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Foot massage parlors are sprouting up all over China. In big cities, like Beijing, there are shops on many street (36)________, and foot massage chain stores employ thousands of workers. This (37)________industry is producing thousands of new jobs for the blind, who traditionally in Asia have been trained to do massage. The Chinese government says more than five million people work in the foot massage (38)________. Most of them come from poor rural areas, and getting jobs in the city rubbing other people’’s feet offers a way out of poverty. Workers at some shops have only (39)________ training, leaving them wide open to competition from (40)________ trained blind massage therapists, who promise to deliver medicinal (41)________ at a competitive price. Cao Jun has been blind from birth and he (42)________three foot massage parlors. "We have an advantage in terms of touching and feeling, so we are very confident that we do a better job than (43)________people," he says. Massage has traditionally been considered a profession for the blind in China, Japan and other Asian nations. Now (44)________________________. (45)________________________. Mr. Cao says his 10-year-old business is strictly for medicinal massage based on ancient Chinese theories of reflexology, which say (46)________________________.

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