They are dreaming of their own, just like anyone who wants to make the game entertain, change, or even succeed.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Telephone” (ID: chuappgame), author Chen Jing, formerly titled “The Minority of Silence.”
If you use the “number of disabled people in China” as a keyword search, the search engine will tell you “85 million.” This figure was published on the official website of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation and was released in June 2012. The statistics have been cited since the end of 2010.
The number of disabled people in China accounts for more than 6% of the country’s total population. However, most ordinary people often need media to trigger their concern. It may be a thrilling accident or a mixed story. People habitually ask: Where are the disabled? But may not care about the answer to the question.
The total number of disabled persons on the official website of the China Disabled Persons’ Federation
July 21, 2019, The first Jiangsu Disabled E-sports Open Final was held in Nanjing .
This is the second time in the country to have a well-documented disabled e-sports competition. The last disabled e-sports competition was the 2016 “Heroic Heart Disabilities E-sports Competition”, which has been around for 3 years. In the preparatory stage alone, the number of applicants for the first Jiangsu Disabled E-sports Open far exceeded the imagination of the organizers. What made them even more unexpected was that more than 95% of the nearly 1,000 contestants were deaf.
I went to Nanjing to see these silences.