1. WHO, Country Health Indicators: China (2005). 
2. WHO, Human Development Report 2006, Country Sheet: China (2004). 
3. WHO, Human Development Report 2006, Country Sheet: China (2004). 
4. WHO, Human Development Report 2006, Country Sheet: China (2000-2005). 
5. WHO, Human Development Report 2006, Country Sheet: China (2004). 
6. WHO, Human Development Report 2006, Country Sheet: China (2004). 
7. E-mail correspondence from Leshan Tan, country director of China, dated Oct. 18, 2006.
8. Ibid.
9. WHO, Country Health Indicators: China (2004). 
10. WHO, Country Health Indicators: China (2003).
11. WHO, Country Health Indicators: China (2003).
12. S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D Eyta’ale, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. Pokharel, S. Mariotti, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, (2004) “Global Data on Visual Impairment in the Year 2002” 82:11. This number was estimated based on population surveys from all Western Pacific Region countries in the same mortality stratum as China.
13. Ibid.  This number was not calculated, but came directly from the text of the article. Based on a prevalence rate of 0.6%, there would be 7,870,254 blind in China.
14. Ibid.
15. S. Resnikoff, D. Pascolini, D Eyta’ale, I. Kocur, R. Pararajasegaram, G. Pokharel, S. Mariotti, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, (2004) “Global Data on Visual Impairment in the Year 2002” 82:11.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. C. Gilbert and A. Foster, (2001) Bulletin of the World Health Organization, “Childhood Blindness in the Context of VISION 2020 – The Right to Sight,” 79:3.
19. VISION 2020, IAPB, WHO, State of the World’s Sight VISION 2020: The Right to Sight 1999-2005.
20. 17 ophthalmologists per million = 22,299 in a population of 1.3 billion.