Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons
10.In 1982, when the United Nations General Assembly designated the ten year period from 1983 to 1992 as the "United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons," the Chinese government accepted its World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. The China Organizational Committee of the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, with the participation of 22 governmental departments and the China Disabled Persons' Federation, was formed to lead and co-ordinate the work.

