Disability rights advocates call for equal employment

Disability rights activists urged top human resource authorities to disclose information about the employment of disabled people in the civil service on Monday, the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Incomplete statistics indicate that government departments have failed to recruit sufficient numbers from the country's 85 million disabled people.

Government departments in 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have only recruited 92 people with disabilities in the past five years, said Huang Rui, who sent an open letter to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on Monday, citing ministry statistics from 2011.