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(ii) Children

Welfare

Institutes.

established to accept orphans,

and

on.

These

are

abandoned babies

disabled children who have no one to depend

They also accept disabled babies or young

children from workers' families who cannot take

care of themselves, or whose parents are unable to

take care of them. At present, there are 64

children welfare institutes

of more than 5,600 children.

in China taking care

(iii) Psychiatric Hospitals. These are for accepting

mental patients who are homeless and have no one

At present, there are 124

to depend on.

psychiatric hospitals managed by the Ministry of

Civil Affairs with a total of 21,000 mental

patients.

In

addition, with subsidies from the International

Village Organization, China has established

Children's Village in Tianjin, Yantai and

SOS Children's

3 Chinese

SOS

Qiqihar, accepting a total of 210 orphans.

in China

ways,

In recent years, the social welfare service units

undergone reforms and have changed in three

have

namely

a change from a unilateral and closed system

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