Vicky Xu / Shanghai Daily news

Eighty percent of local disabled population have got employed with the help of vocational trainings and government endowments, the Jiefang Daily reported Monday.
According to the Shanghai Disabled Person's Labor Service Center, 80,000 disabled people, or 80 percent of all the nearly 100,000 disabled population in Shanghai have got jobs.
Offering courses to nearly 5,000 disabled people every year, vocational training has made many disabled into excellent farmers, massage therapists, webmasters and superb digital cameramen. The 127 massage centers in the city operated by the blind have more than 600 therapists on the pay roll.
Government endowments of some 49.5 million yuan (US$5.9 million) have helped nearly 50,000 disabled people and/or their children continue school education in the past two years.
With the help of local universities and the government, more than 360 blind or deaf people have even got college graduation, more than 20 disabled have asked famous cameramen, gardeners and chefs to be their teachers. After training courses, three mentally disabled people have even been employed by a western-style restaurant.