Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Disabled Persons 

Chapter 4 Employment

Article 27 [Responsibilities]
The state protects disabled persons the right to work.

People's governments at various levels shall formulate overall plans on employment of disabled persons and create condition for their employment.

Article 28 [Guiding Principles]
Employment of disabled persons shall follow the principle of combining concent rative arrangement with dispersed arrangement. Preferential policies and measures of support and protection shall be adopted with a view to gradually popularizing, stabilizing and rationalizing employment of disabled persons through multiple channels, at various levels and in a variety of forms.

Article 29 [Concentrative Employment]
The state and society shall set up welfare enterprises for disabled persons, work-rehabilitation centres, Tuina-massage hospitals and clinics and other enterprises and institutions of welfare nature as a way of providing concentrative employment for disabled persons.

Article 30 [Dispersed Employment]
The state shall promote the employment of disabled persons by various units. People's governments at all levels and departments concerned shall organize and provide guidance in this regard.State organs, nongovernmental organizations, enterprises, institutions and urban and rural collective economic organizations should employ a certain proportion of disabled persons in appropriate types of jobs and posts. The specific ratio may be determined by the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government in line with their actual conditions.

Article 31 [Self-employment]
Governmental departments concerned shall encourage and assist disabled persons to obtain employment through voluntary organization or to open individual business.

Article 32 [Rural Labour]
Local people's governments at various levels and rural grassroots organizations shall organize and support disabled persons in rural areas to engage in farming, planting, animal breeding, handicraft industry and other forms of production.

Article 33 [Preferential Treatment and Assistance]
The state shall implement the policy of tax reduction or exemption in relation to welfare enterprises and institutions for disabled persons and self-employed disabled workers in urban and rural areas,and provide assistance in production, management, technology, capital, materials supply, working sites and other fields.

Local people's governments and departments concerned shall determine the types of products suitable for production by disabled persons, give priority to welfare enterprises for disabled persons to produce such products and gradually determine which products are to be produced exclusively by such enterprises.

Governmental departments concerned shall, in determining the quota for recruiting and employing workers and staff members, allot a certain proportion of the quota to disabled persons.

Departments concerned shall, in verifying and issuing business licenses,give priority to disabled persons who apply for licenses as self-employed workers or businessmen and give them preferential treatment in allotting work sites and loans and in other ways.

Departments concerned shall provide assistance for disabled persons engaged in various kinds of labour in rural areas by way of production services, technical guidance, supply of materials for agricultural use, collection and purchase of farm and sideline products and loans.

Article 34 [Protection]
The state shall protect the property ownership and the managerial decisionmaking power of welfare enterprises and institutions for disabled persons, whose lawful rights and interests shall not be violated.

No discrimination shall be practised against disabled persons in recruitment,employment,obtainment of permanent status, promotion, determining technical or professional titles, payment, welfare, labour insurance or in other aspects.

No enterprises or institutions shall deny graduates assigned by the state from institutions of higher learning,polytechnic schools or technical schools solely on the ground of their disabilities; in case of such denial, the disabled graduates may appeal to departments concerned for disposition and the relevant departments shall instruct the enterprises or institutions concerned to accept the said graduate students.

Enterprises and institutions where disabled persons work shall provide the disabled workers with appropriate working conditions and labour protection.

Article 35 [Training of Employees]
Enterprises and institutions where disabled persons work shall provide in-service technical training for disabled employees with a view to upgrading their skills and techniques.