Celebrating 70 years of work to help the disabled
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China yesterday issued a white paper on the country鈥檚 efforts to protect the rights and interests of people with disabilities over the past 70 years.
鈥淓quality, Participation and Sharing: 70 Years of Protecting the Rights and Interests of Persons with Disabilities in the PRC鈥 was released by the State Council Information Office.
China has around 85 million people with disabilities, according to the white paper.
Over the 70 years since the founding of the People鈥檚 Republic of China in 1949, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government have always put the people first and provided care for the group with special difficulties, making them participants in, contributors to, and beneficiaries of the country鈥檚 social and economic development, it said.
Zhang Haidi, a wheelchair-bound female writer and chairperson of the China Disabled Persons鈥 Federation, told a press conference that as a disabled person, she has witnessed and experienced real changes in the past decades.
Recalling that in the 1960s she was refused by most primary schools and had no means to obtain a wheelchair as a teenager, Zhang, now 64, lauded the development of the country鈥檚 education and rehabilitation services for people with disabilities.
The number of students in special education schools has grown significantly over the years. In 2018, 666,000 students with disabilities studied in these schools, an increase of 298,000 people, or 81 percent over 2013, according to the white paper.
Non-compulsory education for people with disabilities has also made steady progress. In 2018, China had 133 secondary vocational schools or classes with an enrollment of 19,475 students with disabilities.
From 2012 to 2018, a total of 62,200 students with disabilities were enrolled in regular institutions of higher education.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a good start, and we believe we will be able to send more children with disabilities to schools and even colleges,鈥 Zhang said.
The white paper noted that the development of the programs for people with disabilities is still unbalanced and inadequate, and there is still a big gap between the lives these people lead and lives to which they aspire.
Laws passed
鈥淐hina will continue to improve the mechanisms for ensuring their rights and interests 鈥 eliminating discrimination, fully respecting and guaranteeing their human rights, improving their well-being, enhancing their ability to improve their situation, and ensuring that they are able to participate in the country鈥檚 development process and share the ensuing gains as equals,鈥 it said.
By April 2018, more than 80 laws and 50 administrative regulations had been passed concerning the protection of the rights and interests of people with disabilities, according to the document.
The CDPF, as a legitimate organization approved by the State Council, represents and safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of people with disabilities. By 2018, a total of 42,000 disabled persons鈥 federations had been set up across the nation. Led by the CDPF, there are associations for persons with specific disabilities, such as visual, hearing and physical disabilities.
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