The government plans to offer the country's 83 million disabled citizens 12 years of compulsory education over the next five years and offer more benefits to improve their quality of life, according to a five-year development plan unveiled on June 8 by the State Council.

The government will provide disabled students with greater financial subsidies to meet their special needs and gradually institute free education from primary school to high school. The plan aims to help 13 million with rehabilitation services by building rehabilitation centers and health service centers in every city and town by 2015.

The government will provide the disabled with special support and guarantee a basic standard of living by expanding welfare scope and including all disabled citizens in urban and rural areas in the country's basic medical care insurance programs by 2015.