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President Hu Jintao chats with a handicapped child and her teacher in the Beijing Children's Welfare Institute May 31, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday marked the coming of Children's Day on June 1 with a group of handicapped children and orphans.
At the Beijing Children's Welfare Institute, Hu taught children to make "zongzi", traditional glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves and eaten to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which fell on Wednesday.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao(Rear C) poses for a photo with children and teachers of Beijign Xisibei Kindergarten May 31, 2006 during his visit here to mark the coming Children's Day. (Xinhua Photo)
Premier calls on whole society to help handicapped children
Premier Wen Jiabao, in a letter to the China Center for the Rehabilitation of Children with Hearing Disability, has called on the whole society to show concerns over all children with disabilities, to help them enjoy a lively childhood and increase their confidence and vigor for life.
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Premier Wen Jiabao, wearing a red scarf -- symbol of the official children's organization the Young Pioneers, salutes back as a student presents him a gift during his visit to Shijia Elementary School in Beijing May 31, 2006. (Xinhua Photo)
China aims to offer free medical treatment to handicapped orphans
China is aiming to offer free medical treatment to 30,000 handicapped orphans within three years.
The "Tomorrow Plan", funded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA), a three-year project that started in 2004, aims to give 30,000 handicapped orphans free operations.
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UN-China program blesses street children
Home meant anything but warmth to Wang Qi when he, then 12 years old, was rejected by his divorced parents four years ago, but a mimetic family program is reshaping the boy's idea, if more, perhaps, his life.
When the boy who left his parents in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province in 2002 was picked up three years later by a street children's center in Zhengzhou, a city 500 km away in central Henan Province, the poor waif was "somber, sensitive and extremely defensive," according to Lu Jinwei, his "father" in the mimetic family.
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