200910\u00a0years,\u2009&gt;\u20093.06 for 10\u201314\u00a0years,\u2009&gt;\u20093.08 for\u2009\u2265\u200915\u00a0years) as myopia positive, the sensitivity and specificity were 87.0% (95% CI 84.4\u201389.6%) and 87.8% (86.0\u201389.6%), respectively, in the development dataset and 86.4% (95% CI 83.7\u201389.1%) and 89.4% (95% CI 87.3\u201391.4%), respectively, in the validation dataset. Combining AL\/CR and UCVA (worse than 20\/32 for age\u2009&lt;\u200910\u00a0years, and 20\/25 for\u2009\u2265\u200910\u00a0years) provided 91.9% (95% CI 90.4\u201393.4%) sensitivity and 87.0% (95% CI 85.6\u201388.4%) specificity, positive value of 80.6% (95% CI 78.5\u201382.6%) and negative value of 94.8% (95% CI 93.8\u201395.8%). 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