On 9 December 2012 morning, Shuaib Chalklen, Special Rapporteur on Disability of the Commission for Social Development from the United Nations, and Zhang Guo Zhong, the officer from the Secretariat of Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons of The United Nations (UN) the Department of Economics and Social Affairs (DESA), accompanied by the key officers from the China Disabled Persons’ Federation visited the Guangdong Disabled Persons Information Industrial Park situated at Nansha, Guangdong.

Ms. Joyce Poon, General Manager of EPRO TechSoft, represented the management unit of the Park to welcome the UN officers and introduce them the situation of disabled persons’ involvement in economic activities in the park. The Officers later on toured around and visited EPRO’s Nansha Contact Centre, Guangzhou Canyou Software Limited and cloisonne training classes for disabled persons, to gain a better understanding in the learning and working situation of hundreds of disabled person in Guangzhou.

The UN officers showed appreciation and recognition towards China Disabled Persons Federation, for their works in establishing a sustainable development model to centralize the employment of disabled persons in Nansha Industrial Park with suitable economic activities.