Shenzhen has issued its 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) for the protection and development of the disabled, aiming to narrow the living standard gaps between the normal and physically or mentally challenged people.
The plan says that the city will build more barrier-free facilities, and the disabled will have more opportunities to equally participate in economic and social development.
It puts forward the main tasks of the city’s work for the disabled from seven aspects: improving the social security level, strengthening disability prevention and rehabilitation, improving the education support system, promoting the employment and encouraging startups, enriching the supply of high-quality sports and cultural services, promoting the construction of a barrier-free city, and strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of the disabled. The plan also defines 18 main goals.
Among them, by 2025: the enrollment of school-age children should reach 100%, coverage of preschool subsidies should be 100%, assistive devices’ adaptation rate should hit 100%, care service coverage for the disabled should reach 100% and coverage rate of barrier-free transformation for families with a disabled person should be 100%.
In terms of social security, all eligible families will be included in the minimum living security scheme. The city will adopt a dynamic adjustment mechanism of living subsidies for disabled people and nursing subsidies for severely disabled people.
To strengthen rehabilitation services, the city will improve the rehabilitation assistance guarantee system for disabled children and adults.
It will establish a system of family doctors for the disabled and make assessments of community rehabilitation services.
In terms of education services, the city will set up special preschool branches in welfare institutions, support the establishment of preschool departments in district-level special schools and promote the implementation of 15 years of free education for students with disabilities.