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China held the first winter-sports festival for the disabled people over the weekend, with more than 300 people hitting the slopes in Yanqing near Beijing.
China's central authority has issued a national action plan to reduce new disability cases by 2020 by promoting awareness and early screening, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
As family sizes shrink and China's population ages, the country will have to expend more resources and money to provide elderly citizens with everyday assistance. Shan Juan reports.
Bogota, Colombia's capital, celebrated its 478th birthday this week with cultural events and sports programs for hte disabled to highlight the government's social inclusion policies.
The ASEAN festival of people with disabilities continued for second day in Yangon with 168 disabled artists and performers from nine ASEAN member countries, except Brunei, sources with the festival said Saturday.
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has called for a more just, tolerant and sustainable environment for the development of disabled people.
Almost a quarter of all New Zealanders were identified as disabled last year and the proportion is growing as the population ages, according to survey results released by a government statistics agency on Tuesday.
Twenty-three-year-old Liu Wei skillfully massages his classmate's feet in a classroom in east China's Anhui Province to practice his skills as a blind masseur.
Disabled people remain one of the most needy groups in China with many living below the poverty line, said Zhang Haidi, chairwoman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation here Tuesday.
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