Some 85 percent of handicapped people in Beijing have taken up an occupation and all handi-capped urban children capable of studying have entered schools, according to official sources.
The city has placed greater emphasis on providing rehabilitation services for the handicapped in recent years, Xinhua news agency quoted Zhao Chunluan, president of the Beijing Disabled Persons’ Association, as saying.
Over the past five years, more than 100,000 out of the city’s total 400,000 disabled people have been rehabilitated to various degrees.
Culture and sports for the disabled have made substantial progress and the city has been rated first in overall standards related to efforts for improving the living standards of the handicapped for three straight years, Zhao said.
(www.eastday.com 05/09/2001)
