Regarding admissions， to ensure that the rights of examinees with disabilities are fully protected， the Ministry ofEducation has clear regula-tions that colleges and universities shall not refuse students with physical disabilities as long as they can care for themselves， can complete their studies in the disciplines they have applied for， and their exam marks have reached the admission requirements.
To provide more opportunities to students with disabilities， the Min-istry of Education has ratified 22 higher education institutions to organize exams for them， and distinguished their admission plans from regular admissions. The state encourages institutions of higher education to open disciplines on special education. By June 2018， 61 colleges and universi-ties with regular four-year undergraduate courses were running disciplines on special education， with some 10，000 students. In 2018， higher voca-tional colleges in China provided 37 programs on special education.
Efforts have been made to develop inclusive education. In 2017，inclusive education was covered by the Regulations on the Education of Persons with Disabilities. Other policy papers， such as "China's Educa-tion Modernization 2035" and the "Phase-2 Special Education Promotion Plan （2017-2020）"， have also called for developing inclusive education.Across China efforts have been made to provide the support necessary for students with disabilities to go to regular schools， such as building more classrooms with resources for special education at regular schools and recruiting full-time and part-time teachers of special education. As a re-sult the number of students with disabilities at regular schools has seen a steady increase， from 191，000 in 2013 to 332，000 in 2018， an increase of 73.8 percent. Over the past decade， more than 50 percent of students with disabilities have been able to study at regular schools.
Public spending on special education has continued to grow. In the period from 2008 to 2015， the state introduced two construction pro-grams for special education schools， investing RMB7.14 billion to build，renovate， or expand 1，182 special education schools in China's central and western regions， and to support improved facilities in 61 institutions of higher education， secondary vocational schools and special education normal schools. Since 2014， the central government has increased the subsidies for special education to RMB410 million per year to cover all areas outside of Beijing， Tianjin and Shanghai.
Public spending on students with disabilities in compulsory educa-tion at regular and special education schools has increased to RMB6，000 per person per year. In some areas teachers of disabled students at regular schools， and those teaching home-schooled students， receive subsidies for special education teachers. In addition to state policies already in place，such as exemption from tuition and fees， free textbooks， and living subsi-dies for poor students in compulsory education， students with disabilities have also received subsidies from local governments， and the standards of the subsidies are improving. In some provinces and municipalities di-rectly under the central govemment， students with disabilities enjoy free education from elementary to senior high school.
East China Normal University and four other colleges and universi-ties have been selected to carry out a special education program to train excellent special education teachers， and the State Training Program for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers has sub-programs for train-
ing presidents and teachers of special education schools. By 2018 the pro-gram had trained 726 presidents and 10，298 teachers.
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