If possible, the authorities should provide some sort of job to beggars who can work, and permit the elderly and the disabled to continue to beg in specific zones. I think most of the beggars don't want to keep begging for life. Society should be kind to them.

Lizzy, on China Daily website

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(China Daily 09/13/2012 page9)