From February 25 to 29, 2008, the Second Session of Training Course for Online Operation System of CCAA was held successively in Yichang, Hubei Province and Changsha, Hunan Province. Relevant staff members from 18 welfare institutions in Yichang and Jinzhou and 22 institutions in Changsha and Xiangtan took part in the training. Director General of CCAA Lu Ying and Deputy Director General Chu Xiaoying were present separately at the two provinces and gave the opening speech for the training course. Relevant officials from the Department of Civil Affairs in Hubei and Hunan were also present at the training course.

In the meeting, Director Lu Ying pointed that staff members in institutions should change their working concept, make creations and breakthroughs in the new fields, and study harder to meet the requirement on skills and knowledge for inter-country adoption in the new era. It was suggested that modern technologies be learned and the online operation system used so as to make their utmost effort to place orphaned and handicapped children with families. Director Lu also proposed suggestions to deal with the present situation and difficulties in inter-country adoption nationwide.

During the training, the students not only learned to prepare the files for special needs children, scan electric files, the installation and debugging of scanning machine and the use of operation system but also gave hand-on practices. Through learning the use of online operation system, the students became familiar with the characteristics and operational methods of the system and indicated that they would grasp the system and use it in helping the orphaned and handicapped children return to families as soon as possible.

The success of this training owes it to the sponsorship of the departments of civil affairs in Hubei and Hunan and the organization of Hubei Inter-country Adoption Center, Hunan Inter-country Adoption Center and Department of Civil Affairs in Yichang and Yichang Social Welfare Institution. Besides, US Children’s Hope International also supported this training. ASG Co. and Arthur and Carole Allen donated 50 sets of computer equipment for the online entrustment of special needs children, among which 40 sets were distributed to the above mentioned 40 welfare institutions and the rest 10 sets to 10 institutions in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. We would like to give our sincere gratitude to the institutions and individuals who have supported, cared for and helped the special needs children!