(JIN YU)

A teacher teaches students with hearing loss in a special-education school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The Ministry of Education announced on August 6 that subsidies worth 410 million yuan ($66.4 million) will be available for special-needs education this year, about 650 percent more than in 2013.

Total spending on special-needs education reached 9.2 billion yuan ($1.52 billion) in 2013, up from 1.7 billion yuan ($281 million) a decade ago.