The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and China's Protection of the Right to Education of the Persons with Disabilities

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Dis-abilities effective in 2008 explicitly stipulates that Member States shall guarantee that people with disabilities enjoy the right to education free from discrimination and without prejudice to equal opportunities. The Chinese government made amendments to the Law of the Peo-ple's Republic of China on the Protection of Persons with disabilities and the Regulation on the Education of the Persons with Disabilities and issued a series of rules on the Education of the Persons with Dis-abilities so as to actively implement the Convention. In recent years, the number and proportion of children with disabilities who receive education in China and the number of students with disabilities receiv-ing high school and higher education have been on the rise annually. However, there is still a gap in the level of education on all stages be-tween persons with disabilities and persons without, presenting a huge challenge for the achievement of the right to education of persons with disabilities. We should continue to actively fulfill the obligations pre-scribed by the Convention to protect the right to education, explore the construction of integrated education, support the maintenance system, strive to improve the quality of special education, allocate resources for the education of persons with disabilities, and emphasize the ap-praisal of the education of persons with disabilities.