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"Stop. Sit. Go!" You Liang, 33, instructs "Stone," a Labrador Retriever, at a simulated crossing in Dalian.

 

You and Stone are taking training courses at the China Guide Dog Training Center, established late last month, in this city in northeast China's Liaoning Province. The center is the first of its kind in the country.

 

Six adult dogs are currently undergoing training courses, including Stone. In the near future, Stone will become the guide dog for You, a singer for the Dalian Disabled Art Troupe, who is blind.

 

You is able to live and do housework by herself, but she needs help whenever she goes out.

 

"I hope the guide dog will help me a lot and relieve my mother of the burden," You said.

 

"Guide dogs are in great demand in the country and we are doing pioneering work," said the center's director Wang Jingyu, an animal behavior expert.

 

The dogs currently being trained will be presented to chosen individuals free of charge, Wang said, adding that he hopes the center can provide guide dogs for people who take part in the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing.

 

He said he hoped the center could train 20 dogs every year in the coming five years.

 

When the establishment of the center was first reported last month, the center received an active response from both home and abroad.

 

"Quite a few people want to donate dogs to us," he said.

 

Xia Jun, a businessman from central China's Hunan Province, said he was prepared to send his golden retriever by plane.

 

He said he had refused a friend's offer of 100,000 yuan (US$12,500) for his 9-month-old dog and insisted that the dog be donated to the center as soon as he learned the news.

 

Wang said the dog would undergo a medical examination and an evaluation before the training began, as is standard procedure.

 

Early next month, Wang said he will go to Beijing to receive two puppies given by the Japan Guide Dog Association.

 

"We'll choose from among hundreds of puppies for would-be guide dogs," Wang said.

 

Some of them will be donated and others will be purchased.

 

Once accepted, the puppies will be raised in foster families to begin social and obedience training.

 

They will learn to take orders to walk, sit, stop, distinguish traffic lights, walk across zebra crossings, avoid barriers, and take blind pedestrian walks.

 

Last month the local government decided to list the center as one of the scientific programs for financial support.

 

"We are glad to have support from the whole of society to expand our non-profit course," Wang said.

 

However, Wang said there are "also some worries and concerns."

 

Many people may feel their lives intruded upon when people enter public places with their guide dogs.

 

"With a guide dog, a visually impaired person could come across some trouble if he enters a restaurant or a hotel, or wants to take a plane," Wang said.

 

(China Daily May 29, 2006)

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