There are 5 million blind people in the whole world. And China is taking the first place of this problem. China accounts about 18% of blind people. Most of them can’t live independent; they all need someone’s help.
Also we can know that 90% of blind people are living in modern cities. For example: Beijing (capital), Shanghai and etc. Тhe total number of blind people in China at any given time expressed as a percentage of the total population -- is around 0.4%. According to the facts from internet, the country's ever-increasing blind population has already exceed the total population in such countries as Denmark, Finland or Norway.
In the whole world main problem ob blindness is cataract. Because of only the cataract blindness accounts 2.5 million people in the world. Each year about 400,000 people become blind in one moment because of it. Cataract predominantly a disease associated with ageing. According to the famous Chinese websites, we can know that the reason of blindness in China not only cataract but also it include cornea diseases, trachoma, glaucoma.
I took some interviews from 2 Chinese people. When I talked to my Chinese teacher from high school I was pretty surprised. First she told me about problems of blind people. It started past years ago, when with time there are more and more blind people was with the same objects to government. Chinese population doesn’t respect blind people. They are behaving to them very bad. Population doesn’t see any personality in them. They are acting to blind people like to animals. And every time people’s words were such a: “Blind people-they are not independent, they can’t help to our country. They can’t do anything. They are not useful for China.” So in my mind first thought was government in China need people only for useful thing? It’s so selfish and not correct. I think everyone will agree with me. Nowadays there’s so many ways to cure blind