21-29  Basic Statistics on Special Education by Region (2003)                
          (person)  
Region              
Number of Number of New Student Student Number of    
Schools Graduates Enrollment Enrollment Staff and #Full-time  
(unit)       Teachers Teachers  
             
  National Total 1551 44533 48840 364740 40853 30349
  Beijing        25 1007 647 6177 929 667
  Tianjin        22 535 230 3167 711 458
  Hebei          97 1987 1794 13481 2097 1605
  Shanxi         36 422 782 5852 1116 870
  Inner Mongolia 31 249 402 3037 813 610
  Liaoning       75 790 803 8429 2474 1854
  Jilin          45 466 477 4748 1775 1237
  Heilongjiang   71 536 830 6404 2546 1926
  Shanghai       31 2143 1361 11563 1629 985
  Jiangsu        108 3988 3857 32222 3346 2456
  Zhejiang       63 2561 1947 15357 1445 1133
  Anhui          71 2032 2582 18849 1295 973
  Fujian         77 6677 5270 40921 1505 1251
  Jiangxi        49 1025 2262 14854 509 413
  Shandong       138 2012 2308 17154 5135 3585
  Henan          123 1977 2634 19146 3194 2510
  Hubei          76 774 1118 7908 1633 1243
  Hunan          55 2192 2154 13634 1219 923
  Guangdong      67 3396 3462 27073 1655 1311
  Guangxi        47 1579 2918 15874 719 495
  Hainan         4 71 213 1665 100 65
  Chongqing      41 1891 1513 14483 697 543
  Sichuan        70 2090 2550 15839 1278 994
  Guizhou        38 1237 2051 13812 675 517
  Yunnan         25 1759 2619 17621 610 442
  Tibet          2 11 30 162 39 23
  Shaanxi        28 129 304 2143 662 481
  Gansu          14 466 975 7673 394 294
  Qinghai        8 212 240 2383 153 128
  Ningxia        6 55 138 1246 149 120
  Xinjiang       8 264 369 1863 351 237
             
a) Special education refers to the education for the blind, deaf, deaf-mute and the mentally retarded.