Sanya rated as ‘China’s advanced city in disabled-friendly construction’
Sanya was named as one of the 100 Chinese cities in disabled-friendly construction in 2007. Over the past 4 years, Sanya has scored tremendous achievements in constructing disabled-friendly facilities.
The construction achievements include setting-up go-ahead blind sidewalks and warning blind sidewalks on main roads; setting up signboards of barrier-free facilities; setting up disabled(only)toilets; and constructing household barrier-free facilities for poor disabled families.
From January, 2011 to May, 2012, Sanya has renovated 5.2 kilometers of blind sidewalks’ tiles and rebuilt household barrier-free facilities for 46 poor disabled families. Sanya will push forward the construction of disabled-friendly facilities, making them meet national standards by 2015.