Xiangyang Children's Welfare Institute is an orphanage. Children's welfare homes refer to social welfare institutions that provide services for orphans and disabled children. It is established by the state and managed by the civil affairs department. The adopted children shall be raised in a unified way and managed in different classes. An orphanage is defined as a child who has no parents, is abandoned, and is refused to be raised by relatives. Xiangyang Children's Welfare Institute provides adoption services and promotes the spirit of rescue. Families adopting orphans and abandoned babies are unable to take care of units that adopt disabled children and provide orphans and disabled children with special education, rehabilitation, medical care and artificial limbs. So Xiangyang Children's Welfare Institute is an orphanage.