Public Services for Rural People with Disabilities During the Implementation of Rural Revitalization Strategy:Practical Challenges and Adaptation Strategies
This new era has witnessed profound changes occurred in the cause of persons with disabilities in rural areas in China.Amid the process of the total population reaching the peak while the rural population is continuously decreasing in the country,the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy is facing a most severe,prominent and acute challenge,namely the increasingly weakening scale effect and prominent fragility of rural public services.The persons with disabilities in rural areas,half of whom have severe disabilities,comprising an increasing proportion of the total population.Furthermore,the aging level of the rural people with disabilities is significantly higher than the average level,and the continual downsizing of households with members with disabilities leads to the diminishing of the most crucial familial caregiving resources.So in the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy,it is necessary to seize the opportunities for rural industrial development,expand employment fields and comprehensively improve the social security system for rural people with disabilities,and enhance the service capabilities of families,communities,and grassroots organizations for persons with disabilities through the establishment of a family-based care system for rural people with disabilities,which will also be the key to improving public services for this group.
Rural revitalizationPeople with disabilities in rural areasSocial securityPublic services