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The International Paralympic Committee will elect a new governing board for the organization on Friday as part of the ongoing IPC General Assembly in Abu Dhabi.


Zhang Haidi from China is in a four-way race with Brazil's Andrew Parsons Jeremy Hill Elite Jersey , Denmark's John Petersson and Canada's Patrick Jarvis for the top IPC post, replacing the current president, Philip Craven of Britain.


Zhang is the first Chinese candidate to vie for the job of IPC President. The 61-year-old is the Executive Chairperson of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee, as well as the head of China's National Paralympic Committee.


In 2008, Zhang was first elected as Chairperson of the China Disabled Persons Federation, taking over from Deng Pufang. She would be re-elected five years later.


In 2014 Trent Brown Elite Jersey , Zhang was chosen as the Chairperson of Rehabilitation International and, while serving as Vice President of the Bid Committee, she helped Beijing win the rights to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics the following year.


Zhang then steered China's delegation to a successful showing at the 2016 Rio Summer Paralympics. Her candidacy to succeed Philip Craven as the head of the IPC was officially launched in June.


Zhang Haidi has long been an inspirational figure in China. Her story of overcoming her disability and helping improve others' lives is required reading in primary school textbooks across the country.


Zhang taught herself multiple foreign languages from a young age including English, German, and Japanese.


As a writer and novelist for nearly 35 years, her popular works include reportage and translations.


WASHINGTON Cordarrelle Patterson Elite Jersey , Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The real median household income in the U.S. increased by 3.2 percent in 2016, and the official poverty rate decreased by 0.8 percentage points, indicating that continued economic growth and dropping unemployment rate made American households richer, according to Census Bureau data released on Tuesday.


Median household income in the United States in 2016 was 59,039 dollars, an increase in real terms of 3.2 percent from the 2015 median income of 57 Ja'Whaun Bentley Elite Jersey ,230. This is the second consecutive annual increase in median household income.


The nation's official poverty rate in 2016 was 12.7 percent, with 40.6 million people in poverty, 2.5 million fewer than in 2015. The 0.8 percentage point decrease from 2015 to 2016 represents the second consecutive annual decline in poverty.


Historic data show that the 2016 poverty