Newsletter no. 3. Rehab in focus. Shanghai June, 2011

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1 Shanghai June, 2011 Newsletter no. 3 Rehab in focus In April and May Central Denmark Region Shanghai office has focused on the disabled and rehabilitation sector in Shanghai. Among other things several visit to rehab institutions and hospitals has taken place some of them together with Central Denmark Region producers of assistive devices. Several of the institutions visited are placed in Shanghai Xuhui District, one of the districts that the Shanghai Office started to collect more information about for future cooperation. This newsletter brings stories from the visits. For more information about Central Denmark Regions rehab activities please look at our web page: - read the press announcement and a rehab leaflet made for some May events. 1

2 Theme: Rehab field visit in spring Visit to Sunshine Home and Rehab Station in Shanghai Shanghai government started Sunshine Home program in It mainly focuses on intellectually challenged young people aged who are able to take care of themselves basically and attend trainings including education, labor and rehabilitation exercises. There are around 240 Sunshine Homes in Shanghai mostly at community level and some called demonstration unit at district level. On 18th April, 2011, Central Denmark Region, Shanghai office visited a Sunshine Home in a community in Xuhui District. There are around 30 intellectually challenged people in the sunshine home. Almost all of them come and leave everyday from Monday to Friday by themselves and they bring their own lunch. Before the visitors entered the gate of the Sunshine Home building which located in a peaceful residents community, the students they were so called stood in two lines with a big drum in front of each of them waiting to give a warm welcome. After playing the drum welcome to visitors, the students went to their activity room and started their usual activities. They seemed happy there with what they do. They can make handicrafts, sing, write calligraphy, make tea, learn to cook etc. They also performed singing and martial arts to the visitors. According to the staff, almost all the teachers there are volunteers. There is a college nearby which has lessons on cooking and collaborate with this sunshine home so some teachers/students will come to teach them once a week. Also heard from the staff, this Sunshine Home gets funding of 230 RMB/month/person from Shanghai Disabled Persons Federation. There was a small project going on that a group of disabled people were packing some medical instruments for an enterprise. Those people are not able to be employed by other places if they go out to look for jobs. This kind of small project is sponsored by some enterprises and those people can get a basic salary (minimum wage of Shanghai) and all other social insurance etc. After the sunshine home, a rehabilitation station in a community health service centre was visited. This rehabilitation station is specialized for children having cerebral palsy since There are more than 20 therapists and around 40 children will come to have rehabilitation practice everyday. The station has collaboration with a children s hospital affiliated to Fudan University. Normally, the children first get 2

3 diagnosis and rehabilitation program from the hospital and then come to the rehabilitation station to practice. According to the staff, the fee families need to pay is not much after the medical insurance and government subsidy on those children and there is no waiting list which means almost all the diagnosed children can get their treatment properly if the families bring them. Beside the two large rehabilitation centres at city level, there are 18 district level rehabilitation centres located in hospitals appointed by the districts each district has one and 224 rehabilitation stations located in community health service centres. National Sunshine Home There is a national program in China called Sunshine Home for people who are intellectually challenged, having mental diseases or severe disabilities. The central government has located 600 million RMB for this program from (200 million per year). There are three kinds of organization/people can apply for the funding. The first category is existed or new organizations that people intellectually challenged, having mental diseases or severe disabilities are living in day and night. The second category is existed or new organizations that people as mentioned before go to get day care services including meals, exercises etc. The third category is people as mentioned before living with families at home. Normally, people mentioned here are aged above 16, jobless and poor. Organizations or people themselves can apply for at least 500 RMB/person/year funding from the local disabled person s federation. 500 RMB is the minimum amount and some rich places can give up to 1200 RMB like Beijing. Shanghai s Sunshine Home program is a bit different from the national one because it only takes intellectually challenged people while the national program also includes the ones with mental diseases. Shanghai had another program called Sunshine Garden of Heart for those with mental diseases. In the same building CDR visited Sunshine Home, there is a Sunshine Garden of Heart. The people there have almost the same activities everyday but just belong to another program. 3

4 Visit to Dolphin Bay Dolphin Bay is a cerebral palsy (cp) children rehab centre which is sponsored by a CP children foundation. On May 19th, 2011 Central Denmark Region Shanghai Office with representatives from Gedved company R82 visited the place. Dolphin Bay is not big, located together with a clinic but still has physical rehab room, speech rehab room etc. Those different rooms for different functions rehab. There were only 2 therapists on duty everyday so probably only around 10 children can have exercise a day. The person received the Danish delegation called Mr. Lin is a project manager from the foundation that mainly helps poor families with cp child from other places to get treatment and rehab training. He said that since cp children in Shanghai are mostly taken care by Shanghai medical insurance and funded by Shanghai Disabled Persons Federation to get rehab exercise so the families they help are mostly from other places and poor. Mr. Lin said there is a project going on called Dolphin Bay project. In this project, they try to train 500 therapists all over China and every therapist tries to help 5 cp children to get rehab exercise. At the same time, cp children's parents get training on how to take care and train their children at home. This project will last for 2 years from this year. Mr. Lin said they have cooperation with different levels of disabled persons' federation all over China to do this project. R82 mentioned that they could offer some training on general knowledge of cp children s standing, walking, rehab exercise etc combining uses of their products. Mr. Lin said it would be nice and at the same time implied that the companies can donate facilities/tools to the rehab centre as a way to let more parents see the products and to build relationship with disabled persons federations through. The therapists showed the visitors what they normally do to help those cp children get physical exercise. R82 praised them saying they were doing a good job and they were glad they came and got a lot of useful information. 4

5 China now world's third-biggest tourist attraction General News China has overtaken Spain on the list of the world's top tourism destinations, becoming the third-largest attraction, a senior tourism official said. Man Hongwei, director of the international coordination department at the China National Tourism Administration, said at a press conference that the number of international arrivals staying at least one night reached million last year, up 9.4 percent on China's appearance in the top three was its first. It follows France, which had million arrivals, and the United States, which had million, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. The spending by outbound Chinese tourists ranked fourth-largest worldwide last year. The number of outbound travellers hit million in 2010, which was up 20.4 percent year-on-year. The industry's total revenue maintained an annual average growth of 15 percent during the past five years. Residents register to postpone retirement Local employees have started to register to postpone their retirement age after Shanghai started the trial about seven months ago, authorities said. The policy is designed to alleviate pressure on the city's pension fund due to the rapid growth of Shanghai's aged population. It allows residents, excluding government employees, to draw their pension later than the retirement age if they keep working, as long as their employer agrees. Bao Danru, vice director of the Shanghai Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said about half of the applicants work for private companies and most had good salaries of about 10,000 yuan (US$1,530) a month. If a private business owner thinks an employee can continue being an asset even after reaching the retirement age, the company can retain the worker and pay social insurance with fewer restrictions than state-owned companies or government agencies, Bao said. The retirement age, which was set about 50 years ago, is 60 for men and 50 or 55 for women, depending on the job. The city's new policy states men can retire as late as 65 and women at 60. Low-carbon town planned near Disney The Pudong New Area plans to build a low-carbon town near the future Shanghai Disneyland site in the next five years to attract tourists and better support the soon-to-be world's largest amusement park, a post-world-expo plan revealed yesterday. The new town, designed with a countryside flavor, will cover an area of 4.6 square kilometers around Shanghai Disneyland, and will be able to accommodate 100,000 people after completion, said the designer, Zero Carbon System, which built and operated the London Zero Carbon Case Pavilion at the World Expo last year. 5

6 Total investment in the country's first low-carbon town will reach 8.6 billion yuan (US$1.32 billion) and the project is expected to be completed in 2016, officials said. The designer said most energy used in the new town will be from solar, wind and biomass sources. Meanwhile, water source heat pumps from the Huangpu River will cool residential buildings, commercial centres and other public facilities in the summer. US$4.6b boost for public health China is to pump US$4.6 billion into expanding public health services this year, including free vaccinations and routine checkups for children under six. The Ministry of Health said yesterday that the funds will be used to upgrade health programs and services and it raised the age limit for children to receive 13 free health services from 3 to 6. Free services such as comprehensive physical examinations will also be available to pregnant women and people over 65. The move is part of the country's US$124 billion effort to reform the health system over three years in a program which began in April Public health care in China has been underfunded for years and the high cost of and poor access to health services are among the public's biggest complaints. One bottle of milk for free Hongkou District, one of the 18 districts in Shanghai decided to start giving a bottle of milk for free to every elderly person above 90 years old everyday from April 1, There are 5,943 elderly people who can benefit from the policy and the district government will allocate 5 million RMB for this program every year. European companies perform well in China European companies performed strongly in China in 2010, according to a survey released yesterday by the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China. About 78 percent of the survey respondents said their revenue rose significantly last year and 71 percent reported a jump in their net profit, said the European Chamber Business Conference Survey

7 Contact info: Central Denmark Region, Shanghai Office Rikke Hjuler Mikkelsen Chief Representative Tel / Add. Shanghai Technology Innovation Center, Room 711, Building 2, No. 100 Qin Zhou Road, Shanghai , China Vicky Wang International Development Officer Tel / Add. Shanghai Technology Innovation Center, Room 711, Building 2, No. 100 Qin Zhou Road, Shanghai , China 7