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CHINA'S central government is to invest 600 million yuan (US$80 million) over the next three years to build and expand 190 special schools for the handicapped. The schools will be built mainly in China's less prosperous central and west areas, where... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Oct 18 2007

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