Inclusive education faces headwinds

The government's plan for inclusive education aims to have 95 percent of children with disabilities enrolled in mainstream schools by 2020. But the drive faces headwinds, including a lack of individual training plans and a teacher-evaluation system that doesn't adjust for lower student performance on average, which could hurt a teacher's chances of getting a pay raise.

Qiao Xueying would barely talk to her classmates when she first arrived as a transfer student at Wuhou Technology Park Primary School, an experimental school in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

"She was so introverted and felt so unsafe that she didn't play with other children," her teacher, He Ping, said. "She would scream when her grandfather dropped her off in the morning."