Poverty posing major challenge

Poverty remains a major obstacle facing a national goal to provide rehabilitation services to all of the country's disabled by 2015, the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) has said.

"Ongoing rehabilitation work can hardly meet the demand for it," said Shen Zhifei, CDPF's deputy general director in an online interview earlier this month.

There are about 83 million disabled in the country, making up about 6.34 percent of the total population, official figures have showed.