In recent years, Pome County of Nyingchi City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has allocated special funds to implement the livelihood projects for the disabled, which has improved the living conditions of the disabled, and made their lives more secure and sustainable.

Improving the education level of the disabled

Pome County has formulated a series of preferential policies and student subsidy schemes to improve the learning mode of students in regular classes as well as the quality of teaching, and ensure that disabled children equally get basic public education services. Since this year, the county has granted student grants of 84,000 yuan to 21 disabled students and students from families of disabled, and formulated the programs for helping the disabled students according to the actual situation of the students. 28 disabled students have been enrolled in the regular class, and the coverage rate of basic public education service for disabled students has reached 100%.

Establishing the social security system for the disabled

Pome County has implemented the subsidy policy of the new rural cooperative medical system for the disabled. In 2019, the individual payment of rural licensed disabled people will be partially subsidized by the county finance. At the same time, Pome County has actively distributed assistive devices and wheelchairs to the disabled. Since this year, 211 assistive devices have been distributed.

Employment and entrepreneurship enrich the disabled

In recent years, Pome County has promoted the work of collecting employment security fund of the disabled well. In 2018, more than 947,500 yuan of employment security fund is collected. Pome County builds the entrepreneurship platforms for the disabled to steadily promote entrepreneurship and innovation. Since this year, a total of 13 entrepreneurship projects for the disabled meet the requirements of the entrepreneurship support projects at the autonomous region, city and county level, and 260,000 yuan is invested to help the disabled carry out the entrepreneurship activities. [Zhi Xinghua, Zhu Nan]