Chinese Handicapped Perform for FNGDPerformers of the Chinese Handicapped Persons Art Troupe staged the "Light of Life" for the Fifth National Games for the Disabled (FNGD) in Shanghai on the night of May 7. They gave expression to the mental outlook, characterized by the ardent love for life and arts and constant efforts for self-improvement, of 60 million disabled persons through songs, dances and instrumental performances.Their total 15 programs all won warm applause of the audiences. The Chinese Handicapped Persons Art Troupe, founded in 1987, is an amateur mass art group under specialized management. Its performers coming from all over the country include the blind, deaf-mute, and physically and mentally deficient people. They are all common workers, farmers, students and staff members. These performers, with their special artistic elegance, were favored by the people of more than 20 counties and regions in Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania and were honored as "envoys of beauty and friendship". |
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