China will endeavor to ensure the educational opportunities of disabled persons in the next five years, said a State Council executive meeting in Beijing on Thursday.

The educational system for disabled persons should be improved in the next five years, guaranteeing the compulsory education of disabled children, and junior or senior education, said the meeting presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao.

Governments at different levels are required to press on their work, improving the lives of disabled persons in the next five years, said the "Outline of the 11th Five-Year Plan for the Disabled in China" deliberated and passed by the meeting.

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