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The man convicted for the first of the five school attacks, Zheng Minsheng, has been executed already. Zheng killed eight children in a knife attack in the southern province of Fujian on March 23. Zheng's execution came one day before Xu attacked the school in Taixing
-- and on the same day that another man, Chen Bingkang, broke into a primary school in the southern province of Guangdong and stabbed 18 students and a teacher. The 33-year-old Chen, a teacher, had been on sick leave because of mental illness. Experts say China has failed to adequately address the mental health needs of its citizens. A study in the British medical journal The Lancet last year showed about 173 million Chinese, or 17.5 percent of the population, have some form of mental disorder, ranging from depression to schizophrenia. The vast majority of those people
-- about 158 million -- have never received any kind of professional help. At least three of the recent attackers had a history of mental health problems. Two committed suicide after carrying out the attacks. All the attackers have been men in their 30s or 40s. They all used knives and hammers
-- guns are tightly controlled in China and obtaining them is virtually impossible.
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