广播听力：China Helps Disabled People to Work

In the past five years, the Chinese government has invested billions of dollars in training disabled people and helping them with their employment. Some have even become financially independent as a result.

CRI reporter Xu Weiyi has the story.

Reporter:

Wu Zihe, a girl afflicted with paralysis, is working on a landscape painting.

"I can earn 30 Yuan for such a painting, if it is sold in a batch. If I sell it separately, I can get about 100 Yuan. I can finish one such painting each day and earn 1,000 to 2,000 Yuan a month."

The art form Wu Zihe practices is called knife-painting, which originated in the northeast city of Dunhua, in Jilin Province.
A local official, Zhang Chunhua, says it only takes about a year for a person without any painting skills to learn the basic techniques of knife-painting.

"We think it suits disabled people very well. So the government spent over 10 million Yuan to build this knife-painting training center to provide free training for them."

Since last year, the center has trained over 200 disabled persons like Wu Zihe.

The city has also established a trading center to help sell these knife-painting works, and has found buyers in more than 10 countries and regions.

Meanwhile, in provinces like Zhejiang and Sichuan, local governments have rented stalls for the disabled in agricultural markets. And east China's Shandong Province has set up free cabins for their small enterprises.

Tang Xiaoquan, a senior official with the China Disabled Persons' Federation, says that out of 25 million disabled persons in China who are not incapacitated from working, over 21 million are employed.

She says according to the plan of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, the number of employed handicapped people in urban areas should increase by 750,000 from 2005 to 2010. In rural areas, that number should hold around 18 million.

Xu Weiyi, CRI news

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