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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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