HANGZHOU - "We are the same. If I had three days to see, I have only one dream: to look at my parents as much as I can," said Zhang Liangmin, the blind champion of women's discus of the eighth Chinese National Games for disabled.

October 15 is International Day of the Blind. In the Games, more than 200 blind athletes are fighting in eight events here.

"Sport makes me happy. It makes me feel that I'm nothing disabled," said Zhang, 25, who can hardly recognize the shape of her own hands at any distance.

Zhang is a lucky dog because for more blind athletes like her, maybe they won't get even one medal in their sporting career.

Liu Zhen was born in the world of darkness. Before she became an athlete at the age of 19 last year, Liu was a student in a special blind school.

"My hands never touched javelin before. When I first held it, my hands was totally out of control and shook so hard," recalled Liu.

After she gradually conquered her fear for the javelin, Liu began to learn other skills like run-up and throw. In the progress, Liu also "overcame the fear for life".

As the Asian Paralympic Committee president Dato' Zainal Abu Zarin commented, the eight-day national para games was not only a progress of education, but also a chance for change in people's mind.

"I didn't realized that the blind can compete in such a high technical level before. It also changed my whole way of looking at them. Maybe they cannot see the world, but their own world is of infinite beauty," said Wang Yan, a local audience of goalball.

The eighth Chinese National Games of Disabled opened here on October 11 in Hangzhou. The Games attracted a record more than 5,000 athletes in all and featured 18 sports mainly in Hangzhou and three neighbouring cities like Jiaxing.