This article discusses the proper use of the Disabled Persons Employment Security Fund by the Shenzhen Service Center for Disabled Persons. Media outlets reported that Shenzhen’s Service Center for Disabled Persons receives several tens of millions of yuan annually, but uses only several millions in the programs it implements to help local disabled persons. The Shenzhen Disabled Persons’ Federation has spoken up to defend the Center’s operations and expenditures, noting that its use of the Disabled Persons Employment Security Fund is not required to be made public.
The article goes on interviewing several professors and activists who explain that in order to avoid this kind of controversy and increase transparency, the government should pass a “Law on the disclosure of public information” to reinforce the current “Guidelines on the disclosure of government information” and extend the obligation to inform the public on how funds are used to social organizations such as the Federation.
