As a strong supporter of disabled welfare, Li Ka-shing donated HK$2 million (more than a quarter million U.S. dollars) in 1984 to the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) and another HK$105 million (US$13.4 million) in 1991 to help provide rehabilitation services for the 163,000 disabled persons in the mainland. Li's generosity helped 1.07 million cataract sufferers to regain their eyesight, provide iodine supplements for young women and babies, build facilities for the disabled in 30 provinces and autonomous regions, and develop prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services for mentally handicapped and polio victims.

In December 2000, Li teamed with CDPF again to launch the Cheung Kong New Milestone Plan and Implementation Program to be carried out from 2000 to 2005:

1. Establish 200 attachment stations for artificial limbs and train 400 attachment specialists. The goal is to provide 15,000 artificial limbs each year and to benefit 70,000 handicapped people within six years. The long-term goal is to provide artificial limbs for all 230,000 handicapped people in China by 2015.
   
2. Establish a listening and language recovery technical school and train 500 teachers for deaf students within six years.
   
3. Establish education institutions for blind children in 12 central provinces; promote the enrollment of blind children into regular schools; train 3,000 teachers capable of teaching blind children; offer financial aid to 25,650 blind kids and raise their school enrollment rate from 40 percent to about 80 percent.
   
4. Support the establishment of service centers for the disabled in 664 underdeveloped areas that will provide services for 14.8 million handicapped people.
   
5. Train 35,000 blind people to be masseurs.

Cheung Kong New Milestone Plan and Implementation Program

1. Supports education and health care for the disabled.
   
2. Promotes the development of welfare for the disabled.
   
3. Encourages disabled people to develop self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-reliance so that they can become contributing members of society.
   
4. Increases society's awareness and concern of welfare issues for the disabled.

Since the Program's implementation, several thousand handicapped people have received artificial limbs at one-tenth of their normal cost.