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trainings.
is 60%.
rehabilitation
The successful rate is 80% and improvement rate
Besides providing internal services and
work, welfare institutes at the city level
also have a radiating and guiding effect on welfare units
districts, streets and counties, ie. to provide training
to people in the community and guidance on rehabilitation.
in
In recent
recent years,
following reforms and the open
door policy, welfare service has changed from a closed forn
to an open form, which enhances our contacts and exchanges
with the outside, and extended the influence of the welfare
services in the Capital. In particular in the past two or
three years, various institutes for the elderly, children
disabled have established good relations with many
Friends from some 30 countries and
and the
countries in the world.
regions have visited
us.
The WHO, the UNICEF and
international charitable organizations
visits to our welfare institutes,
support, care and friendly exchanges.
also pay frequent
providing us with
At present, the city of Beijing is the first in
the country to become an aging city. There is a total of
1.174 million elderly persons (aged above 60) in the city,
representing 11.5% of Beijing's total population. There
are about
37,847 disabled children in the city (among them
23,886 are ..mentally handicapped; 4,385 have hearing
defects; 5,423 have a combination of various disabilities;
3,731 physically handicapped; 422 mentally ill). In order
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