What convenience will disabled people get from the ＂Thirteenth Five-Year Plan＂ list of public services？
BEIJING, Beijing, March 4 (Shang Qi) Recently, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Promoting Equalization of Basic Public Services" was released, in which a chapter was devoted to the deployment of basic public services for the disabled, creating convenient conditions and a friendly environment for the disabled to participate in social development on an equal footing, so that the disabled can live in peace and contentment, food and clothing, and live a more affluent, happier and dignified life.
— — Promote 12-year free education for disabled children and adolescents with financial difficulties.
The reporter noted that the "Plan" listed a total of 10 service projects in the field of disabled people.
In terms of education for the disabled, the Plan clearly stipulates that 12-year free education, including compulsory education and high school education, will be actively promoted for disabled children and adolescents with financial difficulties.
The Plan emphasizes the construction of special education resource centers based on existing special education schools to improve the popularization level, condition guarantee and education quality of special education. Improve the special education system and actively create conditions to ensure that disabled students who have completed compulsory education and are willing have the opportunity to receive appropriate secondary vocational education.
On this basis, the Plan also puts forward requirements for the training of special education talents: the key point is to build rehabilitation universities, improve the running level of special education majors in colleges and universities, and promote the establishment of special education courses in normal universities.
About employment
— — Provide free vocational skills training for 1 million disabled people in cities and towns.
The Plan makes arrangements for employment, entrepreneurship and social security services for the disabled, and proposes to provide free employment and entrepreneurship services for urban and rural disabled people who have the ability to work and the willingness to work, and provide free vocational training according to regulations.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the research office of China Disabled Persons’ Federation put forward the goal of employment service for the disabled during the 13 th Five-Year Plan period — — Provide free vocational skills training for 1 million disabled people in cities and towns, focus on improving their employability, and realize the employment of 500,000 new disabled people in cities and towns.
The person in charge said that by 2017, all municipal districts and all counties (cities, banners) will have at least one auxiliary employment agency for the disabled, which will basically meet the employment needs of the mentally, mentally and severely disabled with certain working ability.
About barrier-free environment
— — Provide subsidies for the renovation of 238,000 poor families with severe disabilities.
The Plan proposes to accelerate the barrier-free transformation of public places and facilities, and at the same time emphasizes the improvement of comprehensive service capacity of disabled people at county level, and clearly strengthens the service capacity of rehabilitation, care, vocational training, assistive devices adaptation, culture and sports of disabled people at county level, gives full play to the function of helping disabled people in grass-roots public service facilities, and promotes the formation of a grass-roots service network for disabled people at county (city, district), township (town) and village (neighborhood) levels.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the research office of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation said that the barrier-free transformation of poor families with severe disabilities should be intensified, and the barrier-free transformation of families with disabilities should be included in the practical project for the people by the government.
The person in charge revealed that the central government provided subsidies for the renovation of 238,000 poor families with severe disabilities, expanded the coverage of barrier-free renovation services for disabled families, effectively solved the obstacles of family life for disabled people, and laid a material foundation for disabled people to achieve a well-off life.
About communication
— — In 2020, the relevant norms and standards of national common sign language and national common Braille will be promulgated.
The Plan proposes to strengthen the standardization and promotion of national common sign language and common Braille. Promote the facilities of public cultural and sports venues to be open to the disabled free of charge or preferential treatment, and provide special cultural services for people with vision and hearing disabilities.
In this regard, the relevant person in charge of the research office of China Disabled Persons’ Federation put forward the key tasks and measures to strengthen the standardization and promotion of national common sign language and national common Braille. He said that the standardization of sign language and Braille is an important part of the national language and writing cause and a long-term and lasting systematic project.
According to the person in charge, in 2017, the pilot projects of the National Universal Sign Language Program (Trial) and the National Universal Braille Program (Trial) will be completed, and the two programs will be revised and improved according to the feedback from the pilot projects; In 2018, the National Universal Sign Language Program and the National Universal Braille Program were promulgated, basically forming a standardized working mechanism for sign language and Braille; By 2020, the relevant standards of national common sign language and national common Braille will be promulgated, and laws and regulations related to sign language and Braille will be established and improved.
— — Accelerate the pilot project of intelligent disabled card.
The Plan proposes to improve the data management system of basic information of the disabled population and basic service demand information. Among them, the relevant person in charge of the research office of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation stressed that the pilot program of intelligent disability cards should be accelerated.
According to reports, in 1995 and 2008, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation successively issued the first and second generation disability cards, and by December 2016, the country had issued 32 million second generation disability cards.
However, the first two generations of disabled persons’ cards are ordinary paper documents, which are easy to wear and tear, easy to copy, and difficult to collect information. In recent years, the voice of disabled persons demanding the replacement of paper disabled persons’ cards has become increasingly strong.
The person in charge said that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the China Disabled Persons’ Federation should build a basic guarantee platform such as card issuing custody, support the card issuing work in pilot provinces, build an intelligent key system for disabled persons’ cards and an intelligent universal testing platform for disabled persons’ cards, and complete the construction of an intelligent data center for disabled persons’ cards. (End)