What the Special in China?

The newly formed special education schools under Mao’s rule suffered greatly “with many schools closing and the number of students falling from 1,176 before 1966 to 600 by 1976” (Deng, Meng, Mcbrayer, & Farnworth 291).

China belongs to the continent of Asia. Bordering countries are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Burma, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.

Mao can be placed responsible for the increase of special education and ultimately the halt on special education practices in China.

Especially for the most-visited attractions, travelling with a local expert is helpful to avoid crowds and have an informative and enjoyable trip.

Did you know that the whole of China is in one time zone- +8 hours despite it size.

China is also called the Flowery Kingdom, and many of the country’s flowers and fruits, such as the orchid and orange, are now being grown all over the world.

Few educational institutions serve special needs students. As of 2008, 1640 institutions specifically serve disabled people, with forty-six thousand teaching staff spread across those institutions.[

Did you know that the Great Wall of China is the only man-made object that could be seen with the human eye from outer space.

The 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing were hosted by China. The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing were the most expensive in the history. They were estimated to cost $40 billion.

Gunpowder was first invented by the Chinese for fire crackers which was also first invented by the Chinese.

The national anthem of China is called “Yiyonggjun Jinxingqu,” which means March of the Volunteers, and was written in 1935 by the poet Tian Han and composed by the artist Nie Er, honoring those who went to the front in battle with the Japanese invaders in northeast China in the 1930s.

In China, students with disabilities are usually separated from typical classrooms and placed in schools dedicated to special education. The first school dedicated to students with disabilities in China was established in 1987 in the city of Beijing. Currently this school has 60 staff members who teach more than 200 children in 17 classrooms.

For the past 4,000 years China has been the oldest continuous civilization on earth

Ping-pong was not invented in China, even though it is one of China’s most popular games. It started in Britain, where it’s called table tennis.

Did you know that ice cream was firs invented in China when the Chinese packed soft milk and rice mixture in snow.

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Stamp collecting is the number one hobby in China.
China has a dwarf theme park known as Kingdom of the Little People.

A complete cycle of the Chinese calendar take 60 years. It dates back 2600 BC and it the oldest known calendar in the world.

In ancient China, tickling was a form of torture performed on nobility because the recovery was quick and no marks were left.

Suspension bridges were first invented in China in 25 BC, 1800 years before such bridges were known in the wes

As the first place to domesticate pigs, we can be sure China knows a thing or two about making pork delicious.

Giant pandas (or bear cats) date back a few million years. They were considered as symbols of might and bravery.

Chinese developed the three levels of heaven- Heaven, Earth and Man which has greatly influenced landscape painting and flower arrangement.

China's achievements today, including several of the items on this list, can be credited to a deep sense of pragmatism, which assesses most situations by looking at the practical consequences of actions.

The custom of tying feet, also called golden lilies, which were seen as a very sexual thing, started among the female performers and members of the Chinese court during the Song dynasty.