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Instead of becoming a masseuse like many blind people in China, Wang Xiangjun, who is congenitally blind, has a bigger dream 鈥 teaching visually impaired kids how to play the piano.
Wang, 24, was first introduced to music by her grandmother, who was a primary school music teacher. But she did not start to learn to play the piano until she was sent to study at the Hefei Special Education Center of east China鈥檚 Anhui Province.
Since then, Wang has been fascinated by the pattern of sounds.
鈥淚t鈥檚 very hard for blind people to learn to play the piano. The first problem is to find the keys,鈥 said Wang, who had to listen to the melody again and again, so as to remember them by heart. Then she would try to carefully press the keys one by one.
鈥淎fter three months鈥 practice, she finally mastered the basic fingering and hand positions,鈥 recalled Li Yunxia, Wang鈥檚 music teacher at the special education center.
鈥淢usic makes her more confident. Her ears are her eyes,鈥 Li said.
鈥淎lthough learning piano is especially difficult for blind people, she was very earnest about it. She not only kept up with the teaching schedule, and she even performed better than I expected.鈥
Today marks White Cane Safety Day, an event designated to help the public better understand blindness and visual handicaps.
There are over 17 million visually impaired people in China. With the efforts of the country and the awareness of the general public, the life of many visually impaired citizens has changed for the better.
In 2014, the Ministry of Education stipulated that visually impaired people should be given access to braille or electronic exam papers, as well as support staff so that they can sit the national college entrance exam.
Benefiting from the act, Wang finished the braille version of the exam paper in 2015 and was admitted to the Tianjin Conservatory of Music.
She was the first blind student to do so through the college entrance exam in Anhui Province.
During college, Wang performed in several concerts and raised more than 100,000 yuan (US$14,890). She donated all of the funds to those in need.
After graduation, she returned to her alma mater鈥 the Hefei Special Education Center 鈥 as a piano teacher.
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