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China trains rural blind people for massage business

BEIJING, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- China has launched a one-year free program of massage training for visually-impaired people in impoverished rural areas, said the China Association of the Blind (CAB) Thursday.

The project plans to train a total of 300 blind people in ten provinces and autonomous regions including Shanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Gansu, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Jiangxi, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia.

Every training term lasts three months.

"Massage is a professional skill which is suitable for blind people and has large market demand... With the help of the program, these poor blind people can earn a better living on their own and ...

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