China will endeavor to ensure the educational opportunities of
disabled people in the next five years, said a State Council
executive meeting in Beijing on Thursday.
The educational system for disabled people should be improved in
the next five years, guaranteeing the compulsory education of
disabled children, and junior or senior education, said the meeting
presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao.
Governments at different levels are required to press on their
work, improving the lives of disabled people in the next five
years, said the "Outline of the 11th Five-Year Guidelines for the
Disabled in China" deliberated and passed by the meeting.
The society should provide more work opportunities for disabled
people, enlarging social welfare system for them, the meeting
said.
More efforts will be taken to help the disabled living in rural
areas in the next five years and try to lift the 10 million rural
poor disabled people out of poverty and enhancing their incomes,
said the meeting.
The meeting also asked the public service sectors to provide
convenient services for the disabled and called on more social
efforts to help them.
China has over 60 million disabled people at present.
Besides, participants at the meeting also discussed the present
situation of the state-owned companies in China and called for
pushing forward the reforms of state-owned entities.
(Xinhua News Agency May 26, 2006)