East China’s Jiangsu province will strive to lift 97000 people with disabilities out of poverty through various means by echoing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s call that no disabled people will be left behind in the country’s drive for a well-off society in an all-round way.
From 2016 to the end of 2018, Jiangsu lifted 209,000 impoverished disabled people out of poverty, indicating a major breakthrough in the battle against poverty alleviation.
Jiangsu now registers nearly 580000 needy people with 98.65% of them living in the northern part of the province.
In 2016, 307000 disabled people were placed on low income file. 97000 of them are yet to be lifted out of poverty, standing for 17.2% of the province’s low income people.
Jiangsu will offer 10000 jobs to disabled people through real-name system while aid will reach out to all the low income disabled people who have the ability and willingness to work.
By 2020, the province will transfer 60% of the rural disabled people to non-agricultural sectors for employment.
Young and mid-aged disabled people aged between 16 and 45 will be encouraged to launch business startups.
Supportive aid will be given to people with severe physical, mental, and intellectual disabilities.
