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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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