Source: cdpf.org.cn

09-02-2008 17:54

The work for the employment for persons with disability made new progress in 2007. Some 392,000 disabled persons in urban areas were newly employed, including 119,000 through concentrative placement, 115,000 through quota employment and 158,000 through various forms of self-employment and some 16,965,000 disabled persons in rural areas were employed as well.

Blind massage industry grew fast with quick increase of the number of relevant service institutions. During 2007, some 7,143 blind masseurs were trained for medical care purpose and 100,052 were trained for fitness. Over 95 % of trained masseurs for fitness got jobs. There were 10,188 blind massage institutions for fitness and 1,500 for medical care. There were 3,257 and 5,383 blind masseurs passed secondary and elementary level qualification exams and 42 passed the senior level exams.

Fostering service for people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities was developed with newly built institutions over 1,000, providing fostering service to 18,000 people with intellectual disabilities, 5,000 with psychiatric disabilities and 4,700 with other severe disabilities.

Social security for disabled persons was further improved. 2.607 million disabled persons in urban areas enjoyed social insurance; among those urban as well as rural areas where minimum living standards policies were adopted, some 6.359 million disabled persons enjoyed the minimum living guarantee. Some 608,000 disabled persons lived in all kinds of welfare institutions and care centers; and 3.705 million received provisional or fixed-term special allowance or social relief.

 

Editor:Zhang Ning