Sports have 'decisive significance' for disabled

Inspiring performances at recent para-sports events are promoting sports participation among disabled people.

The world tuned in to watch top athletes challenge human limits at the IAAF World Championships this month in the United Kingdom. But in July, at the same London stadium, disabled athletes from China surpassed the accomplishments of their able-bodied counterparts by winning 30 gold medals, the most of any delegation, at the World Para Athletics Championships.

It was another outing for China's para-athletes, following the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games, where the team won 237 medals, including 105 golds, to dominate the Summer Paralympics awards for the fourth consecutive time since Athens in 2004.