Beijing to Do Ten More Good Things For DisabledThe Beijing municipal government will do ten more good deeds for the disabled this year, according to Beijing vice-mayor Zhai Hongxiang recently.This year's ten good things include providing free medical facilities to 200 grassroots recovery centers, training for the disabled so as to help them find jobs, distributing 3 million yuan (370,000 US dollars) of poverty-relief loans for the handicapped in rural areas and setting up an employment service center for the disabled. Beijing has a total of 460,000 handicapped, 4.5 percent of the total population. Since 1990, the municipal government has done 10 good things for the handicapped every year. |
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