The chart below depicts the increasing proportion of learning disabilities attributed to the mentally retarded categorization. This is particularly significant because while most blind and mute students find themselves in separate schools than non-disabled students, the Chinese government does make greater efforts towards inclusion for mentally handicapped students, and their existing policies are extremely flawed and ineffective. This means that while learning disabled students are being incorporated into classes with non-disabled students, they aren't being presented the same opportunities to succeed since they are typically without the basic groundwork for education, which handicapped students usually develop through IEPs and separate classrooms at a young age in other countries. China lacks a thorough approach to IEPS for students at any age, and despite what was mentioned above, prefers to keep disabled students in private environments far more than other nations such as the United States and Canada.
(UNESCO, 2000)
The Chinese government has made no effort towards developing collegiate-level education programs for handicapped students. Rather, it is constantly struggling at a far more basic level from the failure to be more inclusive with special education. With much of China's population spread out in rural areas, it is of far greater difficulty to address all of the needs of handicapped students since learning facilities in themselves are difficult to access, let alone those for disabled learners.