Summary: Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the China Zhi Gong Party (CZGP) on its 100th anniversary, praising its contributions to China's revolution, construction, and reform under the leadership of the CCP. Wang Huning attended the celebration event in Beijing, relaying Xi's message and emphasizing the importance of the CZGP's continued adherence to CCP leadership and its role in national rejuvenation. Li Ganjie read Xi's letter at the event, while Jiang Zuojun gave a speech. The message also highlighted the CZGP's role in uniting overseas Chinese and contributing to national reunification. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping and President Trump held a phone call discussing the current state of U.S.-China relations and agreed to provide strategic guidance for the next phase of stable development. Xi emphasized the historical alliance between the two countries during World War II and highlighted the importance of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. Xi also expressed China's position on TikTok, emphasizing the need for fair market rules and a non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies in the U.S., urging the U.S. to avoid unilateral trade restrictions. Trump affirmed the importance of the U.S.-China relationship, expressed support for resolving the TikTok issue, and emphasized the need to maintain world peace.
Summary: The State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "The Successful Practice of the Party's Governance Strategy for Xinjiang in the New Era." The white paper outlines ten aspects of Xinjiang governance, emphasizing the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core's strategic approach to the region. It highlights the achievement of social stability and long-term security as the primary goal and the modernization of the governance system under the "Party's Governance Strategy for Xinjiang in the New Era." The document asserts that this strategy has found a correct path for development and security in Xinjiang, contributing to the advancement of Chinese-style modernization. The white paper's publication coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
Summary: The State Council Information Office released a white paper on September 19th, titled "The Practice and Achievements of China in Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in the New Era." The white paper highlights the advancement of women's rights and gender equality as a crucial component of China's modernization. It details China's efforts to integrate women's development into national economic and social development plans. The document emphasizes women's contributions to economic development, democratic participation, cultural advancement, social governance, and ecological progress. China expresses its willingness to collaborate with other countries to advance women's development globally.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting, focusing on ecological environment protection and the construction of a "Beautiful China." The meeting emphasized balancing high-quality development with high-level environmental protection, as well as the importance of deepening ecological civilization reforms. The council also discussed implementing domestic product standards in government procurement, intended as a move to provide national treatment for foreign-invested enterprises in the procurement sector, but also emphasizing fair competition. Finally, the meeting discussed and approved in principle a draft revision to the Banking Supervision and Administration Law to be submitted to the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
Summary: In August, China's civil aviation sector achieved record highs in transportation volume, exceeding 15 billion tonne-kilometers for the first time. Total transport turnover increased by 8.0% year-on-year, passenger traffic rose by 3.3%, and cargo and mail traffic increased by 13.3%. Domestic passenger and freight transport experienced growth, while international routes saw even more substantial increases. From January to August, the civil aviation sector demonstrated continued overall growth across various transportation metrics.
Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference on September 19th, it was reported that China has actively promoted climate change mitigation and carbon neutrality efforts, building the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, achieving its 2030 nationally determined contribution goals for wind and solar power capacity ahead of schedule. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China's carbon dioxide emissions intensity has continued to decline. The construction of the national carbon market is also progressing, with the inclusion of the steel, cement, and aluminum smelting industries this year. As of September 18th, the cumulative transaction volume of allowances in the national carbon emission trading market reached 714 million tons, with a cumulative turnover of 48.961 billion yuan.
Summary: Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan, China has made solid progress in its intelligent manufacturing program, establishing over 35,000 basic-level, 7,000 advanced-level, and 230+ excellent-level smart factories. The country's manufacturing robot density has reached 470 units per 10,000 people, far exceeding the global average. Significant breakthroughs have occurred in intelligent manufacturing equipment and system solutions within sectors like photovoltaics, power batteries, and new energy vehicles. This advancement indicates a new phase of intelligent manufacturing characterized by full-factor collaboration.
Summary: The article highlights the opening of the Tianshan Victory Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, in Xinjiang. This tunnel significantly reduces travel time across the Tianshan Mountains from three hours to approximately twenty minutes. The tunnel features artistic murals depicting Xinjiang's scenery. The photograph accompanying the article shows workers painting the tunnel's interior on September 19th.
Summary: Ahead of the Global Summit of Women, China released a white paper, "The Practices and Achievements of Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in China in the New Era," highlighting the achievements and contributions of Chinese women. The document emphasizes women's roles as builders of great endeavors, advocates of civilized customs, and pursuers of dreams. It cites examples such as female scientists comprising 45.8% of the workforce and volunteer activities undertaken by women's groups. The white paper references Xi Jinping's statement that "development cannot be separated from women," indicating a commitment to further empowering women to contribute to Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang will attend the 80th UN General Assembly in New York from September 22-26, announced by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson. Spokesperson Lin Jian stated China hopes to strengthen the UN's role amid global challenges as it approaches its 80th anniversary, and that the General Assembly provides an opportunity for international cooperation. Lin Jian stated Li will comprehensively introduce China's views on the international situation, global issues, and the work of the United Nations, as well as the global governance initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping. He also expressed that China is willing to work with all parties to promote the UN to revitalize its authority and vitality in the new era.
Summary: A State Council Information Office white paper released on September 19, titled "China's Practice and Achievements in Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in the New Era," outlines China's accomplishments in gender equality and women's development, particularly since the 18th Party Congress. Huang Xiaowei, Vice-Chairman of the State Council Women and Children Working Committee, highlighted the unprecedented support from the Party and state for women's development. Ma Liejian, Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation, discussed the establishment of a comprehensive maternal and child health service system. Feng Ling, Vice-Chairman of the All-China Women's Federation, noted the role of women in digital economy, highlighting training and support programs. China is reported to have engaged in global governance on women's issues, including establishing an award with the United Nations and maintaining connections with numerous international organizations.
Summary: This white paper outlines China's commitment to promoting gender equality and women's development under the leadership of the Communist Party, highlighting achievements in poverty alleviation, health, education, and social security for women. It emphasizes the role of women in economic development, political participation, cultural advancement, and ecological conservation within China. The document also details China's engagement in global governance on women's issues, including supporting the UN, promoting South-South cooperation, and addressing challenges like climate change and humanitarian crises, while advocating for a fairer international environment for women. There is no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations in the document.
Summary: At the 70th anniversary celebration of the Foreign Affairs University, Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated that under the guidance of Xi Jinping's diplomatic thought, China's diplomacy aims to build a community with a shared future for mankind. He urged the university to cultivate talent to contribute to this goal and to support major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. Wang Yi also encouraged students to connect their aspirations with the needs of the motherland and contribute to major-country diplomacy. Representatives from various ministries, foreign envoys, and university delegates attended the event.
Summary: A symposium for the 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Latin American Countries Special) was held in Beijing, bringing together young poets from 15 Latin American countries and China. Participants discussed the value and function of poetry and artistic innovation, emphasizing the importance of cultural heritage. The symposium underscored the deep foundation of China-Latin America literary exchange and the need to strengthen translation efforts. Attendees expressed that poetry can serve as a lasting bond for China-Latin America civilization exchange, contributing to the building of a China-Latin America community with a shared future. The event, themed "Echoes of Civilization," was organized by the China Writers Association and the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department.
Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu stated that China has made significant strides in ecological and environmental quality during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. According to Vice Minister Guo Fang, the country is establishing a "two-level, three-category, one-list" ecological environment zoning control system. Vice Minister Yu Huiwen noted that the central environmental protection inspection system has resolved prominent environmental issues. Vice Minister Li Gao reported progress on carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, including the expansion of renewable energy and the national carbon market. The article makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: The 2025 Air Force Aviation Open Activity and Changchun Air Show opened in Changchun, Jilin on September 19th. The event features over 10 aerial displays involving 16 aircraft types, as well as a static ground display of nearly 100 equipment models. Interactive elements such as flight simulators and drone operation areas are also included. No officials were mentioned in the provided article.
Summary: At a UN headquarters event co-hosted by the Chinese Mission to the UN and China Daily, representatives discussed the importance of the UN's role in global governance as its 80th anniversary approaches. Chinese Permanent Representative to the UN, Fu Cong, highlighted China's Global Governance Initiative as aligned with the UN charter and responsive to global needs. Speakers emphasized the need for multilateralism and international cooperation in addressing global challenges. Jeffrey Sachs from Columbia University noted China's Global Governance Initiative, along with its other initiatives, as a major contribution to the world, assisting in achieving a future of peace, stability, and sustainable development. The event also touched on the importance of remembering World War II and the need for continued efforts to safeguard peace, with reference to the U.S.
Summary: Peng Liyuan, wife of Xi Jinping and UNESCO Special Envoy, and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay jointly attended and addressed the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education award ceremony in Beijing. Peng emphasized the importance of female science education in the age of AI and China's commitment to deepening cooperation with UNESCO. Azoulay thanked China for its support and praised Peng's contributions to global female education. Peng and Azoulay presented awards to representatives from Kenya and Lebanon. The event celebrated the 10th anniversary of the prize, which has awarded projects from 19 countries, and no mention was made of the United States.
Summary: The Beijing Xiangshan Forum, attended by representatives from over 100 countries and organizations, focused on jointly safeguarding international order and promoting peace. Participants highlighted China's commitment to world peace, referencing the 80th anniversary commemorations of victory in the War of Resistance against Japan. The forum emphasized China's Global Governance Initiative, which promotes sovereign equality and multilateralism, as crucial for maintaining international order. Attendees viewed the initiative as a platform for addressing global challenges within the UN framework and appealing to the Global South, offering an alternative to Western-dominated forums. The article frames China as a force for peace and stability in a turbulent world.
Summary: Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita in Beijing, stating that the China-Morocco strategic partnership is constantly improving under the guidance of both countries' leaders. Wang noted the international support for Xi Jinping's global governance initiatives. Bourita conveyed King Mohammed VI's greetings to Xi Jinping and affirmed Morocco's commitment to developing relations with China, welcoming Xi's global governance initiatives. The discussion did not appear to directly involve the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong met with Vanuatu's Minister of Internal Affairs, Nappet, in Beijing. Wang expressed China's willingness to work with Vanuatu to implement the Global Security Initiative and Global Governance Initiative proposed by Xi Jinping. He also stated China wanted to deepen cooperation in law enforcement, combating transnational crime, and fugitive repatriation through the China-Pacific Island Countries law enforcement capacity and police affairs cooperation ministerial dialogue mechanism, so as to promote the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Vanuatu. Nappet expressed gratitude for China's support and a desire to deepen practical cooperation in police law enforcement.
Summary: NPC Standing Committee Vice Chairman Peng Qinghua visited Russia from September 16-20 at the invitation of the Russian State Duma. Peng met with Chairman Volodin, Tatarstan leaders Minnikhanov and Mukhametshin, and co-chaired the fourth meeting of the China-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee joint working group with Deputy Chairman Babakov. Peng stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, Sino-Russian relations are at their best level in history, and that China is willing to work with Russia to promote the development of bilateral relations. The Russian side expressed its willingness to deepen strategic coordination with China and strengthen parliamentary exchanges at all levels. The article notes that Putin highly appreciates the global governance initiatives proposed by Xi Jinping.
Summary: Zhang Qingwei, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, attended a reception at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing celebrating the 80th anniversary of Vietnam's National Day. Zhang exchanged views with Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh on China-Vietnam relations in a warm and friendly atmosphere. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Vice Chairman Wang Yong met with a delegation from the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency's Political Research Center in Beijing. Wang Yong briefed the delegation on China's economic and social development and the CPPCC's work. He expressed the CPPCC's desire to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all sectors of Indonesian society to promote bilateral relations. The article does not mention the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a visit to Yerevan, National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Vice Chairperson Su Hui met with Armenian President Khachaturyan, conveying Xi Jinping's greetings and emphasizing the establishment of a strategic partnership between China and Armenia. Khachaturyan reciprocated Xi's greetings, affirmed Armenia's commitment to the strategic partnership, expressed support for Xi's global governance initiatives, and reiterated Armenia's adherence to the One China principle. Both parties expressed interest in strengthening cooperation across various sectors, including political, economic, educational, and connectivity, as well as international coordination within the UN framework. Su Hui, leading a CPPCC delegation, also met with Armenian National Assembly leaders Simonyan and Arshakyan.
Summary: Defense Minister Dong Jun met with Mongolian Defense Minister Bat-Erdene and Lao Defense Minister Khamliang in Beijing. Dong emphasized the importance of regional peace and stability amidst global changes, criticizing "hegemonism, unilateralism, and protectionism." He expressed China's willingness to work with neighboring countries to strengthen strategic trust and enhance defense cooperation, contributing to a shared future. Bat-Erdene affirmed Mongolia's priority of lasting friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation with China, seeking to strengthen exchanges in peacekeeping, border defense, and joint exercises. Khamliang expressed Laos' commitment to deepening military cooperation with China and promoting the Laos-China community with a shared future.
Summary: The Sixth China-Latin America Senior Defense Forum was held in Beijing, with representatives from 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries attending. Defense Minister Dong Jun delivered a keynote speech, emphasizing Xi Jinping's initiative to build a China-Latin America community with a shared future. Dong expressed China's willingness to work with Latin American countries to build a highly trustworthy, flexible, resilient, and close defense relationship, setting a model for South-South security cooperation. Latin American representatives expressed their desire to enhance mutual trust, friendship, and cooperation with the Chinese military. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An international symposium on "New Quality Productive Forces in the Process of Modernization" was held in Beijing, attended by over 200 representatives from 37 countries and regions. Participants, including diplomats, government officials, scholars, and business representatives, discussed the theoretical exploration, policy practice, and international experience of new quality productive forces. Attendees emphasized that China sees development as key to solving problems and innovation as the primary driver. They also stated that developing new quality productive forces is vital for high-quality development and building a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization. The symposium was co-hosted by the State Council Information Office, the National Development and Reform Commission, and others.
Summary: China's Permanent Mission to Geneva held a dialogue on accessibility for all at the Palais des Nations. Ambassador Chen Xu delivered a keynote speech, outlining China's approach to accessibility and its commitment to providing "Chinese wisdom and solutions" to global accessibility efforts. Chen advocated for a people-centered approach, development-based human rights, rule of law guarantees, and mutually beneficial cooperation in promoting global accessibility. The dialogue included a video showcasing China's Rehabilitation University and the UN Human Rights Council's resolution on accessibility. Participants praised China's achievements and leadership in the field.
Summary: The China Machinery Engineering Corporation completed the Attanagalla water supply project in Sri Lanka, providing clean water to over 600,000 residents. At the inauguration ceremony, Sri Lankan Minister Wijitha Herath highlighted the project's significance and strengthened Sri Lanka-China relations due to Chinese assistance. Chinese Ambassador Qi Zhenhong stated the project would improve public health, livelihoods, and local economic development. The project includes a water treatment plant with a daily capacity of 54,000 cubic meters and a nearly 590-kilometer pipeline network.
Summary: This white paper outlines the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) commitment to women's development and gender equality as integral to its national agenda. It asserts the CCP's leadership as crucial for women's advancement and details the legal and policy frameworks implemented to safeguard women's rights and promote their participation in economic, political, and social spheres. The paper highlights achievements in poverty reduction, healthcare, education, and social security for women, while also emphasizing their contributions to economic development, democratic participation, cultural prosperity, and ecological conservation. It also touches on China's efforts in promoting global women's development through participation in global governance and multilateral cooperation, particularly within the context of the UN and the Belt and Road Initiative, with a focus on South-South cooperation. The paper states China's willingness to collaborate with other nations to address global challenges and create a better world for women.
Summary: This white paper outlines China's approach to advancing women's development and gender equality under the leadership of the CCP, emphasizing adherence to the "fundamental national policy of gender equality." It details achievements in poverty alleviation, health, education, social security, and promoting women's roles in economic, political, cultural, and ecological spheres. The document highlights China's commitment to international cooperation on women's issues, including supporting UN initiatives and promoting women's development in Belt and Road countries through "South-South cooperation." It also addresses China's efforts to combat climate change with gender mainstreaming. The United States is not explicitly mentioned.
Summary: Hu Heping, Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department, highlighted the significance of publishing *Xi Jinping: On Governance* Volume V, emphasizing its reflection of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Qu Qingshan, President of the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Central Committee, stated that the book embodies upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, answering questions about China and the world, with the overall goal of advancing China's modernization. Du Zhanyuan, Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration, noted the book's global reach and its contribution to international understanding of China. Lin Jianhua, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Institute of Chinese Modernization Studies, CASS, argued that Chinese-style modernization offers a new model for developing countries and contributes to a shared future for mankind.
Summary: A nationwide online political education course (思政大课) themed "Promoting the Great Spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japan and Being Proud Chinese People" was jointly organized by the Ministry of Education and other entities. The course, divided into sections for different grade levels, reached over 150 million students and teachers across 200,000 schools. Educators emphasized balancing historical accuracy with age-appropriate content and incorporating interactive elements to engage students. Teachers highlighted the importance of connecting historical events with contemporary issues to foster a sense of national pride and responsibility. Some instructors emphasized the importance of learning from revolutionary heroes, like Yang Jingyu. One professor emphasized the need to combat biased views against China and promote the idea of a shared future for mankind.
Summary: A "thought and politics" (思政) online course about the Anti-Japanese War, broadcast by People's Daily, reached over 150 million students nationwide. The course aims to invigorate "thought and politics" education by employing engaging narratives and modern technology. It emphasizes innovative teaching methods, including integrating outdoor activities and technology, to enhance student engagement. The article stresses the importance of adapting "thought and politics" education to better guide youth development, but does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee General Office training program was held in Jinan, Shandong, for local People's Congress leaders to enhance their ability to promote high-quality development of NPC work in the new era. An NPC Standing Committee General Office official stated at the opening ceremony that NPC work should thoroughly study Xi Jinping's thoughts on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses and should focus on its role in promoting Chinese-style modernization. The training program included reports on topics such as studying Xi Jinping's thought on the rule of law and improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, as well as discussions and site visits. Approximately 150 officials from 16 provincial-level regions attended the program.
Summary: The "2025 China New Media Think Tank Report," including an annual review and research report, was released in Fuzhou, Fujian province. Compiled jointly by the All-China Journalists Association (ACJA) New Media Professional Committee and the People's Daily's *News Front* magazine, the report documents new media development and media convergence in China. The report series, now in its sixth year, aims to provide practical reference and data support for mainstream media reform. The event was guided by the ACJA and People's Daily, and hosted by multiple organizations, with over 150 representatives from industry and academia in attendance.
Summary: The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation's "Master Class for Children" program visited Hong Kong and Macau from September 15-19, featuring experts in science and history. Academics like Yang Deren and Wu Weiren spoke at local schools on topics ranging from solar energy to lunar exploration. During one session, aerospace expert Lei Zhanxu presented a Chinese flag that had been to the far side of the moon with the Chang'e-4 mission, eliciting patriotic fervor. Shen Beili of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation expressed hope that the event would inspire patriotism and interest in science among Hong Kong and Macau youth.
Summary: The 2025 Yangtze River Civilization Forum, co-hosted by the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, took place in Chongqing from September 17-19, focusing on cross-civilizational exchange. Domestic experts from institutions like the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and international scholars from countries including the UK, France, and Brazil discussed topics such as the preservation of Yangtze River civilization and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The forum also featured events like the Longgupo Relic Site Academic Symposium and a World Great Rivers Song Festival. No U.S. officials or discussion of U.S.-China relations were reported.
Summary: As of August 2023, China's pumped hydro storage capacity reached 62.365 GW, achieving the "14th Five-Year Plan" target. China’s pumped hydro capacity has been the world's largest for nine consecutive years, with improvements in scale and quality. According to Li Sheng,院长 of the水电水利规划设计总院, China has made continuous progress in pumped hydro engineering construction and equipment manufacturing technology. The National Energy Administration will continue to improve policies for renewable energy consumption and regulation and promote the rational layout and orderly development and construction of pumped hydro storage power stations. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The 2025 World Manufacturing Convention will be held in Hefei from September 20-23, with the theme "Intelligent Manufacturing World, Create a Better Future." Slovakia will be the guest of honor country, and Henan Province will be the guest of honor province. The event aims for extensive international cooperation with guests from over 40 countries and regions, more than 50% foreign guests. The conference will promote project matchmaking, focusing on emerging and traditional industries. The event will also feature ten comprehensive exhibition areas and interactive displays of unmanned systems.
Letter of Congratulation
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the China Zhi Gong Party (中国致公党), I extend my warm congratulations on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央)! I extend my sincere greetings to all comrades of the Zhi Gong Party (致公党)!
As one of the earliest established democratic parties in China, the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) has always shared weal and woe and been **肝胆相照** (gān dǎn xiāng zhào - "sharing liver and gallbladder," to treat each other with utmost sincerity) with the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), actively participating in the cause of the Chinese revolution, construction, and reform, working together to forge ahead in the new era, contributing wisdom and strength to the struggle for national independence, people's liberation, and the realization of national prosperity and people's happiness, and writing a glorious history of "dedication to public service and serving the country with overseas Chinese affairs."
On the new journey, I hope that the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) will always adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold the original aspiration of cooperation, carry forward fine traditions, strengthen self-construction, earnestly perform its duties, extensively unite overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and students studying abroad, actively serve the great cause of national reunification, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Xi Jinping (习近平)
September 19, 2025
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), September 19)
Beijing (北京), September 19 (People's Daily (人民日报)) On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the China Zhi Gong Party (中国致公党), Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter, expressing warm congratulations on behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) and extending sincere greetings to all comrades of the Zhi Gong Party (致公党).
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in his congratulatory letter that as one of the earliest established democratic parties in China, the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) has always shared weal and woe and been **肝胆相照** (gān dǎn xiāng zhào - "sharing liver and gallbladder," to treat each other with utmost sincerity) with the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), actively participating in the cause of the Chinese revolution, construction, and reform, working together to forge ahead in the new era, contributing wisdom and strength to the struggle for national independence, people's liberation, and the realization of national prosperity and people's happiness, and writing a glorious history of "dedication to public service and serving the country with overseas Chinese affairs."
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that on the new journey, he hopes that the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) will always adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold the original aspiration of cooperation, carry forward fine traditions, strengthen self-construction, earnestly perform its duties, extensively unite overseas Chinese, returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and students studying abroad, actively serve the great cause of national reunification, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. (The full text of the congratulatory letter will be published separately.)
The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the China Zhi Gong Party (中国致公党) was held in Beijing (北京) on the 19th. Wang Huning (王沪宁), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局常委) and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协主席), attended and delivered a speech. He said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) specially sent a congratulatory letter to the 100th anniversary of the founding of the China Zhi Gong Party (中国致公党), fully affirmed the important contributions made by the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) over the past 100 years, and put forward clear requirements and ardent expectations for the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) to better perform its functions as a participating party on the new journey. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter fully reflects the great importance attached by the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) to the construction of participating parties of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and has important guiding significance for adhering to, developing, and improving the new type of party system in China and promoting the development of multi-party cooperation in the new era. We must conscientiously study and comprehend it and implement it.
Wang Huning (王沪宁) said that over the past 100 years since its establishment, the China Zhi Gong Party (中国致公党) has always closely linked its destiny with the destiny of the Chinese nation and written a glorious history of "dedication to public service and serving the country with overseas Chinese affairs." On the new era and new journey, he hopes that the Zhi Gong Party (致公党) will deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," strengthen the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four confidences," and achieve the "two safeguards," and broadly gather people's hearts, build consensus, gather wisdom, and gather strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to firmly adhere to the correct political direction, unswervingly adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee (中共中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core in thought, politics, and action. It is necessary to bear in mind the overall situation and perform duties responsibly, gather wisdom in participating in and deliberating on state affairs, offer sincere advice in democratic supervision, offer good strategies in political party consultation, and continuously improve the effectiveness of the new type of party system in China. It is necessary to give full play to its unique advantages, help strengthen the great unity of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, and play a greater role in serving the great cause of national reunification and creating a good international environment. It is necessary to inherit and carry forward fine traditions and build a high-quality participating party of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Li Ganjie (李干杰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Minister of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央统战部部长), read Xi Jinping's (习近平) congratulatory letter at the meeting. Jiang Zuojun (蒋作君), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协副主席) and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央主席), delivered a speech. He Wei (何维), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会副委员长) and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (农工党中央主席), and Xu Yousheng (许又声), Deputy Director of the Committee for Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs of the CPPCC National Committee (全国政协港澳台侨委员会副主任), delivered congratulatory speeches on behalf of the central committees of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), and overseas Chinese affairs units, respectively. Representatives of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, and representatives of Zhi Gong Party (致公党) members spoke at the meeting.
Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局委员) and Vice Premier of the State Council (国务院副总理), and Mu Hong (穆虹), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协副主席), attended the meeting.
Zhang Endi (张恩迪), Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央常务副主席), presided over the meeting. Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central and state organs, overseas Chinese affairs units, and relevant people's organizations, heads of the central committees of various democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), members of the leadership team and former leadership team members of the Central Committee of the Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央), members of the Central Committee of the Zhi Gong Party (致公党中央), representatives of party members, representatives of overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Xinhua) On the evening of September 19th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) spoke on the phone with US President Donald Trump (唐纳德·特朗普). They exchanged candid and in-depth views on current China-US relations and issues of common concern, and provided strategic guidance for the stable development of China-US relations in the next stage. The call was pragmatic, positive, and constructive.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and the United States were allies who fought side by side in World War II. Not long ago, China solemnly held activities to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and invited the surviving family members of the American Flying Tigers to ascend the Tiananmen (天安门) Rostrum to watch the military parade. The Chinese people will not forget the valuable support provided by the United States and other anti-fascist allied countries to China's war of resistance. We should cherish peace and create the future on the basis of cherishing the memory of the martyrs and remembering history.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that China-US relations are very important. China and the United States can completely achieve mutual success and common prosperity, benefiting both countries and the world. To achieve this vision, both sides must meet each other halfway and make efforts to achieve mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation. The recent consultations between the two teams reflect the spirit of equality, respect, and reciprocity, and can continue to properly handle outstanding issues in bilateral relations and strive to achieve win-win results. The US should avoid taking unilateral trade restrictive measures to prevent impacting the results achieved by both sides through multiple rounds of consultations. China's position on the TikTok issue is clear. The Chinese government respects the wishes of enterprises and is happy to see enterprises conduct commercial negotiations on the basis of complying with market rules and reach solutions that comply with Chinese laws and regulations and balance interests. It is hoped that the US will provide an open, fair, and non-discriminatory business environment for Chinese companies to invest in the United States.
Trump (特朗普) said that China's military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was very exciting. The US-China relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. Cooperation between the two countries can accomplish many major events that are conducive to world peace and stability. The US hopes to maintain a long-term, good, and great relationship with China. The US hopes to promote economic and trade cooperation between the two countries, will support consultations between the two teams, and properly resolve the TikTok issue. The US is willing to work with China to maintain world peace.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Xinhua) -- The State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released a white paper on September 19th titled "The Successful Practice of the Party's Governance Strategy for Xinjiang in the New Era."
The white paper, in addition to the preface and conclusion, is divided into ten parts: the ideas and experiences of the central government in governing Xinjiang (新疆) in history, the glorious history of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in governing Xinjiang (新疆), the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era creating a new situation in governing Xinjiang (新疆), a more solid foundation for social stability and lasting peace and security, the in-depth promotion of the construction of the Chinese national community, the continuous deepening of democratic and rule of law construction, the coordinated advancement of high-quality development and high-level opening up, remarkable achievements in cultural development, continuous improvement of people's well-being, and the continuous gathering of strong synergy for building Xinjiang (新疆).
The white paper emphasizes that in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has examined, planned, and deployed Xinjiang (新疆) work from the overall and strategic height of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, continuously deepened its understanding and grasp of the laws of governing Xinjiang (新疆), clarified the overall goal of social stability and lasting peace and security, established the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era, and led Xinjiang (新疆) work to uphold justice and innovate amidst complexity and advance victoriously amidst contradictions and risks, promoting historic achievements and historic changes in various undertakings in Xinjiang (新疆).
The white paper points out that the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era guides the modernization of the border governance system and governance capabilities to achieve a historic leap, and has found a correct path to coordinate development and security in border areas, solidly promote the Xinjiang (新疆) practice of Chinese-style modernization, and achieve the overall goal of social stability and lasting peace and security in Xinjiang (新疆).
The white paper emphasizes that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区). Looking forward to the future, in the magnificent practice north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (天山), and in the great journey of Chinese-style modernization, the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era will surely continue to demonstrate its great power and will surely continue to be enriched and developed. Under the guidance of the Party's governance strategy for Xinjiang (新疆) in the new era, the road to development in Xinjiang (新疆), China, will surely become wider and wider, and the future of Xinjiang (新疆), China, will surely be even more splendid and brilliant.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) September 19th (Reporters Dong Boting (董博婷) and Sun Shaolong (孙少龙)) The State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released a white paper on September 19th titled "China's Practice and Achievements in Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in the New Era."
The white paper, in addition to the preface and conclusion, is divided into five parts: comprehensively opening up the path of developing women's cause in China, taking the promotion of women's comprehensive development as a national action, women sharing the fruits of modernization, promoting women to be at the forefront of the times, and contributing China's strength to the development of the global women's cause.
The white paper emphasizes that women are the creators of human civilization and the drivers of social progress. To achieve gender equality and the comprehensive development of women, humanity has gone through an uneven and extraordinary journey. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core regards safeguarding women's legitimate rights and interests and promoting gender equality and the comprehensive development of women as important components of Chinese-style modernization, and has made a series of groundbreaking, comprehensive, and long-term major decisions and deployments for the development of women's cause.
The white paper introduces that China incorporates women's development goals and tasks into the Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, and regards the level of women's development as an important yardstick for measuring the level of economic and social development, achieving synchronized planning, deployment, promotion, and implementation of women's cause development and economic and social development, so that the fruits of modernization benefit the vast number of women more and more fairly, and make women's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, secure, and sustainable.
The white paper states that China expands channels for women's participation, improves their ability to participate, and stimulates their creativity in promoting high-quality economic development, and the role of the vast number of women as "half the sky" (半边天) (bàn biān tiān - "half the sky," women hold up half the sky, playing an equally important role as men) is fully demonstrated. China promotes women to make contributions in high-quality economic development, participate equally in whole-process people's democracy, show their elegance in cultural prosperity and development, take responsibility in grassroots social governance, and make practical contributions in ecological civilization construction.
The white paper points out that in today's world, promoting gender equality and the comprehensive development of women faces both opportunities and arduous tasks. China is willing to work with all countries in the world to join hands, accelerate action, create a better future for women's development, and compose a new chapter in the development of the global women's cause!
(The full text of the white paper can be found on pages 2, 4, and 5)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (北京) – Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) presided over a State Council executive meeting on September 19th, heard a report on the implementation of the spirit of the National Conference on Ecological and Environmental Protection and the comprehensive advancement of the construction of a Beautiful China, studied the implementation of domestic product standards and related policies in government procurement, and discussed the "Banking Supervision and Administration Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft)."
The meeting pointed out that the construction of a Beautiful China is a long-term and systematic project that requires sustained effort. It is necessary to thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, firmly establish and practice the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets," adhere to ecological priority, conservation and intensive use, and green and low-carbon development, and continuously promote the construction of a Beautiful China to a new level. It is necessary to adhere to the coordinated promotion of high-quality development and high-level protection, enhance the momentum of green development with high-level protection, and reduce the cost of resources and the environment with high-quality development. It is necessary to adhere to goal orientation and problem orientation, focus on the expectations of the people, increase work efforts, and persistently consolidate and expand the achievements in pollution prevention and control, ecological protection and restoration. It is necessary to combine daily management with system construction, continue to deepen the reform of the ecological civilization system, refine and improve supporting systems, and provide strong guarantees for the comprehensive advancement of the construction of a Beautiful China.
The meeting pointed out that the formulation and promulgation of domestic product standards and related policies in government procurement is an important measure to improve the government procurement system and a pragmatic action to implement national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises in the field of government procurement. It is necessary to proceed from reality, reasonably classify and set domestic product standards, and clarify the specific requirements for key components and key processes of specific products. It is necessary to fully listen to opinions from all parties, steadily promote the implementation of standards, reasonably set a transition period, and support enterprises to make industrial layouts and investment plans in advance. All types of business entities should be treated equally and fairly to effectively ensure fair competition.
The meeting discussed and, in principle, approved the "Banking Supervision and Administration Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft)" (中华人民共和国银行业监督管理法（修订草案）), and decided to submit the draft to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for deliberation. The meeting pointed out that the stability of banking financial institutions is related to the stability of China's financial system and the safety of the people's property. It is necessary to further improve the management system, severely crack down on illegal financial activities and violations of laws and regulations in accordance with the law, promote financial institutions and employees to consciously respect, learn, understand, abide by, and use the law, effectively safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers, effectively prevent and resolve financial risks, and promote the standardized and healthy development of the banking industry.
The meeting also studied other matters.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) September 19th (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)) The reporter learned on the 19th from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局): In August, China's civil aviation transportation scale reached a new historical high, with total transportation turnover exceeding 15 billion ton-kilometers for the first time, and the overall operating trend continued to improve. The entire industry completed a total transportation turnover of 15.18 billion ton-kilometers, a passenger traffic volume of 75.364 million passengers, and a cargo and mail traffic volume of 865,000 tons, representing year-on-year increases of 8.0%, 3.3%, and 13.3% respectively.
In terms of passenger transport, domestic routes completed a passenger traffic volume of 67.899 million passengers in August, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%; international routes completed a passenger traffic volume of 7.465 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 15.3%.
In terms of cargo transport, domestic routes completed a cargo and mail traffic volume of 486,000 tons in August, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%; international routes completed a cargo and mail traffic volume of 379,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 19.9%.
Data shows that from January to August, the national civil aviation industry completed a total transportation turnover of 108.33 billion ton-kilometers, a year-on-year increase of 10.5%; completed a passenger traffic volume of 520 million passengers, a year-on-year increase of 5.3%; and completed a cargo and mail traffic volume of 6.516 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%.
Return to TopBeijing, September 19 (Reporter Feng Hua (冯华)) The reporter learned from a press conference held by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) on the 19th that China has actively promoted work on addressing climate change and achieving carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, and has promoted the construction of the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system. The total installed capacity of wind power and solar power has completed the 2030 national independent contribution target ahead of schedule. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's carbon dioxide emission intensity has continued to decline.
The construction of the national carbon market is being actively promoted. China has built the world's largest carbon emission trading market covering greenhouse gas emissions. This year, the steel, cement, and aluminum smelting industries have been newly included, realizing effective control of more than 60% of the country's carbon dioxide emissions. As of September 18, the cumulative transaction volume of allowances in the national carbon emission trading market reached 714 million tons, and the cumulative transaction amount reached 48.961 billion yuan. At the same time, the standardization, accuracy, and timeliness of carbon emission data statistics and accounting have been greatly improved. (Related reports can be found on the second page)
Return to TopAccording to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's intelligent manufacturing engineering has been steadily advancing. More than 35,000 basic-level, over 7,000 advanced-level, and 230 excellent-level intelligent factories have been built, promoting integrated innovation in processes, equipment, and software.
Data shows that China's manufacturing robot density has reached 470 units per 10,000 people, far exceeding the global average. In fields such as photovoltaics, power batteries, and new energy vehicles, intelligent manufacturing equipment and system solutions have achieved collective breakthroughs. The comprehensive innovation and upgrading of manufacturing, with flexible adjustment and autonomous optimization of production lines; accurate prediction and remote intervention of equipment failures; and on-demand generation and personalized definition of product functions, marks China's manufacturing industry entering a new stage of intelligentization with full-factor collaboration.
Return to TopIn the past, people traveling between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (天山) had to navigate winding mountain roads, taking at least 3 hours. With the completion of the world's longest highway tunnel—the Xinjiang Tianshan Victory Tunnel (新疆天山胜利隧道)—crossing the Tianshan Mountains (天山) now only takes about 20 minutes. This is an aesthetically pleasing tunnel, with colorful paintings adorning the tunnel walls, showcasing the beauty of Xinjiang (新疆), and providing a delightful experience for drivers and passengers. The picture shows construction workers painting the scenic belt in the Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道) on September 19.
Photo by Chai Gengli (柴更利) (Image China (影像中国)).
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On the eve of the Global Women's Summit, the white paper "China's Practices and Achievements in Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in the New Era" was released, vividly showcasing the outstanding demeanor and sense of responsibility of Chinese women in the new era, and inspiring more people to win a brilliant life through participation and contribution.
They are builders of a great cause. In Changjiang Li Autonomous County (昌江黎族自治县), Hainan (海南), the "Women's Tree Planting Team" has successively planted more than 30,000 mu of coastal defense forests. At the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, female scientific and technological workers account for 45.8%. Striving in the new era, the "power of women" has made outstanding contributions.
They are advocates of civilized customs. "Women's Public Opinion Officers" and others are busy in the streets and alleys, and women volunteers and women's volunteer service teams carried out nearly one million volunteer service activities in 2024... In social governance and family life, the "beauty of women" plays a unique role.
They are strivers who dare to pursue their dreams. Winning gold and silver medals in sports competitions, building dreams in the galaxy during space travel... One story of "women's aspirations" powerfully confirms that "every woman has the opportunity to have a brilliant life and realize her dreams."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "development cannot be separated from women." On the new journey, combining empowering women with stimulating women's innovation and creativity will surely inject the power of women into Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (北京) - A Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 19th that Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) will travel to New York (纽约) from September 22nd to 26th to attend the General Debate of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. During this time, Premier Li Qiang (李强) will also attend activities such as the high-level meeting of the Global Development Initiative hosted by China, and hold meetings with the United Nations Secretary-General and leaders of relevant countries.
People's Daily, Beijing (北京), September 19th (Reported by Li Xinyi (李欣怡)) - Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) will travel to New York (纽约) from September 22nd to 26th to attend the General Debate of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian (林剑) introduced China's expectations for this visit when answering questions at a regular press conference on the 19th.
Lin Jian (林剑) said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War and the founding of the United Nations. At present, profound changes unseen in a century are accelerating, the global governance deficit is widening, and the international community generally expects to maintain the authority of the United Nations and strengthen the role of the United Nations. The General Debate of the UN General Assembly provides an important opportunity for the international community to build political consensus, strengthen unity and cooperation, and address common challenges.
"China firmly supports the United Nations in playing a central role in international affairs. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the Global Governance Initiative, further proposing a Chinese solution for strengthening and improving global governance," Lin Jian (林剑) said. Premier Li Qiang (李强) will comprehensively introduce China's views on the current international situation, major global issues, and the work of the United Nations in multilateral and bilateral activities, and deeply elaborate on China's domestic and foreign policies, as well as major concepts and propositions such as the Global Governance Initiative.
Lin Jian (林剑) stated that China is willing to take this visit as an opportunity to work with all parties to relive the original aspiration of the United Nations, reaffirm its commitment to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, promote the revitalization of the authority and vitality of the United Nations in the new era, and play a greater role in maintaining world peace, promoting development, and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
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On September 19th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) released a white paper titled "The Practice and Achievements of Promoting the Comprehensive Development of Women in China in the New Era." The white paper systematically introduces the concept of women's development in China, focusing on the great achievements China has made in promoting gender equality and women's development since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), especially in the past five years, and introduces China's positive contributions to promoting the global women's cause.
"The level of women's development in China has achieved an all-round leap, and the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics has shown vigorous vitality and unique advantages." Huang Xiaowei (黄晓薇), Deputy Director of the State Council Working Committee on Children and Women (国务院妇女儿童工作委员会), Vice-President and First Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), used four "unprecedented" to summarize the historic achievements of women's cause in China.
The Party and the state's attention and support for the women's cause are unprecedented. The 18th, 19th and 20th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大、十九大、二十大) have emphasized "adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children." China has promulgated the first Civil Code (民法典) including marriage and family chapters, the Anti-Domestic Violence Law (反家庭暴力法), and revised the Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women (妇女权益保障法). Gender equality assessment mechanisms for laws and policies have been established at the national level and in various provinces and cities.
The sense of gain, happiness, and security of the vast number of women is unprecedented. 690 million women have simultaneously entered a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The health level of women has been greatly improved, with an average life expectancy of 80.9 years, the systematic management rate of pregnant women has increased to 94.9%, and the maternal mortality rate has decreased by 41.6% compared with 2012. Women enjoy balanced and high-quality education, and the gender gap in basic education has been basically eliminated.
The role of "**半边天**" (bàn biān tiān - "half the sky," women hold up half the sky) in various fields is unprecedented. Women account for 43% of employed people, 45.8% of scientific and technological workers, and 1/3 of practitioners in new business forms such as digital trade, e-commerce, and live broadcasting; the proportion of women in the 14th National People's Congress (第十四届全国人大代表), the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), and delegates to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大代表) has reached a record high; women account for 54.3% and 26.1% of members of neighborhood committees and village committees, respectively, an increase of 5.5 and 4 percentage points compared with 2012; women account for 45.2% of the national cultural elites program; 431,000 women's councils, more than 7 million executive committee members of women's federations, and more than 24 million registered women volunteers are active in urban and rural communities.
China's deep participation in the global governance of women's cause is unprecedented. China and the United Nations have jointly established the Girls' and Women's Education Award and held the Global Women's Summit; maintained friendly exchanges with more than 140 countries, more than 420 women's organizations, institutions, and United Nations agencies, and implemented empowerment projects worth more than 40 million US dollars in more than 20 countries.
Women's and children's health is a prerequisite for sustainable development. Ma Liejian (马列坚), Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), introduced that China has built a maternal and child health service system with maternal and child health institutions as the core, primary health care institutions as the foundation, and large and medium-sized hospitals and scientific research institutions as the support.
"At present, there are 3,081 maternal and child health institutions, 3,491 critical pregnant women rescue centers, and 3,221 critical newborn rescue centers in the country, and more than 2,600 secondary and above traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have set up gynecology departments," said Ma Liejian (马列坚).
Chinese female astronauts not only realized the dream of women's spacewalk, but also inspired children's scientific exploration dreams through space lectures.
"Once there was a girl named Wang Nan (王楠) who listened to my Shenzhou-10 ('神十') 'space lecture' in high school. After more than 10 years, she realized her scientific dream, and now she has become an astronaut as she wished and fought side by side with me." Wang Yaping (王亚平), part-time Vice-President of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) and astronaut of the Astronaut Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军航天员大队), said that the power of women is irreplaceable on the road of scientific and technological innovation.
In the wave of the digital economy, "**半边天**" (bàn biān tiān - "half the sky," women hold up half the sky) are showing their skills. Feng Ling (冯玲), Vice-President and Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), introduced that through a combination of "policy guidance, training empowerment, and support," women have improved their digital skills and broadened their career development paths.
In terms of policy guidance, the "Outline for the Development of Chinese Women (2021-2030)" ("中国妇女发展纲要（2021—2030年）") requires improving women's ability to use information technology to participate in the high-quality economic and social development of the new era; the "Outline for Improving National Digital Literacy and Skills Action" ("提升全民数字素养与技能行动纲要") requires enhancing women's digital awareness and ability to safely access the Internet, use the Internet scientifically, and start businesses online.
In terms of training empowerment, the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联) has jointly organized e-commerce training and live broadcast courses with the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) since 2015. More and more "women e-commerce experts" have sold good products from their hometowns to the whole country and even the world.
In terms of entrepreneurial support, inclusive finance helps entrepreneurial women overcome funding shortages, the "Women's E-commerce" brand provides IP support for entrepreneurial women, and the vast number of women have gone from "knowing how to use mobile phones" to "mastering digital technology."
"Women not only realize their self-worth in the digital economy, but also become an important force in promoting the vigorous development of the digital economy," said Feng Ling (冯玲).
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Table of Contents
Preface
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
(IV) Fully Leveraging Women's Subjective Role
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's All-Round Development as a National Action
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Cause
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
(III) Strengthening the Legal Guarantee of Women's Rights and Interests
(IV) Creating an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
III. Women Sharing the Fruits of Modernization
(I) Comprehensive Elimination of Absolute Poverty
(II) Significant Improvement in Health Status
(III) Remarkable Improvement in Education Level
(IV) Continuous Consolidation of Social Security
(V) A Better Family Life
IV. Promoting Women to Be at the Forefront of the Times
(I) Making Contributions in High-Quality Economic Development
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
(III) Showing Style in Cultural Prosperity and Development
(IV) Taking on Responsibilities in Grassroots Social Governance
(V) Making Practical Contributions to Ecological Civilization Construction
V. Contributing China's Strength to the Development of Global Women's Cause
(I) Participating in Global Governance in the Field of Women
(II) Deepening Cooperation and Exchanges in Women's Development
(III) Actively Responding to Global Challenges
Concluding Remarks
Preface
Women are the pioneers of human civilization and the promoters of social progress. To achieve gender equality and the all-round development of women, humanity has gone through an uneven and extraordinary journey.
Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always adhered to writing the realization of women's liberation and development, and the realization of gender equality on its banner of struggle. It has always regarded the vast number of women as an important force for promoting the development of the Party and the people's cause, and has always placed women's work in an important position, leading the vast number of women to gain liberation, seek progress, and seek development, and has opened up a path of women's development with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has taken safeguarding women's legitimate rights and interests and promoting gender equality and women's all-round development as an important part of Chinese-style modernization, and has made a series of pioneering, overall, and long-term major decisions and deployments for the development of women's cause. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted this, presided over the first Central Party Group Work Conference in the history of the Party, attended the National Women's Congress of China three times in a row, and held collective talks with the new leadership of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), delivering a series of important expositions on women, children, and the work of the Women's Federation, and emphasizing the construction of family education and family style, pointing the direction, setting the position, and clarifying the principles for the development of women's cause in the new era. Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality has been written into the Communist Party of China's (中国共产党) governing program, promoting women's all-round development has been included in the national development plan, the legal system for safeguarding women's rights and interests has been continuously improved, and the working pattern for the development of women's cause has been further improved. The vast number of women strive to be builders of great undertakings, advocates of civilized customs, and strivers who dare to pursue their dreams, winning a brilliant life in participation and contribution. The development of women's cause in China in the new era has achieved historic achievements, and the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider.
The fate of women around the world is intertwined, and the development of women's cause in China is closely linked to the development of women's cause around the world. In 1995, China successfully hosted the Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations, and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the conference became a milestone in the global cause of gender equality. At important occasions such as the 2015 Global Women's Summit and the 2020 UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women, President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded China's propositions on promoting gender equality and women's all-round development, and proposed to convene the Global Women's Summit again in 2025. On the occasion of the convening of this summit, in order to systematically introduce the concepts, principles, and innovative practices of China in promoting gender equality and women's all-round development in the new era, vividly demonstrate the outstanding demeanor and responsibility of Chinese women, and work with countries around the world to promote the development of the global women's cause, this white paper is specially released.
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
In the process of Chinese-style modernization, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), based on the basic national conditions and in line with the trend of history, has united and led the vast number of women to continue to struggle, and has embarked on a correct path to realize women's equal exercise of democratic rights in accordance with the law, equal participation in economic and social development, and equal enjoyment of the fruits of reform and development.
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
The leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the fundamental guarantee for the vigorous development of women's cause in China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and incorporated the promotion of gender equality and women's all-round development into the overall development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. "Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" has been continuously written into the reports of the 18th, 19th, and 20th National Congresses of the Party; the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party clearly proposed "adhering to and improving the institutional mechanisms for promoting gender equality and women's all-round development" and "emphasizing the important role of family education and family style in grassroots social governance"; the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party wrote "adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "strengthening family, family education, and family style construction" into the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035"; the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party wrote "emphasizing family education and family style construction, and safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children" into the Party's third historical resolution; the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party incorporated "improving the system for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "improving the mechanism for leveraging the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance" into the overall deployment of further comprehensively deepening reform, and women's cause is striding forward under the overall leadership of the Party.
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
Taking gender equality as a basic national policy is an innovative move of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and an important strategic decision for China to promote gender equality and women's all-round development. China strengthens top-level design and systematic planning, fully considers the realistic differences between men and women and the special interests of women when issuing laws, formulating policies, preparing plans, and deploying work, promotes the equality of rights, opportunities, and results between men and women, and safeguards women's rights and interests in accordance with the law. Vigorously cultivate a social ethos of respecting and caring for women, eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, break down backward ideas and outdated customs that hinder women's development, and build a more inclusive and dynamic social environment, so that the concept of gender equality truly becomes a common code of conduct and value standard for the entire society.
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
Development cannot be separated from women, and development should benefit all the people, including women. China closely integrates the course of national development and progress with the course of promoting gender equality and development, incorporates women's cause into the "five-in-one" overall layout of socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction with Chinese characteristics, incorporates women's development goals and tasks into the five-year plans for national economic and social development, and takes the level of women's development as an important yardstick for measuring the level of economic and social development, so as to achieve synchronized planning, synchronized deployment, synchronized promotion, and synchronized implementation of women's cause development and economic and social development, so that the fruits of modernization construction can benefit the vast number of women more and more fairly, and make women's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.
(IV) Fully Leveraging Women's Subjective Role
Women are not only a great force in promoting the progress of human civilization, but also the masters and creators of their own destiny. China adheres to the people-centered development thought, respects women's subjective status, and strengthens institutional guarantees, policy support, and public service supply. Carry out a series of actions to build meritorious service for women, promote the all-round improvement of women's quality and ability, unblock women's participation channels, maximize the mobilization of the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the vast number of women, and maximize the realization, maintenance, and development of the vital interests of the vast number of women. Encourage the vast number of women to integrate their personal ideals and pursuits into the cause of the Party and the country, give full play to their own advantages in various fields such as implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, realizing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and play a unique role in social life and family life, and contribute women's strength to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
Human beings share a common home, and the development of women around the world is closely linked. China adheres to the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, actively promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, advocates people-centeredness, focuses on action orientation, and issues Chinese initiatives, provides Chinese solutions, and promises Chinese actions for the development of women's cause around the world. Support the United Nations in placing women's work in a priority position, deepen pragmatic cooperation with countries around the world in the field of women, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning, build consensus on the pursuit of gender equality, jointly create an international environment conducive to women's development, and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice, so as to make Chinese contributions to promoting the world towards a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's All-Round Development as a National Action
China takes the development of women's cause as an important part of national governance, and continues to strengthen the support and guarantee of the system and mechanism, so as to create an environment and create conditions for women's all-round development.
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Cause
Establish a women's work mechanism led by the Party committee, with the government taking the main responsibility, the Women and Children's Work Committee coordinating, the Women's Federation organization linking, multi-department cooperation, and the whole society participating, forming a work pattern of joint management, providing a solid guarantee for implementing gender equality in all fields of economic and social development and all aspects of social life.
The People's Congress strengthens legislation and supervision. The National People's Congress has established a Social Construction Committee to undertake legislative, supervisory, and representative proposal handling work related to the protection of women's rights and interests. Pay attention to incorporating legal projects that promote women's development and protect women's rights and interests into the legislative plans and plans of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and attach importance to soliciting and adopting the opinions of the Women's Federation organizations and women in legislative and supervisory work. Listen to and deliberate on the State Council's report on the work of combating domestic violence, and take the protection of the legitimate rights and special rights and interests of female employees as an important content in the law enforcement inspection of the Trade Union Law, and urge relevant departments to fulfill their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding women's rights and interests. The People's Congresses of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have established Social Construction Committees, formulated local laws and regulations that are compatible with the superior laws, and strengthened the legal guarantee of women's rights and interests.
The People's Government earnestly fulfills its main responsibility. Formulate and organize the implementation of the Outline for the Development of Women, convene women and children's work conferences, give play to the role of the Women and Children's Work Committee as a coordinating agency, and promote the Party's organs, government departments, judicial organs, people's organizations, etc. to do a good job in women's work with their respective responsibilities. Improve the statistical monitoring mechanism of the Outline for the Development of Women, formulate the "Gender Statistical Monitoring System", covering more than 2,400 indicators, set up gender indicators in national population censuses, time use surveys, and other statistical surveys, and carry out the fourth phase of the China Women's Social Status Survey to monitor and evaluate the development status of women in multiple dimensions.
The People's Political Consultative Conference strengthens consultation and suggestions. The political consultative conferences at all levels fulfill the functions of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs, and consult on women's issues through special consultation, sectoral consultation, counterpart consultation, proposal handling consultation, and other platforms. The Women's Federation sector, as one of the 34 sectors of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), conducts sectoral research and consultation on key and difficult issues in women's development such as women's fertility and health rights protection. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) conducts consultation and suggestions on topics such as promoting women's fair employment and career development, family education and family style construction, and inclusive childcare service system, so as to help women's development.
The Women's Federation organization gives full play to its role as a bridge and link. The All-China Women's Federation (中华全国妇女联合会) is a mass organization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in which women of all ethnic groups and all walks of life unite to strive for further liberation and development. It has established an organizational system that runs through the six levels of the state, province, city, county, township, and village, and covers organs and institutions, new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. The Women's Federation organizations at all levels actively play the role of a bridge and link between the Party and the government and the women, act as a capable assistant to the Party, closely focus on the country's major development strategies, fulfill the functions of leading, serving, and connecting, and widely carry out the "Five Actions" such as the Action of Women's Hearts to the Party, the Action of Women's Meritorious Service, the Action of Women's Family Service, the Action of Women's Rights Protection and Warm Hearts, and the Action of Strengthening the Foundation and Breaking Difficulties of the Women's Federation Organizations and Improving the Ability and Quality of Women's Federation Cadres, and concentrate efforts on grasping the Caring Service of Loving Mothers, the Quality Improvement and Capacity Expansion of Women's Housekeeping, Women's Vocational Skills Training, the Development of Inclusive Childcare Service System, the Deepening of the "Spring Bud Project - Dream Future" Action, and the Telling of the Story of Chinese Women's Development, so as to provide tangible and accessible services for women, children, and families.
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
The national development plan clarifies the strategic tasks of women's development. The Five-Year Plan is a blueprint and action program for China's economic and social development during the planning period. When China scientifically prepares the Five-Year Plan and deploys the strategic goals of realizing modernization construction, it incorporates the goals of women's development into it. The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for the first time made a special deployment to promote women's all-round development, and put forward clear requirements on developing women's human resources, strengthening women's labor protection, and severely cracking down on illegal and criminal acts of violence against women. The 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) further strengthened the protection of women's rights and interests, and for the first time set up a special chapter to deploy tasks such as guaranteeing women's equal access to the rights and opportunities to study, employment, and participation in social affairs, and eliminating discrimination and prejudice against women, and put forward the goals of poverty alleviation and poverty reduction for women. The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) continues to plan the goals of women's rights and interests in health, education, labor, political participation, social security, etc., and for the first time added a special section on "strengthening family construction", focusing on optimizing policies and services to support family development.
Special plans in related fields respond to the realistic needs of women's development. The "Healthy China 2030" Planning Outline, the Outline for Building a Strong Education Country, as well as the "14th Five-Year Plan" for Employment Promotion and the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Civil Affairs and other special plans in the field of people's livelihood, specifically put forward policy measures on improving maternal and child health, guaranteeing women's equal right to education, supporting women's employment and entrepreneurship and career development, and improving the care service system for rural left-behind women. The National Medium and Long-Term Talent Development Plan Outline makes arrangements for promoting a more reasonable gender structure of talents and strengthening the training and selection of female talents, and the National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline makes deployments for implementing the quality improvement plan for rural women. All four phases of the National Human Rights Action Plan have set up a special section on "Women's Rights", with special measures to protect women's personal, property, education, employment, health and other rights and interests.
The Women's Development Program comprehensively plans the phased goals of women's development. Since 1995, four cycles of women's development programs have been successively formulated and implemented, comprehensively deploying the main goals and strategic measures for women's development in different stages. The 2021-2030 China Women's Development Program systematically sets up 75 main goals and 93 strategic measures in eight fields: women's health, education, economy, participation in decision-making and management, social security, family construction, environment, and law. The implementation is divided among 41 party and government departments and institutions. All 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), as well as more than 300 prefectures (cities) and more than 2,000 counties (districts) across the country, have formulated women's development plans for their respective regions in light of their actual conditions. The goals and tasks of the Women's Development Program are linked to the national development plan and coordinated with special plans in different fields, forming a planning system that promotes women's development from the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels.
(III) Strengthening the Rule of Law Guarantee for Women's Rights
Continuously improving the legal system. In the process of deeply promoting the comprehensive rule of law, the rule of law guarantee for women's rights is promoted in an integrated manner, building a legal system based on the Constitution and with the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests as the main body, including more than 100 laws and regulations. In compiling the Civil Code, the "Personality Rights Section" further clarifies the definition of sexual harassment and the responsibilities of employers, and the "Marriage and Family Section" improves the systems for determining and clearing joint debts of husband and wife, and economic compensation for housework in divorce. The Criminal Law was amended to abolish the crime of patronizing child prostitutes, treating it as rape, increasing the statutory minimum sentence for the crime of molesting children, increasing the punishment for the crime of buying trafficked women, and adding the crime of sexual assault by persons with caregiving responsibilities. The Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests was revised to make more comprehensive and systematic provisions on the system and mechanism for protecting women's rights and interests. The Anti-Domestic Violence Law was formulated, clarifying the mandatory reporting, admonishment, personal safety protection order, and temporary shelter systems. The Rural Land Contract Law was amended to improve the legal protection of rural women's land rights, allowing women to "have their names on the certificate and rights under their names." The Law on Rural Collective Economic Organizations was formulated to institutionally ensure that women do not lose their membership and rights in rural collective economic organizations due to changes in marital status. The Law on Legal Aid, the Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Law, and the Population and Family Planning Law all have special clauses to protect women's rights and interests. A gender equality assessment mechanism for laws and regulations has been established at the national level and in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) to assess laws and regulations closely related to women's rights and interests, and to promote the implementation of the basic national policy of equality between men and women from the source of laws and policies. (See Special Column 1)
Strengthening law enforcement and judicial protection. Resolutely crack down on illegal and criminal acts that infringe upon the personal rights of women and girls in accordance with the law. Since 2013, public security organs have continuously carried out special actions to combat the crime of trafficking in women and children. In 2024, the number of cases of trafficking in women and children nationwide decreased by 95% compared with 2013. A multi-departmental cooperation and consultation mechanism for combating domestic violence has been established, and implementation opinions on the domestic violence admonishment system and personal safety protection order system have been issued, and judicial interpretations have been issued to clarify specific measures for preventing and intervening in domestic violence and various forms of evidence for identifying domestic violence. Detailed institutional measures for preventing and handling sexual harassment in the workplace have been refined, and an independent cause of action for "disputes over liability for damages caused by sexual harassment" has been added. Mechanisms such as mandatory reporting of cases involving infringement of minors, supervision of guardianship, prohibition of employment, and "one-stop" handling and assistance have been established to strengthen the protection of the personal rights and interests of girls. Procuratorial organs at all levels have filed 3,810 public interest litigation cases involving women's rights and interests. Since 2012, legal aid institutions nationwide have organized the handling of more than 4.2 million legal aid cases for women, providing free legal consultation to more than 20 million women.
Carrying out legal publicity and education. Successively formulating and implementing the national "Seventh Five-Year Plan" and "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, taking laws and regulations on protecting women's legitimate rights and interests as important content. Strengthening legal publicity and interpretation, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) specially organized press conferences to interpret the principles and highlights of the formulation and revision of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. Carrying out legal publicity activities through multiple channels and in various forms, since 2012, the "China Legal Popularization" WeChat official account has published legal publicity articles related to the protection of women's rights and interests, with a readership of 91.36 million, and the annual legal knowledge quiz has involved tens of millions of participants; the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) has carried out the "Caring for Female Employees, the Law is by Your Side" legal publicity campaign for 11 consecutive years; since 2016, women's federations at all levels across the country have organized more than 3.76 million legal publicity and legal service activities, involving more than 400 million women. In 2024, national courts and procuratorates, together with women's federations, held more than 4,200 special open day activities to protect the rights and interests of women and children, and released more than 3,800 typical cases; the "She Power Legal Popularization Rural Tour" activity covered 86% of rural areas.
(IV) Creating an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
Vigorously publicizing the basic national policy of equality between men and women. Carrying out all-round, multi-channel, and segmented publicity and education, promoting the basic national policy of equality between men and women into government agencies, schools, enterprises, urban and rural communities, and families. For party and government leading cadres, organize the compilation of the reader "Implementation and Implementation of the Basic National Policy of Equality between Men and Women," and incorporate relevant content into the party school curriculum system and teaching plan. For student groups, actively promote gender equality education in primary and secondary schools, incorporate gender equality content into textbook planning, textbook management methods, and related curriculum textbook guidelines, pay attention to the balanced gender ratio of characters in textbook illustrations, and pay attention to selecting excellent female writers' works in selected texts and cases to eliminate gender stereotypes. For the general public, incorporate the basic national policy of equality between men and women into the construction of spiritual civilization in urban and rural communities, into village rules and regulations and residents' conventions, and into family education and family style construction. Party members, cadres, experts, scholars, and women's workers jointly carry out publicity, and through popular publicity and education activities, let citizens understand the national policy and practice the national policy. (See Special Column 2)
Strengthening equality awareness in the media field. Relevant laws such as the Advertising Law and the China Women's Development Program stipulate gender equality assessment and supervision in the media field, and strictly prohibit the appearance of phenomena that demean, deny, or infringe upon women's personality in media reports or advertisements. Pay attention to gender equality review of the content of film and television literary works, and incorporate relevant requirements into links such as script argumentation, film review, production, and distribution. News media publish prohibited and cautious words in news information reports to eliminate uncivilized language that discriminates against gender. Implement the media social responsibility report system, and take "protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, and paying attention to protecting their physical and mental health" as the code of professional ethics for media personnel. Strengthen the publicity of advanced female models, and vigorously publicize the patriotic feelings of women in the new era who love the motherland and dedicate themselves to the people, the spirit of self-improvement and hard work, and the noble sentiments of being positive, enterprising, and advocating virtue and kindness through special reports, publicity releases, and organizing reports on advanced deeds, and the concept of equality between men and women is vigorously advocated throughout the society.
Efforts are being made to create a clear and bright cyberspace. Judicial interpretations have been issued, guiding cases have been released, and special actions have been carried out to severely crack down on crimes such as fraud, trafficking, and rape against women and children committed through the Internet, and severely punish illegal acts that infringe upon personal information, spread rumors, and make malicious comments that infringe upon women's personality rights. Strengthen platform responsibility, centrally dispose of illegal and bad information, and remove articles and short videos that promote the concept of son preference and deliberately render family conflicts. Strengthen the supply of high-quality online content, carry out special theme publicity, and launch a number of new media products that display the style of women in the new era and reflect family and country feelings, such as the theme song "Flowers Bloom in China" (花开中国) for women in the new era, the image film "Together" (在一起) of the Women's Federation organization, and the family image publicity film "I Love My Home" (我爱我家), which are widely disseminated among women and hundreds of millions of families, and the ideological and political guidance work for women presents a new atmosphere. Improve the digital literacy of the whole people, cultivate good Chinese netizens among women, tell the stories of China and Chinese women well, sing the main theme, and gather positive energy online.
Third, Women Share the Fruits of Modernization Construction
Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. China has continued to work hard on ensuring that children are cared for, have access to education, have jobs, have medical care, have elderly care, have housing, and have assistance when they are weak, and has continuously realized the aspirations of the vast number of women for a better life.
(I) Absolute Poverty is Completely Eliminated
China has organized and implemented the largest and most powerful poverty alleviation campaign in human history, benefiting the largest population. At the end of 2020, absolute poverty was completely eliminated, achieving the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda 10 years ahead of schedule. In the magnificent course of poverty reduction, China has fulfilled its solemn commitment that "no one should be left behind" on the road to poverty alleviation, and has taken women as the key poverty alleviation target, and the road for women to become rich is getting wider and wider.
Targeted poverty alleviation effectively guarantees basic living. Implementing the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation, establishing files and cards for the poor population, finding out the distribution of the poor population, the causes of poverty, the types of poverty, and the needs for poverty alleviation, and achieving "six precisions" in supporting objects, project arrangements, fund use, measures to households, sending people to villages, and poverty alleviation results, so that women, who account for about half of the poor population, have obtained precise resource allocation. Implementing the health poverty alleviation project, carrying out special health promotion actions, and ensuring that rural poor women enjoy basic medical and health services. Implementing the education poverty alleviation campaign, steadily improving the quality of compulsory education in poor areas, and ensuring that school-age girls from poor families do not drop out of school due to poverty. Strengthening social security bottom-lining, incorporating eligible women from the poor population with established files and cards into the minimum living security and special hardship assistance. Implementing the renovation of dilapidated rural houses, providing subsidies for the renovation of dilapidated houses in deeply impoverished areas; implementing relocation for poverty alleviation, solving the problem of poverty alleviation and development for more than 9.6 million poor people living in areas where "one side of the land cannot support one side of the people." Poor women have steadily achieved the "two no worries and three guarantees" of not worrying about food and clothing and having guarantees for compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety. After winning the battle against poverty in an all-round way, a 5-year transition period was set up to "help and support" poverty-stricken areas and people who have been lifted out of poverty. On the basis of the overall stability of assistance policies, a sound dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing the return to poverty was established to continuously support the development of production, expansion of employment, and increase of income for women who have been lifted out of poverty and rural low-income women.
Developing production helps women's employment and income increase. Adhering to the policy of development-oriented poverty alleviation, empowering poor women to develop. Strengthening industrial support, promoting the gradient transfer of labor-intensive industries such as food processing and garment manufacturing, and industrial assistance policies cover 98.9% of poor households. Through labor cooperation between the east and west, the establishment of poverty alleviation workshops, and the development of rural public welfare posts, job opportunities are provided for poor women with labor ability and willingness; encouraging and supporting the development of new formats and new industries such as e-commerce poverty alleviation, photovoltaic poverty alleviation, and tourism poverty alleviation to help poor women achieve employment at their doorsteps; developing the handicraft weaving industry in ethnic areas, allowing "Miao embroidery" (苗绣) and "Yi embroidery" (彝绣) and other order-based handicraft weaving to be transformed from "fingertip skills" to "fingertip economy." Strengthening financial and financial support, during the poverty alleviation period, special policies were introduced to provide interest-subsidized loans without mortgage or guarantee, tax and fee reductions, and other support. A total of more than 450 billion yuan of small-amount guaranteed loans and small-amount poverty alleviation loans were issued to women, and 8.7 million women achieved entrepreneurial income increase; from 2021 to 2024, 1.928 million women continued to receive 76.83 billion yuan of small-amount credit for poverty alleviation. Strengthening capacity training, carrying out multi-channel, multi-level, and multi-form vocational skills training, entrepreneurship training, and agricultural practical technology training. As of 2020, a total of 10.21 million poor women and women cadres have received various types of skills training; from 2023 to 2024, the "Rain and Dew Program" (雨露计划) subsidized a total of 632,000 women to receive vocational education, and the endogenous driving force for women's development continued to be stimulated. (See Special Column 3)
Increasing investment to break through the bottlenecks in women's development. Increasing the intensity of infrastructure construction, fundamentally solving the problems of difficulty in travel, difficulty in using electricity, difficulty in using water, and difficulty in communication that restrict the development of women in poor areas. Achieving the goal of hardening roads, passenger vehicles, and postal routes in all qualified townships and established villages, basically achieving full coverage of stable and reliable power supply services in rural areas, and fully achieving the goal of county-to-county gigabit, township-to-township 5G, and village-to-village broadband. As of the end of 2024, the popularization rate of tap water in rural areas nationwide reached 94%. (See Special Column 4)
(II) Health Status is Significantly Improved
China puts safeguarding people's health in a strategic position of priority development, comprehensively promotes the construction of a healthy China, takes the health of women and children as the cornerstone of national health, consolidates and improves the system, optimizes the allocation of resources, and provides women with health services throughout their life cycle.
The maternal and child health service system continues to improve. Embedding the maternal and child health care service network into the medical and health care network covering 1.4 billion people, and building a maternal and child health service system with maternal and child health care institutions as the core, primary medical and health institutions as the foundation, and large and medium-sized hospitals and scientific research institutions as the support. From 2012 to 2023, the number of health technicians in maternal and child health care institutions increased from 277,000 to 537,000, with an average annual growth rate of more than 6%; the actual number of beds increased from 187,000 to 295,000, an increase of nearly 60%. At present, there are 3,081 maternal and child health care institutions, 3,491 critical maternal rescue centers, and 3,221 critical newborn rescue centers nationwide. More than 2,600 secondary and above traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have set up gynecology departments. Developing the "Internet + Maternal and Child Health" service model, 31 provincial-level "Cloud Maternal and Child" telemedicine platforms carry out training and critical maternal rescue guidance, and the equalization level of maternal and child health services has been significantly improved. (See Special Column 5)
Breakthroughs have been made in tackling key women's health issues. Strengthening resource coordination, and incorporating the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS, syphilis, and hepatitis B into major public health service projects. In 2024, the mother-to-child transmission rate of AIDS dropped to 1.2%, which has reached the target requirement for eliminating mother-to-child transmission. Deeply promoting the comprehensive prevention and treatment of cervical cancer and breast cancer, from 2009 to 2024, 342 million person-times of free cervical cancer screening and 245 million person-times of breast cancer screening were carried out; from 2012 to 2024, the central government invested 3.01 billion yuan to rescue sick women. As of June 2025, 18 provinces have provided free vaccination for school-age girls by including the vaccination of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in government livelihood projects, benefiting about 5 million girls every year. Around the entire chain of childbirth and the entire life cycle of women, a group of women's health specialty groups and outpatient groups will be built. Carrying out reproductive health promotion actions, as of the end of 2024, a total of tens of thousands of primary and secondary schools and more than 1,000 colleges and universities across the country have carried out adolescent health education services. Implementing the National Health Literacy Improvement Action, Healthy Family Construction, and "Healthy China, Mother Action" to guide women to lead family members and the whole society to improve health awareness and health management capabilities.
Women's health levels have been greatly improved. In 2020, the average life expectancy of women has increased to 80.9 years. Since 2012, the national hospital delivery rate has remained stable at more than 99%, the systematic management rate of pregnant women reached 94.9% in 2024, and the maternal mortality rate dropped from 61.9/100,000 in 1995 to 14.3/100,000 in 2024, a decrease of 76.9%, which is far lower than the world average. China's core indicators of maternal and child health (maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, under-5 mortality rate) rank among the top middle- and high-income countries in the world, achieving the relevant goals of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda ahead of schedule, and are listed by the World Health Organization as one of the 10 countries with high performance in maternal and child health. (See Figure 1 and Figure 2)
(III) Education Level is Significantly Improved
In building a strong education country and comprehensively promoting the integrated reform of the education, science and technology, and talent system and mechanism, China vigorously promotes women's equal access to education of all types at all levels, continuously improves women's scientific literacy, accelerates the promotion of women's lifelong education, and women's right to education is effectively guaranteed.
Basic gender disparities in education have been largely eliminated. With the continuous implementation of four "Preschool Education Action Plans," in 2024, there were 16.9414 million girls in kindergartens nationwide, accounting for 47.3%. Efforts have been made to promote high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, accelerate the reduction of educational disparities between regions, urban and rural areas, schools, and groups. The net enrollment rate of primary school-age girls has remained above 99.9%, and in 2024, girls accounted for 46.98% of students in the nine-year compulsory education stage. With the implementation of the Senior Secondary Education Universalization Plan (2017-2020) and the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development and Improvement of Ordinary High Schools in Counties, the proportion of women receiving high school education has continued to increase. In 2024, girls accounted for 49.3% of students in ordinary high schools. (See Special Column 6)
The gender ratio in higher education is basically balanced. The country continues to advance the construction of the world's largest higher education system, consolidate and improve the popularization level of higher education, and ensure gender equality in the enrollment of ordinary institutions of higher learning through policy regulations. In 2024, women accounted for 50.76% of students in higher education, an increase of 14.15 percentage points compared to 1995. Among them, female graduate students accounted for 50.01%, an increase of 22.43 percentage points compared to 1995. (See Figure 3)
Women enjoy higher quality vocational and lifelong education. The country is accelerating the establishment of a modern vocational education system, and providing tuition waivers, scholarships (grants), and student loans to eligible students from families with financial difficulties in accordance with regulations. The level of vocational education received by women has continued to improve. In 2024, girls accounted for 47.9% of students in higher vocational education (undergraduate and associate degree programs), and 45.2% of students in secondary vocational education. The lifelong learning system for women is more open and flexible. The "National Lifelong Education Smart Education Platform" has been established to provide more convenient and accessible channels to meet the diverse learning needs of women. The number of women participating in adult education has increased year by year. In 2024, there were 5.133 million female students in adult undergraduate and associate degree programs, accounting for 54%, an increase of 1.963 million compared to 2012. In 2020, the average years of education for women aged 15 and above nationwide reached 9.59 years.
Women's scientific literacy is gradually improving. The "National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline (2021-2035)" was promulgated, incorporating the improvement of women's scientific literacy into it. The "Guidelines for Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" was issued to optimize primary and secondary school curriculum materials, experimental teaching, teacher training, and practical activities, and strengthen the connection and transformation of science education resources. Public welfare projects such as "Science Has Her - Girls Love Science," "Technology Empowers Girls," "Spring Bud Technology Girls," "Exploring the Future of Women in Science and Technology Training Program," and "Women Scientists Growth Program" have been implemented to stimulate and cultivate female students' interest in science. The Women Workers' Quality Improvement Project has been implemented to help female workers improve their digital skills. The gender gap in scientific literacy has continued to narrow, the scale of the female science and technology talent team has gradually expanded, the structure has been continuously optimized, and the ability has been significantly improved, making outstanding contributions in various aspects such as basic theory, applied technology, and engineering practice. In 2024, women accounted for 2.846 million research and experimental development (R&D) personnel, an increase of 1.692 million compared to 2012. (See Special Column 7)
(IV) Social Security is Continuously Consolidated
China has built the world's largest social security system, gradually narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas on the basis of "ensuring everyone who should be covered is covered," continuously improving social security policies for key groups, increasing assistance to women in difficulty, steadily improving treatment levels, and women enjoy more adequate, more reliable, and fairer social security.
Medical and pension insurance systems have achieved full coverage. The medical security system is continuously improved, and the financial subsidy standards for participation in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents are increased. In 2024, 651 million women participated in basic medical insurance, accounting for 49.1% of the total number of participants; 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents, accounting for 48% of the total number of participants; and 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban employees, accounting for 48.2% of the total number of participants.
More women have access to unemployment and work-related injury insurance. Attention is paid to protecting the employment, safety, and health of employees. As of the end of 2024, approximately 105 million women participated in unemployment insurance, 1.7 times that of 2012, accounting for 42.7% of the total number of participants; approximately 117 million women participated in work-related injury insurance, 1.6 times that of 2012, accounting for 38.6% of the total number of participants. Specific measures have been formulated to further ensure that new employment form personnel receive effective assistance and compensation after occupational injuries occur. Comprehensive on-site direct settlement of work-related injury insurance across provinces has been carried out to protect the rights and interests of female employees injured at work and to meet medical needs to a greater extent.
The level of maternity security for women has been significantly improved. The comprehensive promotion of the merger of maternity insurance and employee medical insurance has been implemented, the participation of employers in maternity insurance has been continuously promoted, the coverage of maternity insurance has been gradually expanded, and local areas with conditions have been guided to include flexible employment personnel in the coverage of maternity insurance. During the period when unemployed persons receive unemployment insurance benefits, maternity insurance premiums are paid by the unemployment insurance fund on their behalf, and unemployed women enjoy maternity medical treatment by participating in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents. As of the end of 2024, the number of women participating in maternity insurance reached 111 million. 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) have included appropriate assisted reproductive technology projects in medical insurance. (See Figure 4)
The bottom line of security for women in difficulty has been further strengthened. The minimum living security standards have been continuously improved. In 2024, the national average standards for urban and rural minimum living security were 2.4 times and 3.4 times those of 2012, respectively. Subsidies or premium payments are provided for women included in the low-income group and those in extreme poverty to participate in basic medical and pension insurance for urban and rural residents. A comprehensive system of living allowances for people with disabilities in difficulty and nursing allowances for people with severe disabilities has been established. In 2024, 9.395 million women enjoyed the two types of allowances for people with disabilities, accounting for 46% of the number of people enjoying the two types of allowances. Actions have been taken to provide precise care and assistance to vulnerable groups of rural left-behind women, carrying out work such as conducting surveys and establishing files, ensuring basic living conditions, promoting employment and income increase, and enriching spiritual life.
(V) Family Life is More Beautiful
China pays attention to the construction of family, family education, and family traditions, and pays attention to giving play to the unique role of women in social life and family life, in promoting the family virtues of the Chinese nation, and in establishing good family traditions, and continuously improves policies to support family development, enhances family development capabilities, and creates positive and favorable conditions for women to enjoy a more beautiful family life.
Family relationships in the new era are more equal and harmonious. The Civil Code, the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, and other laws and regulations have been promulgated to protect women's marital and family rights and interests. New types of marriage and childbearing culture are actively cultivated. Marriage registration authorities at the county level and above across the country generally carry out marriage and family counseling services. More than 2,000 experimental units promote marriage custom reform, and continue to carry out the "New Marriage Customs Entering Thousands of Homes" campaign, advocating values such as gender equality, mutual respect, and co-parenting. The fourth China Women's Social Status Survey shows that 90% of wives participate in major family affairs decisions, an increase of approximately 15 percentage points compared to 2010. The gap in housework time between men and women has narrowed, and people are more inclined to respect each other and trust each other in marital relationships.
A family-friendly society is gradually being established. To adapt to the needs of high-quality population development and family development, a number of measures have been introduced to accelerate the improvement of the fertility support policy system and promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society. The maternity leave system has been improved, and local regulations have been generally introduced in various places to extend maternity leave and male paternity leave, and add parental childcare leave. The implementation of special additional deductions for individual income tax for childcare for infants and young children under 3 years old, elderly care, and children's education. A childcare subsidy system has been established and implemented, and free preschool education is gradually being promoted. Employers are encouraged to build "family-friendly workplaces" and consult with employees to adopt flexible working methods such as flexible working hours and working from home to help employees balance career development and childcare, and provide maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, 403,000 unionized enterprises and institutions nationwide have established female employee rest and breastfeeding rooms. The allocation of maternal and infant facilities in public places has been strengthened. The "Unified Standard for the Design of Civil Buildings," the "Design Standard for Office Buildings," and the "Code for the Design of Railway Passenger Station Buildings" all put forward requirements for the setting of maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were 1,449 maternal and infant rooms built in railway stations nationwide, 5,371 maternal and infant rooms built in highway service areas (including parking areas) nationwide, 286 maternal and infant rooms built on passenger ships and port passenger stations in various places, all transportation airports with an annual passenger throughput of more than 5,000 passengers are equipped with maternal and infant rooms, 2,308 maternal and infant rooms have been built in secondary and above automobile passenger stations nationwide, and 2,599 maternal and infant rooms have been built in urban rail transit stations. (See Special Column 8)
Services to reduce the burden of family care are more diverse. Provide families with various forms of childcare services such as full-day care, half-day care, and temporary care, and support employers to run childcare facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were 5.737 million childcare slots nationwide, with 4.08 childcare slots for infants and young children under 3 years old per thousand people. A family education guidance service system covering urban and rural areas has been built, relying on more than 400,000 parent schools and more than 20,000 online new media platforms in urban and rural communities, giving play to the role of family education guidance service teams, organizing and carrying out colorful family parent-child activities, and sending scientific family education guidance services to homes and to people's sides. The supply pattern of elderly care services based on home, relying on the community, supported by institutions, and combining medical care and elderly care has been optimized, and services such as elderly meal assistance, bathing assistance, age-appropriate renovation, and barrier-free renovation of homes for people with disabilities in difficulty and severe disabilities are more convenient and accessible. The quality and capacity of the domestic service industry have been continuously promoted. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately 600,000 domestic service industry business entities and 16,000 "Heroines' Domestic Service" community service stations. The National Heroines' Domestic Service Vocational Skills Competition was held to encourage domestic service practitioners to improve their skills, build a growth platform for more related practitioners, and provide high-quality services for the majority of families. (See Special Column 9)
IV. Promoting Women to Walk at the Forefront of the Times
On the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, everyone is the protagonist. Chinese women consciously link their own future and destiny closely with the future and destiny of the country and the nation, actively devote themselves to the construction of a strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern power, make contributions to the new era with action, and create a better life with struggle.
(I) Making Contributions in High-Quality Economic Development
China has expanded channels for women's participation, improved participation capabilities, and stimulated creativity in promoting high-quality economic development, and the role of the vast number of women as "half the sky" has been fully demonstrated.
Demonstrating value in employment and entrepreneurship. Adhere to the employment-first strategy, increase financial investment, implement the "Heroines' Entrepreneurship and Innovation Action" and the "Heroines' Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Action," set up women's recruitment zones and hold special sessions in the "National Recruitment Action" and the "Spring Breeze Action," and promote the expansion of the scale and quality of women's employment. Incorporate gender discrimination in employment into the scope of labor security supervision, formulate the "Special Labor Protection System for Female Employees in the Workplace (Reference Text)" and the "System for Eliminating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Reference Text)," guide employers to improve the special labor protection system for female employees in the workplace and the system for eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of female employees. As of the end of 2024, 640 billion yuan in loans have been provided to support 8.49 million women in realizing their entrepreneurial dreams. Since 2012, the proportion of women in employment has remained at around 43%. The fifth economic census data shows that women account for 42.6% of employees in government agencies, institutions, and state-owned holding enterprises, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared to the fourth economic census. The vast number of women strive for excellence. Women account for 34% of national "moral models," and 30.9% of "the most beautiful people" and "national teaching and educating models." 1,821 women have been awarded the title of National Model Worker and Advanced Worker, 1,957 women have been awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal, 5,001 women have been awarded the National March 8th Red Banner Bearer title, and 6,489 women have been awarded the National Heroines' Contribution Pacesetter title. (See Special Column 10)
Striving for the lead in scientific and technological innovation. Implement the "Heroines' Action for Scientific and Technological Innovation," formulate the "Several Measures on Supporting Female Scientific and Technological Talents to Play a Greater Role in Scientific and Technological Innovation," and propose 16 specific measures to support female scientific and technological talents to undertake national science and technology plan projects, participate in science and technology decision-making, and improve the evaluation and incentive mechanism for female scientific and technological talents. The age limit for female applicants for the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Scientists Project A, B, and C categories is appropriately relaxed, extending by 3 years, 2 years, and 5 years respectively compared to male applicants. Relying on platforms such as the Zhongguancun Forum (中关村论坛), the Pujiang Innovation Forum (浦江创新论坛), and the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (世界人工智能大会), set up science and technology women's summits and forums, and continue to hold Heroines' Craftsman Forums and high-level female science and technology talent training courses to build a platform for female science and technology talents to exchange learning, transform achievements, and serve society. Women account for 45.8% of science and technology workers. They are gnawing at "hard bones" and breaking "bottleneck" problems on the front lines of scientific and technological innovation, concentrating on tackling key problems and climbing to new heights, making important contributions to promoting the construction of a strong science and technology country and accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. (See Special Column 11)
Standing at the forefront in rural revitalization. Implement the "Heroines' Action for Rural Revitalization," strengthen the training and empowerment of female farmers. Since 2017, the "High-Quality Farmers Training Program" has trained 2.241 million female farmers; from 2022 to 2024, the "Leading Goose" project for cultivating leaders in rural industrial revitalization has trained 12,000 women. The vast number of women have shown their talents in rural revitalization. Women account for 100 of the first batch of rural craftsmen masters identified by the "Double Hundred and Double Thousand" cultivation project for rural craftsmen, accounting for 36.6%; in the finals of the first National Farmers Skills Competition, women accounted for 69.5% of the award-winning players; as of the end of 2024, there were 134,000 female agricultural technology extension workers with technical titles, accounting for 35.4%. (See Special Column 12)
Blooming in the digital economy. The Outline for Improving National Digital Literacy and Skills Action and the Digital Village Development Action Plan have been promulgated, proposing measures such as carrying out digital literacy education and skills training for women and developing Heroines' e-commerce brands. The vast number of women adapt to the requirements of the digital age and actively devote themselves to the development of the digital economy. In 2024, a total of 14,147 women obtained artificial intelligence trainer vocational skill level certificates, accounting for 42.3%. Women account for more than half of the entrepreneurs in the Internet field. Women account for approximately one-third of the employees in new business forms such as digital trade, e-commerce, and live broadcasting, and the gender dividend of the digital economy is continuously released. (See Special Column 13)
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
China attaches importance to improving women's participation in the management of national, economic, cultural, and social affairs in the process of promoting whole-process people's democracy. Women enjoy equal political rights, actively participate in democratic practice, and actively contribute women's strength.
Exercising state power through the National People's Congress. The proportion of female representatives in the People's Congress has been continuously increasing. In 2023, there were 790 female representatives in the 14th National People's Congress (全国人大), accounting for 26.5%, an increase of 3.1 and 1.6 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th National People's Congresses, respectively; the proportion of female representatives in the National People's Congress at the county and township levels were 31.64% and 32.36%, respectively. Female representatives of the People's Congress perform their duties in accordance with the law, listen to and reflect the opinions and suggestions of women and various parties. From 2018 to 2025, female representatives of the National People's Congress put forward a total of 29,328 proposals, criticisms, and opinions, accounting for 42.3% of the total number of proposals. (See Special Column 14)
Offering policy advice and suggestions at various consultative conferences of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The proportion of female members in the CPPCC National Committee and local committees is on the rise. In 2023, there were 487 female members in the 14th CPPCC National Committee, accounting for 22.4%, an increase of 4.6 and 2 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th sessions, respectively. There were 5,401 female members in the provincial CPPCCs nationwide, accounting for 27.36% of the total number of provincial CPPCC members. Female CPPCC members conscientiously perform their duties and play an important role in political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs. Since the 14th session, female members of the CPPCC National Committee have submitted 4,282 proposals, accounting for 26.6% of the total number of proposals.
Actively participating in decision-making and management. Importance is attached to training and selecting female cadres and developing female party members. The Outline for the Construction of National Party and Government Leading Bodies and the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women are formulated and implemented, and quantitative and proportional requirements are put forward for the allocation of female cadres and female principal positions, so as to achieve full allocation on the premise of ensuring quality. The proportion of female party members in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and party congress representatives is gradually increasing. In 2024, female party members accounted for 30.9%, an increase of 7.1 percentage points compared with 2012. Female party members accounted for 27% of the delegates to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012. Female judges account for 42.3% of the total number of judges nationwide, female prosecutors account for 43.78% of the total number of prosecutors nationwide, and female jurors account for 51.5% of the total number of jurors nationwide.
Extensively participating in grassroots democratic construction. In the village committee election work, effective measures are taken to increase the proportion of women in village committees. In 2022, women accounted for 26.1% of village committee members, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with 2012; women accounted for 54.3% of neighborhood committee members, an increase of 5.5 percentage points compared with 2012. Female employees actively participate in the democratic management of enterprises. In 2023, female employee directors accounted for 37.7% of employee directors in enterprise boards of directors, an increase of 11.4 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee supervisors accounted for 41.9% of employee supervisors in enterprise supervisory boards, an increase of 14.9 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee representatives accounted for 34.2% of employee representative congresses, an increase of 4.4 percentage points compared with 2012. 431,000 women's councils have been established in urban and rural communities to conduct extensive consultations on public affairs involving women's vital interests.
(III) Showing elegance in the prosperity and development of culture
In promoting the construction of a strong socialist cultural country, China attaches importance to giving play to the important role of women in creating spiritual wealth, vigorously cultivates female cultural talents, and the vast number of women actively play their cultural innovation and creativity to inherit cultural genes and carry forward the fine traditional Chinese culture.
Bursting with vitality on the front line of spiritual and cultural communication. The vast number of women have become an important force in cultural prosperity and development, and are playing an increasingly important role in cultural creation, cultural communication, and cultural research. Female literary and art workers have created a large number of excellent works, including Peking Opera "Mother", ballet "Yimeng", essay collection "My Altay", TV series "When Mountain Flowers Bloom", film "Beautiful Life", documentary "Aunt Haiyun", variety shows "Flowers Bloom" and "Riding the Wind 2024", short drama "The World of Aunts", and other literary and artistic works that shape the image of women in the new era. By the end of 2023, there were 456,900 female employees in radio, television, and online audio-visual industries nationwide, accounting for 43.14%. In the 2024 senior professional title evaluation for the news series organized by the National Press and Publication Administration (国家新闻出版署), women accounted for 44.1% of those awarded the title of senior professional, and women accounted for 50.6% of those awarded the title of associate senior professional. Women account for 27.5% of relevant key talent projects in the field of publicity and ideology and culture, of which women account for 45.2% of the selected personnel in the National Cultural Masters Project and 42.5% of the selected personnel in the Young Cultural Masters Project. The vast number of women vigorously spread and practice the core socialist values.
Showing advantages in the "living" inheritance of national culture. Women inject new vitality into national culture through skills inheritance, cultural innovation and communication, and other means. Women account for 25% of the 3,997 national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage recognized by the state. 51,000 trainees have participated in the "China Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Group Training Program", of which women account for 57%. Special projects such as the China Traditional Craft Revitalization Plan and the Intangible Cultural Heritage to Help Rural Revitalization have been carried out. A large number of female leaders have transformed local natural resources and local cultural resources into cultural products and cultural industries. Handicraft brands such as "Dove Flower·Songtao Miao Embroidery" in Guizhou (贵州) and "Weiyuan Tu Embroidery" in Qinghai (青海) have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. New business forms such as "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Homestay", "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Cultural Creation", and "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Study Tour" have been launched one after another. National traditional culture has nurtured new vitality in the hands of women. Digital technology empowers traditional culture to radiate new vitality. More and more young women have become the backbone of the "national trend" and the "living" inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, so that intangible cultural heritage can be integrated into contemporary life and go to the world in a new posture. (See Column 15)
Shining brightly in competitive sports and mass sports activities. The Outline for Building a Sports Power clearly proposes the goal of achieving balanced development of men's and women's projects. The Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games issued the "Commitment to Promoting Gender Equality", making 14 commitments in terms of equal participation, equal and fair publicity, and promoting gender equality in leadership positions and staff. The number of Chinese female athletes is growing rapidly, and the proportion of international-level female athletes has remained above 50%. Since 2012, the proportion of female participants in the four Summer Olympic Games has exceeded 55%, and the proportion of female medal winners has exceeded 60%; the proportion of female participants in the four Summer Paralympic Games has accounted for 50.22%, and the proportion of female medal winners has accounted for 55.62%. Female athletes fight for the country, unite and cooperate, and challenge the limits, supporting the "other half of the sky" of competitive sports. The spirit of the women's volleyball team has become a powerful spiritual force to inspire generations of Chinese people. Mass fitness activities are widely carried out. The "Training Program for Female Social Sports Instructors in Ten Thousand Villages" has trained more than 65,000 rural female social sports instructors. By the end of 2024, there were approximately 3.71 million social sports instructors nationwide, of which women accounted for 56.1%, demonstrating women's responsibility in developing the national fitness cause in the new era.
(IV) Taking responsibility in grassroots social governance
In building a grassroots social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance and sharing, China attaches importance to giving play to the role of women and women's organizations, expanding channels for women to participate in grassroots governance in an orderly manner, and ensuring that women manage grassroots public affairs and public welfare undertakings in accordance with the law. The vast number of women actively take responsibility and become an important force in grassroots governance.
Actively giving play to the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance. Improve mechanisms for family civilization construction, collaborative education between families, schools and communities, effective supply of family services, and resolution of marital and family conflicts and disputes, so as to provide guarantees for women to lead family members to jointly build and share a safe and harmonious society. Deepen the construction of family civilization, carry out activities to find the "most beautiful families", continue to create civilized families, select five-good families, and carry out a series of activities to cultivate a good family style such as "displaying family rules and precepts to promote family style", "passing on family style through family letters", and "family style of scientists and educators", and vigorously promote the new socialist family civilization style of loving the country and the family, loving each other, being upward and good, and building and sharing together. A total of 1,597 national civilized families have been created, 6,258 national five-good families have been selected, 16.48 million "most beautiful families" of various types have emerged, and more than 500,000 family education and family style tour performances have been organized, covering 250 million people. (See Column 16)
Extensively participating in the construction of safe and harmonious communities. Women actively participate in comprehensive social management to help resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level. All localities actively explore the "Women's Federation +" mediation model. By the end of 2024, the Women's Federation had led the establishment of 3,690 people's mediation committees for marital and family disputes above the county level, promoted the entry of marital mediation organizations into comprehensive management centers, litigation service centers, and community police offices, and established marital mediation studios in villages (communities). Since 2016, nearly 1.36 million cases have been mediated. In 2023, women accounted for 295 of the 999 national model people's mediators commended by the Ministry of Justice, accounting for 29.5%. Women actively participate in security patrols and supervision and inspection. The "Jiangdong Dama" working team in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang (镇江) City, Jiangsu (江苏) Province, has participated in a total of 5,000 hours of voluntary patrols and more than 1,000 public welfare activities since its establishment in 2017. The "Xicheng Dama" in Beijing (北京) and the "Jingguo Civil Affairs Officers" in Weinan (渭南) City, Shaanxi (陕西) Province, promptly discover and report hidden dangers in social governance, becoming the outposts for resolving grassroots conflicts. The vast number of women are active in the groups of community workers, grid members, and building leaders, playing an important role in building safe and harmonious communities. (See Column 17)
Enthusiastically participating in social public welfare undertakings such as volunteer services. Importance is attached to guiding and supporting the healthy development of volunteer services and social organizations, and the vast number of women actively participate. In 2024, there were 24 million registered female volunteers and 350,000 female volunteer service teams nationwide, carrying out nearly one million female volunteer service activities. The service areas cover the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda, playing an important role in supporting national strategies, guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, and strengthening social governance. The number of women participating in social organizations has increased. In 2023, the proportion of women among employees and heads of social organizations was 42.3% and 26.3% respectively, an increase of 13.3 and 4.9 percentage points respectively compared with 2012. (See Column 18)
(V) Making practical contributions to ecological civilization construction
China firmly establishes and practices the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and builds a modern society in which man and nature coexist in harmony. The vast number of women continue to improve their awareness and ability to participate in ecological and environmental protection, and play an important role in building a beautiful China.
Promoting the protection and restoration of ecosystems. We will coordinate the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and strive to build a large pattern of protection and management from mountain tops to the ocean. The vast number of women actively participate in the protection and restoration of ecosystems. In the Sanjiangyuan National Park (三江源国家公园) with an area of 190,700 square kilometers, more than 17,000 ecological rangers are on duty day and night, of which women account for 33.3%. The "Tree Planting Women's Army" in Changjiang Li Autonomous County (昌江黎族自治县), Hainan (海南) Province, has continued to explore and repeatedly experiment for more than 30 years, planting more than 6 million trees of nearly 30,000 mu of coastal defense forests in the desert. The Shaanxi Women's Militia Sand Control Company has controlled 14,000 mu of desert areas for more than 50 years, turning the once barren and uninhabited desert into a desert oasis with "forests forming nets and trees forming rows". The "Red Vest" female volunteer service team in Helan (贺兰) County, Ningxia (宁夏), carries out river protection, beach protection, and bird protection activities all year round. Nanjing (南京) City, Jiangsu (江苏) Province, continues to carry out the "Yangtze River Protection" female action. Women's perseverance and wisdom are demonstrated in all aspects of increasing green and protecting forests, preventing and controlling desertification, protecting rivers, and protecting biodiversity. (See Column 19)
Helping the green transformation of production methods. China regards green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems, and strives to build a green, low-carbon, and circular economic system. The vast number of women actively participate in the practice of promoting the green development of industry, transforming agricultural production methods, and improving the green level of the service industry. In 2024, the number of enterprises invested in by female entrepreneurs in the national green economy field reached 445,000, accounting for 27.4%, covering subdivided markets such as clean energy, organic agriculture, and ecological protection. Through scientific management of fertilizer and pesticide use, innovative ecological planting models, and other methods, we will help conserve agricultural resources, protect and manage the ecological environment of agricultural production areas, and supply green and high-quality agricultural products, and promote the multi-win situation of "less pesticide use, more income, and better environment". Actively create new ecological industry models such as urban modern agriculture, leisure agriculture, ecological tourism, boutique homestays, and rural complexes. By the end of 2024, women had established 487,000 family farms, and women accounted for 68.6% of those who had obtained vocational skill level certificates for homestay managers. (See Column 20)
Practicing green and low-carbon lifestyles. Green development is closely related to everyone. The vast number of women actively advocate ecological civilization values and advocate simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized, and healthy lifestyles and consumption patterns. Taking the lead in creating green families, promoting water and electricity conservation, "CD-ROM action", green travel, and garbage sorting in families and communities, and integrating green concepts into daily life. Actively participate in the construction of beautiful courtyards, participate in the construction of harmonious and beautiful villages in accordance with the standards of clean rooms, hygienic kitchens and toilets, tidy courtyards, rich greening, and harmonious family style, and currently have more than 12 million "beautiful courtyards". The vast number of women are active on the front line of environmental protection knowledge publicity and community environmental improvement, such as Shanghai (上海) widely carrying out the theme activity of "Millions of Families' New Fashion · Garbage Sorting Women's Action", looking for the most beautiful green families in ten thousand households, and recruiting one hundred thousand family volunteers for garbage sorting, creating a good atmosphere for millions of families to participate in garbage sorting.
Participating in disaster prevention and mitigation work. China takes ensuring the safety of people's lives as the primary goal of disaster prevention and mitigation work, adheres to mass prevention and control, and enhances the ability of the entire society to resist and respond to disasters. Women are involved in disaster scientific research and early warning work, and have played an active role in disaster risk identification and information transmission, early warning and disposal, and disaster reporting. In 2024, there were 267,000 women in the national disaster information officer team, accounting for 23.6%, and women accounted for 61.6% of the national chief meteorological experts. Cooperate to carry out disaster prevention and mitigation publicity and disaster relief work, promote popular science publicity and education into families, and there are 13.71 million women among the national registered fire protection volunteers, accounting for 52.4%. At the same time, the "National Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan" puts forward requirements for protecting the rights and interests of special groups, and strengthens the material security of special needs such as women's sanitary products and maternity products through government-social coordination.
V. Contributing Chinese strength to the development of the global women's cause
China upholds the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, conforms to the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results, actively promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, and works with all countries to accelerate action, create an international environment conducive to women's development, and jointly build and share a better world for all women and for everyone.
(I) Participating in global governance in the field of women
China actively plays a leading role, implements the spirit of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, and promotes global governance in the field of women with practical actions.
Supporting the United Nations in playing a central role. Co-hosting the Global Women's Summit with UN Women to promote countries to fulfill their commitments and inject new impetus into the development of the global women's cause. At the UN Human Rights Council, China has made joint statements on promoting and protecting women's rights on many occasions, promoted the adoption of relevant resolutions, and called on countries to work together to implement the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. We will continue to send high-level delegations to attend the sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and cooperate with UN organizations and relevant agencies to conduct discussions on women's poverty reduction, digital economy, inclusive finance, technology empowerment, and gender equality in population change, and share China's experience in promoting women's development. Since 2015, China has donated US$20 million to UN Women, carried out practical cooperation in the field of women with a number of UN specialized agencies, and cooperated with UNESCO to establish a prize for girls' and women's education, and carried out projects such as girls' digital education and health education in Africa. Chinese women hold important positions and experts in the UN system, contributing wisdom to promoting global governance in the field of women. (See Column 21)
Firmly fulfill international obligations. Fulfill various international conventions such as the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," submit national implementation reports in a timely manner, actively participate in reviews, and promote gender equality and women's development. Actively practice the "Beijing Declaration" and the "Platform for Action," continuously improve the living and development conditions of women, achieve the poverty reduction and health-related goals of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda ahead of schedule, and provide the world with Chinese solutions for protecting women's human rights.
Leading and promoting multilateral and regional women's development agendas. At the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, the "Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative" was proposed, emphasizing the avoidance of gender discrimination in the development of artificial intelligence; promoting the adoption of the "Strengthening International Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building" resolution by the 78th United Nations General Assembly, emphasizing ensuring that everyone fully enjoys the benefits of artificial intelligence, improving digital inclusion, achieving gender equality, and enhancing the empowerment of women and girls. Since 2012, 29 women's conferences have been held within the cooperation frameworks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Group of Twenty (G20), BRICS countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), China-ASEAN, China-Africa, China-Arab States, China-Central Asia, and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, deeply participating in women's field cooperation under relevant mechanisms, focusing on issues such as poverty reduction and development, employment and entrepreneurship, education empowerment, and anti-epidemic cooperation, conducting in-depth experience sharing and discussion dialogues, creating cooperation and exchange platforms for empowering women, and proposing Chinese propositions on promoting women's comprehensive development and promoting inclusive and sustainable development.
(II) Deepening Women's Development Cooperation and Exchanges
China will organically integrate the deepening of women's development cooperation into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the "South-South Cooperation" framework to jointly promote women's sustainable development.
Promoting women's development in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road." Actively promoting the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," "Silk Road E-commerce," and other initiatives have brought employment opportunities and created development conditions for women in co-building countries; launching the "Women's Digital Skills Enhancement Program" in Southeast Asian countries to help women's employment and entrepreneurship. With the theme of "Gathering Women's Strength to Jointly Build the 'Belt and Road'," a series of activities have been held in China and co-building countries for 10 consecutive years to help women in co-building countries become supporters, participants, promoters, and beneficiaries of the "Belt and Road" construction.
Helping "South-South Cooperation" in women's poverty reduction and development. Supporting developing countries in improving the environment for women's survival and development, implementing 100 "Maternal and Child Health Projects" and 100 "Happy Campus Projects," and launching "small and beautiful" livelihood projects that empower women and girls, such as housing, rural roads, and skills training. Using the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, more than 40 million US dollars of women's field projects have been implemented in more than 20 countries. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund has invested 12 million yuan to support the implementation of women's development projects. Juncao technology helps women's employment in 106 countries through foreign aid training and technical assistance. (See Special Column 22)
Deepening international cooperation in women's capacity building. Continuously increasing the training of women in developing countries. Since 2018, support for training projects on women and children's themes in developing countries has been increased, and more than 100 training projects such as the Maternal and Child Health Promotion Seminar under the Global Development Initiative and the "Seminar on the Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for Developing Countries—Women and Children Special" have been specially established and implemented, and academic degree programs in women's leadership and social development have been carried out, with a cumulative training of nearly 4,000 outstanding talents in the women's field. The Global Women's Development Cooperation and Exchange Training Base was established in Beijing (北京) to tailor women's empowerment projects for developing countries, and Sino-foreign women's training (exchange) centers were established in cooperation with 15 countries. Carry out international cooperation in vocational education, and "Luban Workshops" have cumulatively trained 5,944 female students, accounting for 23.25% of the total number of students.
Solidly promote people-to-people exchanges in the women's field. Actively develop global partnerships and carry out friendly exchanges with women's organizations and institutions in more than 140 countries in an all-round and multi-channel manner. Carry out dialogue and exchanges with foreign female politicians, heads of state's wives, and government ministers, and send high-level delegations to visit foreign countries, creating a new situation in high-level women's diplomacy. Deepen women's exchanges under the people-to-people exchange mechanisms between China and relevant countries, hold special seminars on the themes of women's entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, women's education, anti-domestic violence, and family culture, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in women's rights, eliminating the digital gender gap, and promoting women's participation in scientific and technological innovation and sustainable development. Carry out the "Foreign Female Diplomats Look at China" series of activities, share China's vivid practices in women's participation in economic development and grassroots governance, and exchange experiences and practices in promoting gender equality. Support women's participation in cross-cultural exchanges, with women accounting for 80% of dispatched Chinese teachers and 90% of international Chinese education volunteers.
(III) Actively Responding to Global Challenges
China supports women in playing an active role in maintaining peace and security and responding to challenges such as climate change, public health crises, and humanitarian disasters.
Supporting women's participation in maintaining peace and security. Take practical actions to implement the UN Security Council resolution "on Women, Peace and Security" and support women in playing an important role in conflict prevention, peace negotiations and home reconstruction. In 2022, the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund launched a senior female talent training program to promote gender equality in senior positions in UN peacekeeping operations. China has more than 1,200 female peacekeeping officers and soldiers and more than 100 female peacekeeping police officers participating in medical support, liaison and coordination, mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal, patrol observation, and promoting gender equality and women's protection. (See Special Column 23)
Empowering women to respond to climate change. Continue to hold South-South cooperation training courses on climate change, implement a gender-balanced enrollment policy, and since 2022, nearly 300 female officials, experts, and scholars from developing countries' climate change projects have come to China to participate in training. From 2012 to 2024, nearly 100 foreign aid training projects in the fields of meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and services were undertaken, and women accounted for 36.72% of the trainees. Donated 5,000 sets of solar household photovoltaic power generation systems and 10,000 clean stoves to Myanmar (缅甸) to reduce the harm of indoor air pollution to women's health and promote low-carbon transformation. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Fund supports Cambodia (柬埔寨) in carrying out climate action gender mainstreaming projects to enhance the climate adaptability and resilience of rural women.
Pay attention to the needs of women in international humanitarian assistance. Pay close attention to women and children in participating in alleviating the migrant and refugee crisis, encourage women to register as recipients of family assistance materials, give special care to pregnant and lactating women, and the Congo (Brazzaville) project sets pregnant and lactating women as beneficiaries, effectively reducing the malnutrition rate of women and children. In 2023, more than 120,000 hygiene kits worth 1.5 million US dollars were provided to Rohingya women and girls sheltering in Bangladesh (孟加拉国), benefiting more than 60,000 women and girls.
Concluding remarks
The pursuit of gender equality is a great cause. The spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement of Chinese women in the new era is blooming on the road of striving forward by people of all ethnic groups across the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党); the glorious course of the development of women's cause in China in the new era is deeply integrated into the historical process of achieving the "two centenary goals" under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Chinese women have never enjoyed such great opportunities to shine in life and realize their dreams as they do today, and the cause of Chinese women has never had such broad development space as it does today.
At present, China is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, which requires gathering the strength of hundreds of millions of women and promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development at a higher level. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, China will unswervingly follow the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the basic national policy of gender equality, implement the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women in depth, improve women's comprehensive quality, actively create conditions and build platforms for women's participation in economic and social development, protect women's legitimate rights and interests, and let women walk at the forefront of the times.
In today's world, promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development faces both opportunities and arduous tasks. All countries still need to work hard to create a peaceful and tranquil environment for women's survival and development, eliminate violence, discrimination, poverty, and other problems, and effectively respond to the adverse effects of climate change; continue to empower women's development, promote women to enjoy more and better opportunities and play a more important role in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation; adhere to true multilateralism, firmly fulfill international obligations, and promote exchanges and mutual learning among women from all countries and connect people's hearts. China is willing to work with all countries in the world to join hands, accelerate action, jointly create a better future for women's development, and jointly compose a new chapter in the development of the global women's cause!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Reporter) - The China Foreign Affairs University (外交学院) held a grand gathering in Beijing (北京) on the 19th to celebrate its 70th anniversary. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, attended and delivered a speech.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the China Foreign Affairs University (外交学院) is a school with a glorious history and fine traditions, and has made important contributions to the diplomatic cause of New China. Facing the current international situation of intertwined changes and chaos, Chinese diplomacy, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) diplomatic thought, holds high the bright banner of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and firmly acts as a force for world peace, a force for stability, and a force for progress. Major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics has entered a new historical stage in which it can be more promising. The China Foreign Affairs University (外交学院) should build new achievements in cultivating people with soul, reach new heights in theoretical innovation, open up new paths in discipline construction, and create new chapters in opening up and cooperation with a more innovative and pioneering spirit and a more pragmatic work style. It should cultivate more talents who are loyal, reliable, and capable of taking on important responsibilities, contribute more Chinese wisdom to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and provide stronger support for major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics.
Wang Yi (王毅) encouraged the students to set great ambitions, follow the right path, and do practical things, closely link their ideals with the needs of the motherland, forge a soul of loyalty, consolidate the foundation of their profession, temper the spirit of struggle, and dare to take responsibility, undertake the historical task of promoting major-country diplomacy, and write a brilliant chapter belonging to a new generation.
Responsible comrades from the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (中联部), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and the Beijing (北京市) Municipality, as well as foreign envoys to China and representatives from various universities, totaling approximately 300 people, participated.
The China Foreign Affairs University (外交学院) was founded in 1955 at the personal initiative of Premier Zhou Enlai (周恩来). It is the only directly affiliated university of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (外交部), a national "Double First-Class" construction university, and an important base for diplomatic talent, and is known as the "cradle of Chinese diplomats."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Xinhua) -- On September 19th, the 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Latin American Countries Special Session) symposium was held at the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature (中国现代文学馆) in Beijing (北京). Young poets from 15 Latin American countries and China exchanged and discussed the value and function of poetry, artistic innovation, and other topics.
Participating guests believe that poetry has a special place in Chinese and Latin American civilizations, and young poets have a responsibility to inherit the cultural traditions of their respective nations and promote the greater role of poetry in contemporary life. The foundation of literary exchanges between China and Latin America is profound, and efforts should be further strengthened to mutually translate works, allowing more excellent works to be seen, appreciated, and passed on. Participating guests expressed that they should use poetry as a medium and poetry to make friends, so that poetry can become a more lasting and solid link for cultural exchanges between China and Latin America, and jointly write a new chapter in building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
The 2025 International Youth Poetry Festival (China-Latin American Countries Special Session) is hosted by the Chinese Writers Association (中国作协) and the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department (陕西省委宣传部), with the theme of "Echoes of Civilization." Chinese and foreign poets gathered in Shaanxi (陕西) and Beijing (北京) to carry out a variety of colorful cultural activities such as poetry recitations, academic dialogues, and on-site visits.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 冯 华
On September 19th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a series of thematic press conferences on "High-Quality Completion of the '14th Five-Year Plan'," introducing the high-quality development promoted by high-level ecological and environmental protection during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. Huang Runqiu (黄润秋), Minister of Ecology and Environment, stated that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the Party Central Committee (党中央) made a series of major deployments, promoting a leapfrog shift from focusing on winning the battle against pollution to comprehensively advancing the construction of a Beautiful China.
New Achievements in the Battle Against Pollution
Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," significant strides have been made in the construction of a Beautiful China. The national ecological environment quality has continued to improve. In 2024, the concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in national prefecture-level and above cities decreased to 29.3 micrograms per cubic meter, a decrease of 16.3% compared to 2020; the proportion of days with excellent air quality reached 87.2%, an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared to 2020; and the proportion of surface water sections with excellent water quality exceeded 90% for the first time. The people's satisfaction with the ecological environment has exceeded 90% for four consecutive years.
New achievements have been made in the battle against pollution. In terms of the Blue Sky Defense War, in 2024, the concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region and surrounding areas, the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, and the Fenwei Plain (汾渭平原) decreased by 18%, 10%, and 20% respectively compared to 2020. In terms of the Clear Water Defense War, a comprehensive "investigation, measurement, tracing, and treatment" of sewage outlets was carried out, identifying more than 360,000 sewage outlets into rivers and 63,000 sewage outlets into the sea, and more than 3,000 black and odorous water bodies in prefecture-level and above cities were basically eliminated. In terms of the Pure Land Defense War, source control actions for soil pollution were implemented, basically completing the pollution tracing of heavy metals in agricultural land soil in 132 key counties, and a number of prominent ecological and environmental problems in solid waste and new pollutant management have been effectively resolved.
New steps have been taken in green and low-carbon development. Efforts have been made to promote synergistic efficiency in reducing pollution and carbon emissions, with 1.12 billion kilowatts of coal-fired power units and 950 million tons of crude steel production capacity completing ultra-low emission retrofits for the entire process or key projects. The world's largest carbon emission trading market has been established and is operating stably, covering more than 60% of the country's carbon emissions, and the internal driving force and innovation vitality of green development have been significantly enhanced.
New progress has been made in ecological protection and restoration supervision. The area of land ecological protection red lines accounts for more than 30%. A number of major biodiversity protection projects have been implemented, and 90% of terrestrial ecosystem types and 74% of national key wild plant and animal populations have been effectively protected.
The effectiveness of ecological environment governance has been newly enhanced. Eight rounds of central ecological environment protection inspections have been organized and carried out, further consolidating the political responsibility for the construction of a Beautiful China. A full-coverage ecological environment zoning control system has been basically established. More than 3.86 million stationary pollution sources have been included in the "one-permit" management of pollutant discharge permits. The world's largest and most comprehensive national ecological environment quality monitoring network has been established.
New responsibilities have been demonstrated in global environmental governance. A solemn commitment to carbon peaking and carbon neutrality has been made and implemented. The 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (《生物多样性公约》第十五次缔约方大会) was successfully held, promoting the achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" ( “昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架”), launching the "Kunming Fund" ( “昆明基金”), and effectively boosting confidence in global biodiversity protection. The South-South cooperation and the green "Belt and Road" construction have been further promoted, making Chinese contributions to building a clean and beautiful world.
Promoting the Development of New Quality Productive Forces with High-Level Protection
Currently, China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development that accelerates greening and low-carbonization. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) has built a set of effective policies around promoting the development of new quality productive forces with high-level protection, actively cultivating and expanding green productivity, and continuously shaping new momentum and new advantages for development.
Strengthen access management to promote the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure. Fully implement the zoning control system. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the number of environmental impact assessment approvals for high-emission and high-pollution projects nationwide has continued to decline; the number of environmental impact assessments for wind power, new energy vehicles, and other projects has continued to increase, with year-on-year increases of 44.4% and 31.3% respectively in the first half of 2025; since the "14th Five-Year Plan," 14,600 environmental impact assessment documents for high-tech industrial projects in the electronic information manufacturing category have been approved, providing strong factor guarantees for the development of new quality productive forces. Guo Fang (郭芳), Deputy Minister of Ecology and Environment, introduced that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," a "two-level, three-category, one-list" ecological environment zoning control system has been built nationwide, and all regions have released provincial and municipal-level control plans, delineating more than 40,000 control units of three types: "priority protection, key control, and general control," and formulating differentiated access lists. "This year, a five-year regular adjustment of the zoning control plan will also be carried out to provide stronger support for promoting high-quality development and building a Beautiful China," said Guo Fang (郭芳).
Strengthen standard leadership to promote the quality and efficiency of traditional industries. Improve the ecological environment standard system and complete the formulation and revision of 32 emission standards. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," 198 million tons of coking capacity and 110 million tons of cement clinker capacity have completed ultra-low emission retrofits, and more than 2,000 coal-fired boilers have implemented organized emission retrofits.
Accelerate technological innovation and stimulate new momentum for green development. Build a national comprehensive service platform for the transformation of ecological environment scientific and technological achievements, gathering more than 5,000 excellent scientific and technological achievements to help enterprises develop green and low-carbon.
Develop green finance to help promote green and low-carbon transformation. Deeply promote the innovation of new models for project development oriented by the ecological environment, with more than 100 projects receiving support from financial institutions, obtaining credit lines of 216.4 billion yuan and issuing loans of 76.4 billion yuan.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the central ecological environment protection inspection system. "The inspection has seriously investigated and dealt with a number of major typical cases and solved a number of prominent ecological environment problems that the people strongly reflect," said Yu Huiwen (于会文), Deputy Minister of Ecology and Environment. As of June this year, 3,294 rectification tasks from the first round of inspections and "look back" have been basically completed, the completion rate of 2,164 rectification tasks from the second round has exceeded 85%, and the third round of inspection rectification is also being steadily promoted. The vast majority of the 350,000 public complaints accepted and transferred by the inspection have been completed or completed in stages.
Actively Promote Work on Climate Change and Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the "dual carbon" goal. Li Gao (李高), Deputy Minister of Ecology and Environment, introduced that the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) is actively promoting work on climate change and carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Promote the construction and implementation of a carbon peaking and carbon neutrality policy system, work with relevant departments to actively promote the transformation and upgrading of energy and industry and the green and low-carbon development of key areas, promote the construction of the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, and the total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation has completed the 2030 national independent contribution target ahead of schedule, and the carbon dioxide emission intensity has continued to decline. Actively promote the construction of a national carbon market. As of September 18, the cumulative transaction volume of national carbon emission trading market quotas reached 714 million tons, and the cumulative transaction amount reached 48.961 billion yuan. Take the lead in building a product carbon footprint management system, guide the release of more than 100 product carbon footprint accounting standards, and launch the national greenhouse gas emission factor database. Deeply promote adaptation to climate change, jointly issue and implement the "National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2035" with multiple departments, and deepen the pilot construction of 39 climate-adaptive cities.
Building a Beautiful China is an important part of realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) continues to promote the implementation of the construction of a Beautiful China, the construction of pilot areas for a Beautiful China has been fully launched, and the construction of beautiful rivers and lakes and beautiful bays has been accelerated. Huang Runqiu (黄润秋) said: "Looking forward to the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we will anchor our goals, continue our efforts, and accelerate the formation of a new pattern for the construction of a Beautiful China."
Return to TopThis report Changchun (长春) September 19 (Reporters Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文) and Men Jiewei (门杰伟)) On the 19th, the 2025 Air Force Aviation Open Day and Changchun (长春) Air Show opened in Changchun (长春), Jilin (吉林).
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the Air Force's combat-oriented training, the event includes more than 10 performance items, with 16 aircraft types participating in the aerial display, and nearly 100 types of equipment participating in the ground static display. The event also features immersive experience areas such as simulated flight, drone operation, and skydiving to interact with the public.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
The "New Era Lecture Hall" event, themed "80 Years of Solidarity: The United Nations' Mission Heritage and New Paths for Global Governance," was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York recently. More than 200 people attended, including representatives from the United Nations Secretariat and permanent missions of various countries to the United Nations, as well as Chinese and foreign scholars. Attendees agreed that as the United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary, it is crucial to revisit the original aspiration of the United Nations and safeguard the core position of the United Nations. The global governance initiatives proposed by China are in line with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter, meet the urgent needs of today's world, and are conducive to promoting countries to work together to address global challenges.
"The role of the United Nations as the core of global governance is more critical than ever"
The event was co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations and China Daily. Fu Cong (傅聪), Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, said in his keynote speech that 80 years ago, the international community learned from the devastation of the two World Wars, and the United Nations emerged as the times required, opening a new chapter in global governance. Since then, multilateralism has become a broad consensus, peaceful development has become the aspiration of the people, and win-win cooperation has become a universal pursuit. In this process, the United Nations has played an irreplaceable role.
Li Junhua (李军华), Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, said that the world is facing protracted conflicts, increasing debt distress, widening inequality gaps, and increasingly serious climate change impacts. "These challenges cross borders and require us to revitalize multilateralism, deepen solidarity and cooperation, and strengthen international collaboration. As the United Nations celebrates its 80th anniversary, the role of the United Nations as the core of global governance is more critical than ever."
Singaporean scholar Kishore Mahbubani said in a video speech that 80 years later, the importance of the United Nations is becoming increasingly prominent. Faced with common challenges and concerns such as climate change, the world today needs a strong and credible United Nations more than ever. Human beings live together in an increasingly interdependent global village and must strengthen global governance. The best way to achieve this goal is to strengthen the role of the United Nations.
Jialan Hui (嘉兰惠), curator of the American Chennault Aviation Military Museum and granddaughter of General Chennault (陈纳德), commander of the American Flying Tigers, was recently invited to attend the grand gathering in Beijing to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. She believes that this grand event evokes people's memories of World War II. Peace is not an inherent gift, and every generation must strive to safeguard peace and continue to write new chapters for it. "Remembering this history allows us to see the possibilities that human unity can create, understand which values are worth upholding, and can also guide current policy-making: to focus on the long term rather than pursuing short-term political interests," said Jialan Hui (嘉兰惠).
"China's efforts to promote global cooperation in addressing the challenges of the 21st century have been very effective"
With the collective rise of the Global South, the problems of the current global governance system being unadapted and unmatched are becoming increasingly prominent. The vast majority of countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, are calling for change more and more loudly. Focusing on the era issue of "what kind of global governance system to build and how to reform and improve global governance," President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the global governance initiative, which not only conforms to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries, but also meets the urgent needs of today's world. The initiative points out the five core concepts of adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centeredness, and emphasizing action-orientedness, and clarifies the principles, methods, and paths that need to be followed in reforming and improving global governance.
Fu Cong (傅聪) said that 80 years later, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, unilateralism and hegemonic acts are rampant, and the international system with the United Nations as its core is facing unprecedented challenges. Strengthening and improving global governance is the general trend and the aspiration of the people. China's proposal of the global governance initiative further contributes Chinese wisdom and proposes Chinese solutions for strengthening and improving global governance. The initiative has aroused heated discussions in the international community as soon as it was put forward and has been widely welcomed by all parties, including United Nations Secretary-General Guterres.
Dima Al-Khatib, Director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, said that China has made significant contributions to promoting South-South cooperation and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The proposal of the global governance initiative is another important measure for China to support South-South cooperation. Countries of the Global South are actively exploring pragmatic cooperation paths and look forward to China playing an important role in promoting the implementation of relevant cooperation mechanisms and translating cooperation visions into tangible results.
Li Junhua (李军华) said that for a long time, China has always been an important supporter of the United Nations in addressing the global governance deficit. The proposal of the global governance initiative comes at the right time, injecting impetus into uniting all parties and promoting the realization of a common future. Global challenges require collective solutions. At a time when policy uncertainty is increasing and the geopolitical situation is tense, strengthening international cooperation is particularly critical.
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University in the United States, said that the global governance initiative proposed by China complements the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative. It is a major contribution of China to the world and helps the world achieve a shared future of peace and stability, improved people's well-being, environmental sustainability, and social fairness and justice. "China's efforts to promote global cooperation in addressing the challenges of the 21st century have been very effective and have made outstanding contributions to it."
"Helping to create a better, safer, and more peaceful world"
Fu Cong (傅聪) said that China has always been a firm builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, a maintainer of the international order, and a provider of public goods. The four major global initiatives have their own focuses and run in parallel without conflict. From the four dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, they inject stability and certainty into a turbulent world and demonstrate China's responsibility in international affairs.
Qu Yingpu (曲莹璞), President and Editor-in-Chief of China Daily, said that the four major global initiatives conform to the universal aspirations of the people of all countries and meet the urgent needs of today's world. "We must jointly practice the four major global initiatives, with governance as the key, adhere to multilateralism, and inject more positive energy into the world in the process of joint consultation, joint construction, and sharing; with development as the priority, adhere to universal benefit and inclusiveness, and fulfill the oath of 'not letting any country or any person be left behind' in joint actions; with peace as the foundation, adhere to 'common destiny,' and consolidate the security dam in mutual assistance; with exchange as the key, adhere to mutual appreciation, and promote people-to-people connectivity in mutual learning among civilizations."
Al-Khatib said that China has rich experience in poverty alleviation, modernization, energy transition, and other fields, and continues to strengthen its ties with countries around the world in terms of interconnection, trade, knowledge exchange, and innovation cooperation. "In recent years, China has put forward a series of demand-oriented initiatives that have effectively promoted cooperation in infrastructure construction, interconnection, green development, and other fields. Platforms such as the China International Import Expo have expanded market channels for companies from various countries and created more development opportunities."
"We live in a multipolar, multi-civilizational, and increasingly interconnected world, and we need to conduct deeper levels of civilizational dialogue," Mahbubani said. To achieve this dialogue, the key is to learn to respect each other and enhance understanding. "Through exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, we can help create a better, safer, and more peaceful world."
(Reported from the United Nations on September 19 by this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Reporters Wen Xin (温馨) and Feng Xinran (冯歆然)) On the afternoon of September 19th, the 2025 UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education Award Ceremony and the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the establishment of the award were held in Beijing (北京). Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛), wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Special Envoy of UNESCO for the Promotion of Girls' and Women's Education, and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay (阿祖莱) attended and delivered speeches.
Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛) said that this year marks the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education. Over the past 10 years, laureates from all over the world and people of insight from all walks of life have helped girls and women adapt to social development changes and achieve their own development through education. The concept of education empowering women has become increasingly popular, and millions of girls and women have the confidence and ability to choose their lives and pursue their dreams. This is the significance of the Girls' and Women's Education Award. At present, human society is ushering in an intelligent era. In this process, we must place women's science education in a more important position, help more women master scientific knowledge, learn to use new technologies, and enhance their innovation capabilities, and strive to enable the majority of women to embrace the technological revolution and create a wonderful life. China (中国) has always attached great importance to the development of women's science education and looks forward to continuously deepening cooperation with UNESCO and relevant parties to comprehensively strengthen the capacity building of women's science education and jointly improve the level of women's science education.
In her speech, Azoulay (阿祖莱) thanked the Chinese government (中国政府) for its valuable support to UNESCO and highly praised Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛) for her outstanding contributions to the development of global girls' and women's education. She said that UNESCO is willing to continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with China (中方) to promote the global girls' and women's education cause to achieve more fruitful results.
At the award ceremony, Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛) and Azoulay (阿祖莱) jointly presented awards to representatives of winning projects from Kenya (肯尼亚) and Lebanon (黎巴嫩). Representatives of the winning projects and representatives of Chinese female scientists (中国女科学家) delivered speeches respectively.
Before the award ceremony, Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛) met with Azoulay (阿祖莱), and the two exchanged views on promoting the development of global girls' and women's education. After the meeting, Peng Liyuan (彭丽媛) and Azoulay (阿祖莱) took a group photo with representatives of past award-winning projects and visited the photo exhibition of award-winning projects for the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Girls' and Women's Education Award.
Representatives of UN agencies in Beijing (北京), diplomatic envoys of relevant countries to China (中国), representatives of Chinese and foreign teachers and students, and representatives of the education community, totaling approximately 300 people, participated in the event.
Since China (中国) and UNESCO jointly established the Girls' and Women's Education Award in 2015, 20 projects from 19 countries have won the award.
Return to TopA constantly developing and growing China will always be a force for world peace, a force for stability, and a force for progress.
Whether the international order is stable is related to the foundation of world peace and development. At the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛) held recently, official representatives, experts, scholars, and observers from more than 100 countries, regions, and international organizations focused on the prominent challenges facing global security under the theme of "Jointly Safeguarding the International Order and Promoting Peace and Development," and jointly discussed cooperation plans to maintain the international order and bridge the security deficit.
"On September 3, when China held a grand military parade, I was in Senegal. At that time, the world, including Africa, widely reported on this military parade. This military parade reminded people that China made a significant contribution to the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War." Like Harold Raugh, Chairman of the International Commission of Military History, many foreign guests attending the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛) mentioned the recent commemorative activities for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War in their speeches, and expressed their admiration for China's firm commitment to maintaining world peace and development.
Remembering the great victory is to pay tribute to history, but also to draw historical inspiration and create a better future. Eighty years ago, a new international order was born from the flames of war, carrying the beautiful hopes of human society for peace and justice. Over the past 80 years, the international system with the United Nations as its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter have guaranteed the overall peace of the world and promoted the development and progress of human society. However, looking around the current world, the threats facing the post-war international order are clearly increasing. Power politics and bullying are constantly rising, undermining the international order, violating the trend of history, and threatening world peace.
The more turbulent the situation, the more we need the courage to stand at the forefront and lead cooperation. The Global Governance Initiative recently proposed by China advocates adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating people-centeredness, and focusing on action-orientedness, which is in line with the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and has important practical significance for maintaining the stability of the current international order. At the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛) venue, guests generally believed that the Global Governance Initiative will become an important cooperation platform for promoting all parties to jointly address challenges and consolidate the governance foundation for global security: "The initiative emphasizes the equality of all countries and working within the framework of the United Nations," "The Global Governance Initiative expresses the common aspirations of most countries in the world, hoping to establish a more inclusive and just international order," "Most countries in the Global South are attracted by this concept"...
Openness and inclusiveness have become a major highlight of this Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛): there are representatives from both developed countries and emerging major countries, as well as small and medium-sized countries and parties involved in conflict areas, which is particularly valuable against the background of increasingly serious global security divisions. Facing the hot issues that plague the world, the forum actively builds a dialogue platform for all parties, fully demonstrating Chinese wisdom in bridging differences through dialogue and resolving disputes through cooperation. Some international media commented that the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛) provides a "platform that cannot be ignored" for countries in the Global South, expanding dialogue channels outside of Western-dominated forums.
In recent years, China's leading and promoting role in global security governance has become increasingly prominent. These days, the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang) (全球公共安全合作论坛（连云港）) 2025 Conference, which also focuses on global security-related issues, has also attracted Chinese and foreign guests from 120 countries, regions, and international organizations. From proposing the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, to actively building dialogue and cooperation platforms such as the Beijing Xiangshan Forum (北京香山论坛), the China-Africa Peace and Security Forum (中非和平安全论坛), the Middle East Security Forum (中东安全论坛), and the China-Latin America High-Level Defense Forum (中拉高级防务论坛), to actively participating in United Nations peacekeeping operations and mediating international and regional hot issues, a series of powerful actions fully demonstrate that a constantly developing and growing China will always be a force for world peace, a force for stability, and a force for progress.
The destiny of mankind is intertwined, and only when all countries and all nations treat each other equally, live in harmony, and help each other can the root causes of war be eliminated and long-term peace and stability be achieved. Looking to the long term, China will, as always, work with the international community to seek cooperation and jointly safeguard peace, inject more stability into a turbulent world, and create more new hope for the future of mankind.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Reporter) - Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Moroccan Foreign Minister Bourita in Beijing (北京) on the 19th.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, the "gold content" of the China-Morocco strategic partnership continues to increase. President Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the global governance initiative, which has been widely welcomed and supported by the international community. China is willing to work with the international community, including Morocco, to promote the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
Bourita asked Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) to convey the cordial greetings of King Mohammed VI to President Xi Jinping (习近平), and stated that developing relations with China is Morocco's firm strategic choice. Morocco welcomes and supports the global governance initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平).
Return to TopBeijing, September 19th (People's Daily reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) met with Vanuatu's Minister of Internal Affairs Napat (纳珀特) in Beijing (北京) on the 19th.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that China is willing to work with Vanuatu, under the guidance of the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, to actively implement the Global Security Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), rely on the China-Pacific Island Countries Ministerial Dialogue Mechanism on Law Enforcement Capacity and Police Cooperation, strengthen exchanges at all levels, jointly enhance law enforcement capabilities, strengthen cooperation in combating transnational crimes and fugitive repatriation and asset recovery, and promote the deepening and consolidation of the comprehensive strategic partnership between China and Vanuatu.
Napat (纳珀特) expressed his gratitude for China's support and assistance and his willingness to deepen practical cooperation in police and law enforcement between the two countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Moscow, September 19th. At the invitation of the Russian State Duma, Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation to Russia from September 16th to 20th. During the visit, he met with Vyacheslav Volodin (沃洛金), Chairman of the Russian State Duma, Rustam Minnikhanov (明尼哈诺夫), Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, and Farid Mukhametshin (穆哈梅特申), Chairman of the State Council, and co-chaired the fourth meeting of the joint working group of the Sino-Russian Parliamentary Cooperation Committee with Alexander Babakov (巴巴科夫), Deputy Chairman of the State Duma.
Peng Qinghua (彭清华) stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, Sino-Russian relations are at their best level in history. President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the Global Governance Initiative, which has been highly praised by President Putin (普京) and all sectors of Russian society. The Chinese side is willing to work with the Russian side to take the consensus reached by the two heads of state as the fundamental guideline, further leverage the role of the joint working group platform, continuously improve the level of cooperation between legislative bodies, and help promote the high-level development of Sino-Russian relations.
The Russian side expressed its willingness to deepen strategic coordination with the Chinese side, continuously strengthen parliamentary exchanges and cooperation at all levels between the two sides, and continuously enrich the connotation of Russian-Chinese relations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th. Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the reception held by the Vietnamese Embassy in China on September 19th to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the National Day of Vietnam. Zhang Qingwei (张庆伟) and Vietnamese Ambassador to China Pham Thanh Binh (范清平) exchanged views on China-Vietnam relations in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 19th (Reporter). Wang Yong (王勇), Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), met with a delegation from the Political Research Center of the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency in Beijing (北京) on the 19th. He introduced China's (中国) economic and social development and the relevant situation of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), and expressed that the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all sectors of Indonesia (印度尼西亚), enhance mutual understanding and friendship, and jointly promote the development of bilateral relations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Baku, September 19th (Reporter Zhou Liang (周良)) Yerevan News: Armenian President Khachaturyan (哈恰图良) met with Su Hui (苏辉), Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), who was visiting Yerevan (埃里温), on the 18th.
Su Hui (苏辉) conveyed President Xi Jinping's (习近平) cordial greetings to President Khachaturyan (哈恰图良), stating that the friendly exchanges between China and Armenia have a long history. The leaders of the two countries recently announced the establishment of a strategic partnership, opening a new chapter in the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Armenia to take the establishment of a strategic partnership as an opportunity to promote deeper and more practical cooperation in various fields.
Khachaturyan (哈恰图良) asked Su Hui (苏辉) to convey his cordial greetings and best wishes to President Xi Jinping (习近平), stating that Armenia attaches great importance to the development of the strategic partnership between the two countries, actively supports the global governance initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), firmly supports the One China principle, and is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in the fields of politics, economy and trade, education, and connectivity, and to strengthen international collaboration within frameworks such as the United Nations.
Su Hui (苏辉) led a delegation from the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) on an invitation to visit Armenia. During the visit, she also met with Armenian National Assembly Speaker Simonyan (西蒙尼扬) and Vice Speaker Arshakyan (阿尔沙江).
Return to TopBeijing, September 19th (Reported by He Zhaoyu (何昭宇)) Defense Minister Dong Jun (董军) met with Mongolian Defense Minister Bat-Erdene and Lao Defense Minister Khamliang, who were in China to attend the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum, in Beijing on the 19th.
Dong Jun (董军) said that the world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, and hegemonism, unilateralism, and protectionism are 甚嚣尘上 (shèn xiāo chén shàng - "uproar dust above," to be much talked about; to be rampant). As an important region of the world and our common home, maintaining peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region is crucial. As neighbors and partners linked by mountains and rivers and sharing a common destiny, China is willing to work with neighboring countries to follow the important consensus of our leaders, adhere to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, continuously consolidate strategic mutual trust, safeguard each other's core interests, improve the quality and efficiency of defense and security cooperation, create high-quality cooperation brands, and make positive contributions to building a community with a shared future in the neighborhood.
Bat-Erdene said that Mongolia always regards permanent good-neighborliness and friendship with China and carrying out lasting mutually beneficial cooperation as a priority direction of its diplomacy, and is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in areas such as peacekeeping, border defense, and joint exercises and training to promote the in-depth development of relations between the two militaries.
Khamliang said that Laos is willing to work with China to jointly implement the important consensus of the leaders of the two parties and two countries, further deepen the fraternal friendship and pragmatic cooperation between the two militaries, and promote the continuous development and fruitful results of the Laos-China community with a shared future.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), September 19th (Reporter He Zhaoyu (何昭宇)) The 6th China-Latin America High-Level Defense Forum was held on the 19th at the Beijing International Convention Center (北京国际会议中心). The theme of this forum is "Shared Future, Win-Win Cooperation." Representatives from defense departments and militaries of 18 Latin American and Caribbean countries participated in the conference. Defense Minister Dong Jun (董军) attended the forum and delivered a keynote speech.
Dong Jun (董军) said that President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed launching the five major projects of unity, development, civilization, peace, and people-to-people bonds for building a China-Latin America community with a shared future, providing strategic guidance for the development of China-Latin America relations. China is willing to work with Latin America to take the implementation of the consensus of the leaders of both sides as the guide, take the construction of the peace project as the main line, be committed to the cause of peaceful development, adhere to the principle of equality and mutual benefit, promote the spirit of openness and inclusiveness, plan for the long-term, establish a pragmatic action orientation, and strive to build a highly mutually trusting, flexible and pragmatic, more resilient, and closer China-Latin America defense relationship, create a model of security cooperation among countries of the Global South, and make new and greater contributions to building a China-Latin America community with a shared future.
The Latin American representatives attending the meeting stated that Latin America and China, as important forces in the Global South, share a common desire for peaceful development. Latin America regards China as a trustworthy friend and partner, and looks forward to further enhancing mutual trust and friendship, deepening exchanges and cooperation with the Chinese military, and jointly writing a new chapter in Latin America-China security cooperation.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing, September 19th (Reporter Gong Ming (龚鸣)) The international seminar "New Quality Productive Forces in the Process of Modernization" was held in Beijing (北京) on the 19th. More than 200 people, including ambassadors to China, government officials, experts, scholars, business representatives, and representatives of international organizations from 37 countries and regions including China, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Turkey, conducted extensive exchanges on the theoretical exploration, policy practice, and international experience of new quality productive forces, and jointly proposed to "join hands to develop new quality productive forces and cultivate new drivers of economic growth."
The participating guests believe that China has always adhered to development as the key to solving all problems and innovation as the primary driving force for leading development. Developing new quality productive forces is an inherent requirement and important focus for promoting high-quality development, a major deployment based on the new stage of development, a key measure for implementing the new development concept, and an important guarantee for building a new development pattern, which builds a strong material and technological foundation for Chinese-style modernization.
It is reported that the seminar was guided by the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) and the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), and jointly hosted by the China Human Rights Development Foundation (中国人权发展基金会), the China Macroeconomic Research Institute (中国宏观经济研究院), and Haier Group (海尔集团).
Return to TopBerlin, September 19th (Reported by Xu Xin (徐馨) from this newspaper) Geneva News: The Permanent Mission of China to Geneva held a dialogue on accessibility for all at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on the 18th.
Chen Xu (陈旭), Representative of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland, delivered a keynote speech. Chen Xu (陈旭) introduced China's concept and practice of accessibility construction, and stated that China always places its own development within the coordinate system of human development, and actively provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for the development of the world's accessibility cause. China advocates adhering to a people-centered approach, promoting human rights through development, upholding the rule of law, and adhering to mutually beneficial cooperation to jointly promote the high-quality development of the global accessibility cause.
The dialogue also featured a video introducing the Rehabilitation University founded by China, showcasing China's pragmatic measures to promote the Healthy China strategy, and the scene of the UN Human Rights Council adopting a thematic resolution on accessibility construction.
The participating representatives positively evaluated China's achievements in the development of accessibility, praised China's leading role, and shared relevant practices in their own countries.
Return to TopBangkok, September 19th (Reported by Zhang Niansheng (章念生)) Colombo News: The Sri Lanka Athana Water Supply Project, constructed by China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation (中国机械设备工程股份有限公司), was completed and put into operation on September 18th, providing a reliable source of clean water for more than 600,000 local residents.
The project completion and commissioning ceremony was held in Gampaha, Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism, Wijitha Herath (维吉塔·赫拉特), said at the ceremony that the Athana Water Supply Project is of great significance. Sri Lanka and China have close relations, and China's assistance to Sri Lanka in the Athana water supply and other projects has further strengthened the bond between the two countries.
The Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong (戚振宏), said that the completion and commissioning of the project will not only improve local public health and people's livelihood conditions, but also inject new vitality into local economic and social development.
According to reports, the Athana Water Supply Project is equipped with a water plant with a daily processing capacity of 54,000 cubic meters, supported by efficient water intake pumps, storage tanks, and nearly 590 kilometers of pipelines, reliably delivering water to every community.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
(IV) Fully发挥妇女主体作用 (chōng fèn fā huī fù nǚ zhǔ tǐ zuò yòng - "fully leverage women's main role," to give full play to the initiative and creativity of women)
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's Comprehensive Development as a National Action
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Affairs
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
(III) Strengthening the Legal Guarantee of Women's Rights and Interests
(IV) Creating an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
III. Women Sharing the Achievements of Modernization
(I) Comprehensive Elimination of Absolute Poverty
(II) Significant Improvement in Health Status
(III) Significant Improvement in Education Level
(IV) Continuous Consolidation of Social Security
(V) A Better Family Life
IV. Promoting Women to Be at the Forefront of the Times
(I) Making Contributions in High-Quality Economic Development
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
(III) Showing Style in Cultural Prosperity and Development
(IV) Taking Responsibility in Grassroots Social Governance
(V) Contributing Practically to Ecological Civilization Construction
V. Contributing China's Strength to the Development of Global Women's Cause
(I) Participating in Global Governance in the Field of Women
(II) Deepening Cooperation and Exchanges in Women's Development
(III) Actively Responding to Global Challenges
Concluding Remarks
Foreword
Women are the pioneers of human civilization and the promoters of social progress. To achieve gender equality and the comprehensive development of women, mankind has gone through an uneven and extraordinary journey.
Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always adhered to writing the realization of women's liberation and development, and the realization of gender equality on its banner of struggle. It has always regarded the broad masses of women as an important force in promoting the development of the Party and the people's cause, and has always placed women's work in an important position, leading the broad masses of women to gain liberation, seek progress, and seek development, and has opened up a path of women's development with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会), socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has taken safeguarding women's legitimate rights and interests and promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development as an important part of Chinese-style modernization, and has made a series of pioneering, overall, and long-term major decisions and deployments for the development of women's cause. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted the first Central Party Mass Work Conference in the history of the Party, attended the National Women's Congress of China (中国妇女全国代表大会) three times in a row, and held collective talks with the new leadership of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), delivering a series of important expositions on women, children, and the work of the Women's Federation, and focusing on family education and family style construction, pointing out the direction, defining the orientation, and clarifying the principles for the development of women's cause in the new era. Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality has been written into the Communist Party of China's (中国共产党) policy program, promoting the comprehensive development of women has been included in the national development plan, the legal system for safeguarding women's rights and interests has been continuously improved, and the working pattern for the development of women's cause has been further improved. The broad masses of women are striving to be builders of a great cause, advocates of civilized customs, and strivers who dare to pursue their dreams, winning a brilliant life in participation and contribution. The development of women's cause in China in the new era has achieved historic achievements, and the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider.
The fate of women around the world is intertwined, and the development of women's cause in China is closely linked to the development of women's cause around the world. In 1995, China successfully hosted the Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations (联合国第四次世界妇女大会), and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (《北京宣言》和《行动纲领》) adopted at the conference became a milestone in the global cause of gender equality. At important occasions such as the 2015 Global Women's Summit and the 2020 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting Commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women, President Xi Jinping (习近平主席) profoundly expounded China's propositions on promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development, and proposed to convene the Global Women's Summit again in 2025. On the occasion of the convening of this summit, in order to systematically introduce the concepts, principles, and innovative practices of China in promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development in the new era, vividly demonstrate the outstanding demeanor and responsibility of Chinese women, and work with countries around the world to promote the development of global women's cause, this white paper is specially released.
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
In the process of Chinese-style modernization, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), based on its basic national conditions and in line with the trend of history, has united and led the broad masses of women to continue to struggle, and has embarked on a correct path to realize women's equal exercise of democratic rights in accordance with the law, equal participation in economic and social development, and equal enjoyment of the fruits of reform and development.
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
The leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the fundamental guarantee for the vigorous development of women's cause in China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十八次全国代表大会), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and has incorporated the promotion of gender equality and women's comprehensive development into the overall development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. "Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" has been continuously written into the reports of the 18th, 19th, and 20th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十八次、十九次、二十次全国代表大会); the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十九届四中全会) clearly proposed "adhering to and improving the system and mechanism for promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development" and "paying attention to the important role of family education and family style in grassroots social governance"; the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十九届五中全会) wrote "adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "strengthening family, family education, and family style construction" into the "Suggestions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Term Goals for 2035"; the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第十九届六中全会) wrote "paying attention to family education and family style construction, and safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children" into the Party's third historical resolution; the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党第二十届三中全会) included "improving the system for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "improving the mechanism for giving play to the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance" into the overall deployment of further comprehensively deepening reform, and women's cause is striding forward under the overall leadership of the Party.
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
Taking gender equality as a basic national policy is an innovative move of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and an important strategic decision for China to promote gender equality and women's comprehensive development. China strengthens top-level design and systematic planning, fully considers the realistic differences between men and women and the special interests of women when issuing laws, formulating policies, preparing plans, and deploying work, promotes equality between men and women in terms of rights, opportunities, and results, and safeguards women's rights and interests in accordance with the law. Vigorously cultivate a social atmosphere of respecting and caring for women, eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, break down backward ideas and outdated customs that hinder women's development, and build a more inclusive and dynamic social environment, so that the concept of gender equality truly becomes a common code of conduct and value standard for the entire society.
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
Development cannot be separated from women, and development should benefit all the people, including women. China closely integrates the course of national development and progress with the course of promoting gender equality and development, incorporates women's cause into the "five-in-one" overall layout of socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction with Chinese characteristics, incorporates women's development goals and tasks into the five-year plans for national economic and social development, and takes the level of women's development as an important yardstick for measuring the level of economic and social development, so as to realize the synchronized planning, synchronized deployment, synchronized promotion, and synchronized implementation of women's cause development and economic and social development, so that the fruits of modernization construction can benefit the broad masses of women more and more fairly, and make women's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.
(IV) Fully发挥妇女主体作用 (chōng fèn fā huī fù nǚ zhǔ tǐ zuò yòng - "fully leverage women's main role," to give full play to the initiative and creativity of women)
Women are not only a great force in promoting the progress of human civilization, but also the masters and creators of their own destiny. China adheres to the people-centered development thought, respects women's main position, and strengthens institutional guarantees, policy support, and public service supply. Carry out a series of actions to build meritorious service for women, promote the comprehensive improvement of women's quality and ability, smooth the channels for women's participation, and maximize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the broad masses of women, and maximize the realization, maintenance, and development of the vital interests of the broad masses of women. Encourage the broad masses of women to integrate their personal ideals and pursuits into the cause of the Party and the country, give play to their own advantages in various fields such as implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, realizing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and play a unique role in social life and family life, and contribute women's strength to the great cause of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
Mankind shares a common home, and the development of women around the world is closely linked. China adheres to the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, actively promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, advocates people-centeredness, pays attention to action orientation, and issues Chinese initiatives, provides Chinese solutions, and promises Chinese actions for the development of women's cause around the world. Support the United Nations (联合国) in placing women's work in a priority position, deepen practical cooperation with countries around the world in the field of women, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning, gather consensus on the pursuit of gender equality, jointly create an international environment conducive to women's development, jointly safeguard international fairness and justice, and make Chinese contributions to promoting the world towards a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's Comprehensive Development as a National Action
China takes the development of women's cause as an important part of national governance, and continuously strengthens the support and guarantee of the system and mechanism, creating an environment and conditions for women's comprehensive development.
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Affairs
A women's work mechanism has been established with the Party committee leading, the government taking the main responsibility, the Women and Children's Work Committee coordinating, the Women's Federation organization linking, multi-department cooperation, and the whole society participating, forming a work pattern of joint management, providing a solid guarantee for implementing gender equality in all fields of economic and social development and all aspects of social life.
The People's Congress strengthens legislation and supervision. The National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) has established a Social Construction Committee to undertake legislative, supervisory, and representative proposal handling work related to the protection of women's rights and interests. Attention is paid to incorporating legal projects that promote women's development and protect women's rights and interests into the legislative plans and plans of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会), and attention is paid to soliciting and adopting the opinions of the Women's Federation organizations and women in legislative and supervisory work. Listen to and deliberate on the State Council's (国务院) report on the work of combating domestic violence, and take the protection of the legitimate rights and special rights and interests of female employees as an important content in the law enforcement inspection of the Trade Union Law, and urge relevant departments to fulfill their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding women's rights and interests. The People's Congresses of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) (31个省（区、市）人民代表大会) have established social construction committees, formulated local regulations that are compatible with the superior laws, and strengthened the legal guarantee of women's rights and interests.
The People's Government effectively fulfills its main responsibility. Formulate and organize the implementation of the Outline for the Development of Women, convene women and children's work conferences, give play to the role of the Women and Children's Work Committee as a coordinating agency, and promote Party agencies, government departments, judicial organs, people's organizations, etc. to do a good job in women's work with their respective responsibilities. Improve the statistical monitoring mechanism of the Outline for the Development of Women, formulate the "Gender Statistical Monitoring System," covering more than 2,400 indicators, set up gender indicators in national population censuses, time use surveys, and other statistical surveys, carry out the fourth phase of the China Women's Social Status Survey, and monitor and evaluate the development status of women in multiple dimensions.
The People's Political Consultative Conference strengthens consultation and suggestions. The political consultative conferences at all levels perform the functions of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs, and consult on women's issues through special consultation, sectoral consultation, counterpart consultation, proposal handling consultation, and other platforms. The Women's Federation sector, as one of the 34 sectors of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协34个界别之一), conducts sectoral research and consultation on key and difficult issues in women's development such as women's fertility and health rights protection. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) conducts consultation and suggestions on topics such as promoting women's fair employment and career development, family education and family style construction, and inclusive childcare service system, helping women's development.
The Women's Federation organization gives full play to its role as a bridge and link. The All-China Women's Federation (中华全国妇女联合会) is a mass organization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) that unites women of all ethnic groups and all walks of life to strive for further liberation and development. It has established an organizational system that runs through the six levels of the state, provinces, cities, counties, townships, and villages, and covers government agencies, institutions, new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. The Women's Federation organizations at all levels actively play the role of a bridge and link between the Party and the government and the masses of women, act as a capable assistant to the Party, closely focus on the country's major development strategies, perform the functions of leading, serving, and linking, and widely carry out the "Five Actions" such as the Women's Heart to the Party Leading Action, the Women's Meritorious Service Series Action, the Family Service Women's Action, the Women's Rights Protection Warm Heart Action, and the Women's Federation Organization Strengthening and Difficulty Breaking Action, and concentrate efforts on grasping the Caring Service of Loving Mothers, the Quality Improvement and Expansion of Women's Housekeeping, Women's Vocational Skills Training, the Development of Inclusive Childcare Service System, the Deepening of the "Spring Bud Project - Dream Future" Action, and telling the story of China's Women's Development, providing tangible and accessible services for women, children, and families.
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
The national development plan clarifies the strategic tasks of women's development. The Five-Year Plan is a blueprint and action program for China's economic and social development during the planning period. When China scientifically prepares the Five-Year Plan and deploys the strategic goals of realizing modernization, it incorporates women's development goals into it. The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) (第十二个五年规划) for the first time made a special section deployment to promote women's comprehensive development, and put forward clear requirements on developing women's human resources, strengthening women's labor protection, and severely cracking down on illegal and criminal acts of violence against women. The 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) (第十三个五年规划) further strengthened the protection of women's rights and interests, and for the first time set up a special chapter to deploy tasks such as ensuring women's equal access to the rights and opportunities to study, employment, and participation in social affairs, and eliminating discrimination and prejudice against women, and proposed women's poverty alleviation goals. The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) (第十四个五年规划) continues to plan the goals of women's rights and interests in health, education, labor, political participation, social security, etc., and for the first time added a special section on "strengthening family construction," focusing on optimizing policies and services to support family development.
Special plans in related fields respond to the realistic needs of women's development. The "Healthy China 2030" Plan Outline (《“健康中国2030”规划纲要》), the Outline for Building a Strong Education Country (教育强国建设规划纲要), as well as the "14th Five-Year Plan" for Employment Promotion (《“十四五”就业促进规划》), the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Civil Affairs (《“十四五”民政事业发展规划》) and other special plans in the field of people's livelihood, specifically put forward policy measures on improving maternal and child health levels, ensuring women's equal right to education, supporting women's employment and entrepreneurship and career development, and improving the care service system for left-behind women in rural areas. The National Medium and Long-Term Talent Development Plan Outline (国家中长期人才发展规划纲要) makes arrangements for promoting a more reasonable gender structure of talent and strengthening the training and selection of female talent, and the National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline (全民科学素质行动规划纲要) makes deployments for implementing the quality improvement plan for rural women. The four phases of the National Human Rights Action Plan (国家人权行动计划) have all set up a special section on "Women's Rights and Interests," with special measures to protect women's personal, property, education, employment, health and other rights and interests.
The Women's Development Program comprehensively plans the phased goals of women's development. Since 1995, four cycles of women's development programs have been successively formulated and implemented, comprehensively deploying the main goals and strategic measures for women's development in different stages. The 2021-2030 China Women's Development Program systematically sets up 75 main goals and 93 strategic measures in eight fields: women's health, education, economy, participation in decision-making and management, social security, family construction, environment, and law. 41 party and government departments and institutions are assigned to implement them. All 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), as well as more than 300 prefectures (cities) and more than 2,000 counties (districts) across the country, have formulated women's development plans for their respective regions in light of their actual conditions. The goals and tasks of the Women's Development Program are linked to the national development plan and coordinated with special plans in different fields, connecting the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels vertically, forming a planning system to promote women's development.
(III) Strengthening the Rule of Law Guarantee for Women's Rights
Continuously improve the legal system. In the process of deeply promoting the comprehensive rule of law, the rule of law guarantee for women's rights is advanced in an integrated manner, building a legal system based on the Constitution, with the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests as the main body, including more than 100 laws and regulations. In compiling the Civil Code, the "Personality Rights Section" further clarifies the definition of sexual harassment and the responsibilities of employers, and the "Marriage and Family Section" improves the system for determining and clearing joint debts of husband and wife, and economic compensation for housework in divorce. The Criminal Law was amended to abolish the crime of patronizing child prostitutes, treating it as rape, increasing the statutory minimum sentence for the crime of indecent assault against children, increasing the punishment for the crime of buying trafficked women, and adding the crime of sexual assault by persons with care responsibilities. The Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests was revised to make more comprehensive and systematic provisions on the system and mechanism for protecting women's rights and interests. The Anti-Domestic Violence Law was formulated, clarifying the mandatory reporting, admonishment, personal safety protection order, and temporary shelter system. The Rural Land Contract Law was revised to improve the legal protection of rural women's land rights, allowing women to achieve "name on the certificate, rights under the name." The Law on Rural Collective Economic Organizations was formulated to institutionally ensure that women do not lose their membership and rights in rural collective economic organizations due to changes in marital status. The Legal Aid Law, the Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Law, the Population and Family Planning Law, and other laws all have special provisions to protect women's rights and interests. The state level and 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) have established a gender equality assessment mechanism for laws and regulations, conducting assessments of laws and regulations closely related to women's rights and interests, and promoting the implementation of the basic national policy of gender equality from the source of laws and policies. (See Special Column 1)
Strengthen law enforcement and judicial protection. Severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts that infringe upon the personal rights of women and girls in accordance with the law. Since 2013, public security organs have continuously carried out special actions to combat the crime of trafficking in women and children. In 2024, the number of cases of trafficking in women and children nationwide decreased by 95% compared to 2013. A multi-departmental cooperation and consultation mechanism for anti-domestic violence has been established, and implementation opinions on the domestic violence admonishment system and personal safety protection order system have been issued, and judicial interpretations have been issued to clarify specific measures for preventing and intervening in domestic violence and various forms of evidence for identifying domestic violence. Detailed institutional measures for preventing and handling workplace sexual harassment have been refined, and an independent cause of action for "sexual harassment damage liability disputes" has been added. Mechanisms such as mandatory reporting of cases involving infringement of minors, supervision of guardianship, prohibition from engaging in related occupations, and "one-stop" case handling and assistance have been established to strengthen the protection of the personal rights and interests of girls. Procuratorial organs at all levels have filed and handled 3,810 public interest litigation cases involving women's rights and interests. Since 2012, legal aid institutions nationwide have organized the handling of more than 4.2 million legal aid cases for women, providing free legal consultations to more than 20 million women.
Carry out legal publicity and education. Successively formulate and implement the national "Seventh Five-Year" and "Eighth Five-Year" plans for popularizing laws, taking laws and regulations protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women as important content. Strengthen legal publicity and interpretation. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) specially organized press conferences to interpret the principles and highlights of the formulation and revision of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. Carry out legal publicity activities through multiple channels and in various forms. Since 2012, the "China Popularization of Law" WeChat official account has published legal publicity articles related to the protection of women's rights and interests, with a readership of 91.36 million, and the number of participants in the annual legal knowledge quiz has reached tens of millions. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) has carried out the "Caring for Female Employees, the Law is by Your Side" legal publicity campaign for 11 consecutive years. Since 2016, women's federations at all levels across the country have organized more than 3.76 million legal publicity and legal service activities, with the participation of more than 400 million women. In 2024, courts and procuratorates nationwide, together with women's federations, held more than 4,200 special open day activities to protect the rights and interests of women and children, and released more than 3,800 typical cases. The "Women's Legal Popularization Campaign in Rural Areas" covered 86% of rural areas.
(IV) Create an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
Vigorously publicize the basic national policy of gender equality. Carry out all-round, multi-channel, and segmented publicity and education, and promote the basic national policy of gender equality in government agencies, schools, enterprises, urban and rural communities, and families. For party and government leading cadres, organize the compilation of the reader "The Implementation and Implementation of the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality" and incorporate relevant content into the party school curriculum system and teaching plan. For student groups, actively promote gender equality education in primary and secondary schools and universities, incorporate gender equality content into textbook planning, textbook management methods, and related curriculum textbook guidelines, pay attention to the balanced gender ratio of characters in textbook illustrations, select excellent female writers' works for text selection cases, and eliminate gender stereotypes. For the general public, incorporate the basic national policy of gender equality into the construction of spiritual civilization in urban and rural communities, into village rules and regulations and residents' conventions, and into family education and family style construction. Party members, cadres, experts, scholars, and women workers jointly carry out publicity, and through popular publicity and education activities, let citizens understand and practice the national policy. (See Special Column 2)
Strengthen equality awareness in the media field. The Advertising Law and other relevant laws, as well as the China Women's Development Program, stipulate gender equality assessment and supervision in the media field, and strictly prohibit the appearance of phenomena that belittle, deny, or infringe upon women's personality in media reports or advertisements. Pay attention to the gender equality review of the content of film and television literary works, and incorporate relevant requirements into the links of script argumentation, film review, production and distribution. News media publish prohibited and cautious words in news information reports to eliminate uncivilized language that discriminates against gender. Implement the media social responsibility reporting system, and take "protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, and paying attention to protecting their physical and mental health" as the code of professional ethics for media personnel. Strengthen the publicity of advanced female models, and vigorously publicize the patriotic feelings of women in the new era who love the motherland and dedicate themselves to the people, the spirit of self-improvement and hard work, and the noble sentiments of being positive, enterprising, and advocating virtue and kindness through special reports, publicity releases, and organizing reports on advanced deeds, so that the concept of gender equality is vigorously advocated throughout society.
Focus on creating a clear and bright cyberspace. Issue judicial interpretations, release guiding cases, and carry out special actions to severely crack down on crimes such as fraud, trafficking, and rape against women and children committed through the Internet, and severely punish illegal acts that infringe upon personal information, create rumors, and make malicious comments that infringe upon women's personality rights. Strengthen platform responsibility, centrally dispose of illegal and bad information, and remove articles and short videos that promote the concept of valuing boys over girls and deliberately exaggerate family conflicts. Strengthen the supply of high-quality online content, carry out special theme publicity, and launch a number of new media products that showcase the style of women in the new era and reflect family and country feelings, such as the theme song "Flowers Bloom in China" (花开中国) for women in the new era, the image film "Together" (在一起) of the Women's Federation organization, and the family image promotional film "I Love My Family" (我爱我家), which are widely disseminated among women and hundreds of millions of families, and the ideological and political leadership of women presents a new atmosphere. Improve the digital literacy of the whole people, cultivate good Chinese netizens among women, tell the stories of China and Chinese women well, sing the main theme, and gather positive energy online.
3. Women Share the Fruits of Modernization
Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihoods, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. China continues to work hard on ensuring that children are cared for, have access to education, have jobs, have medical care, have elderly care, have housing, and have assistance when weak, and continuously realizes the vast number of women's aspirations for a better life.
(I) Absolute Poverty is Completely Eliminated
China organized and implemented the largest, most intensive, and most beneficial poverty alleviation battle in human history, completely eliminating absolute poverty by the end of 2020, achieving the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda 10 years ahead of schedule. In the magnificent course of poverty reduction, China fulfilled its solemn commitment that "no one should be left behind" on the road to poverty alleviation, and took women as the key poverty alleviation target, and the road to women's prosperity is getting wider and wider.
Targeted poverty alleviation effectively guarantees basic living. Implement the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation, establish files and cards for the poor population, find out the distribution of the poor population, the causes of poverty, the types of poverty, and the needs for poverty alleviation, and achieve "six precisions" in supporting objects, project arrangements, fund use, measures to households, sending people to villages, and poverty alleviation results, so that women, who account for about half of the poor population, have obtained precise resource allocation. Implement the health poverty alleviation project, carry out special health promotion actions, and ensure that rural poor women enjoy basic medical and health services. Implement the education poverty alleviation campaign, steadily improve the quality of compulsory education in poor areas, and ensure that school-age girls from poor families do not drop out of school due to poverty. Strengthen social security bottom-lining, and include women who meet the conditions in the registered poor population into the minimum living security and special hardship assistance. Implement the renovation of dilapidated rural houses, and provide subsidies for the renovation of dilapidated houses in deeply impoverished areas; implement relocation for poverty alleviation, which has solved the problem of poverty alleviation and development for more than 9.6 million poor people living in areas where "one side of the land cannot support one side of the people." Poor women have steadily achieved the "two no worries and three guarantees" of not worrying about food and clothing and having guarantees for compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety. After winning the battle against poverty in an all-round way, a 5-year transition period was established to "help and support" the poverty-stricken areas and the poverty-stricken population. On the basis of the overall stability of the assistance policies, a sound dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing the return to poverty was established to continuously support the development of production, expansion of employment, and increase of income for women who have been lifted out of poverty and rural low-income women.
Developing production helps women's employment and income increase. Adhere to the policy of development-oriented poverty alleviation and empower poor women to develop. Strengthen industrial support, promote the gradient transfer of labor-intensive industries such as food processing and garment manufacturing, and industrial assistance policies cover 98.9% of poor households. Through labor cooperation between the east and west, the establishment of poverty alleviation workshops, and the development of rural public welfare positions, work opportunities are provided for poor women with labor ability and willingness; encourage and support the development of new formats and new industries such as e-commerce poverty alleviation, photovoltaic poverty alleviation, and tourism poverty alleviation to help poor women achieve employment at their doorsteps; develop the handicraft weaving industry in ethnic areas, and transform "Miao embroidery" (苗绣), "Yi embroidery" (彝绣) and other order-based handicraft weaving from "fingertip skills" to "fingertip economy." Strengthen financial and financial support. During the poverty alleviation period, special policies were introduced to provide interest-subsidized loans without mortgage or guarantee, tax and fee reductions, and other support. A total of more than 450 billion yuan of small-amount guaranteed loans and small-amount poverty alleviation loans were issued to women, and 8.7 million women achieved entrepreneurial income increase; from 2021 to 2024, 1.928 million women continued to receive 76.83 billion yuan of small-amount credit for poverty alleviation. Strengthen capacity training, carry out multi-channel, multi-level, and multi-form vocational skills training, entrepreneurship training, and agricultural practical technology training. As of 2020, a total of 10.21 million poor women and women cadres have received various types of skills training; from 2023 to 2024, the "Rain and Dew Program" (雨露计划) subsidized a total of 632,000 women to receive vocational education, and the endogenous driving force for women's development continued to be stimulated. (See Special Column 3)
Increase investment to break the bottleneck of women's development. Increase the intensity of infrastructure construction to fundamentally solve the problems of difficulty in travel, electricity use, water use, and communication that restrict the development of women in poor areas. Achieve the goal of hardening roads, buses, and postal routes in all qualified townships and established villages, basically achieve full coverage of stable and reliable power supply services in rural areas, and fully achieve the goal of connecting counties to gigabit, townships to 5G, and villages to broadband. As of the end of 2024, the popularization rate of tap water in rural areas nationwide reached 94%. (See Special Column 4)
(II) Health Status Significantly Improved
China puts safeguarding people's health in a strategic position of priority development, comprehensively promotes the construction of a healthy China, takes the health of women and children as the cornerstone of national health, consolidates and improves the system, optimizes the allocation of resources, and provides women with health services throughout their life cycle.
The maternal and child health service system continues to improve. Embed the maternal and child health service network into the medical and health care network covering 1.4 billion people, and build a maternal and child health service system with maternal and child health care institutions as the core, primary medical and health institutions as the foundation, and large and medium-sized hospitals and scientific research institutions as the support. From 2012 to 2023, the number of health technicians in maternal and child health care institutions increased from 277,000 to 537,000, with an average annual growth rate of more than 6%; the actual number of beds increased from 187,000 to 295,000, an increase of nearly 60%. At present, there are 3,081 maternal and child health care institutions, 3,491 critical maternal rescue centers, and 3,221 critical newborn rescue centers nationwide, and more than 2,600 secondary and above traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have set up gynecology departments. Develop the "Internet + Maternal and Child Health" service model. 31 provincial-level "Cloud Maternal and Child" telemedicine platforms carry out training and guidance on the treatment of critically ill pregnant women, and the equalization level of maternal and child health services has been significantly improved. (See Special Column 5)
Breakthroughs in key women's health issues. Strengthen resource coordination and incorporate the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS, syphilis, and hepatitis B into major public health service projects. In 2024, the mother-to-child transmission rate of AIDS dropped to 1.2%, which has reached the target requirement for eliminating mother-to-child transmission. In-depth promotion of comprehensive prevention and treatment of cervical cancer and breast cancer. From 2009 to 2024, 342 million people were screened for cervical cancer and 245 million people were screened for breast cancer free of charge; from 2012 to 2024, the central government invested 3.01 billion yuan to rescue sick women. As of June 2025, 18 provinces have provided free vaccination for school-age girls by including the vaccination of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into government livelihood facts, benefiting about 5 million girls every year. Around the entire chain of fertility and the entire life cycle of women, a group of women's health characteristic specialist groups and outpatient groups will be built. Carry out reproductive health promotion actions. As of the end of 2024, a total of tens of thousands of primary and secondary schools and more than 1,000 universities across the country have carried out youth health education services. Implement the National Health Literacy Improvement Action, Healthy Family Construction, and the "Healthy China, Mother Action" to guide women to lead family members and the whole society to improve health awareness and health management capabilities.
Women's health has been greatly improved. In 2020, the average life expectancy of women has increased to 80.9 years. Since 2012, the national hospitalization delivery rate has remained stable at more than 99%, the systematic management rate of pregnant women reached 94.9% in 2024, and the maternal mortality rate dropped from 61.9/100,000 in 1995 to 14.3/100,000 in 2024, a decrease of 76.9%, which is far lower than the world average. China's core maternal and child health indicators (maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, under-5 mortality rate) rank among the top middle- and high-income countries in the world, achieving the relevant goals of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda ahead of schedule, and are listed by the World Health Organization as one of the 10 countries with high performance in maternal and child health. (See Figure 1 and Figure 2)
(III) Education Level Significantly Improved
In the construction of a strong education country and the integrated reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanism, China vigorously promotes women's equal access to education of all types at all levels, continuously improves women's scientific literacy, and accelerates the promotion of women's lifelong education, and women's right to education is effectively guaranteed.
Basic gender disparities in education have been largely eliminated. With the continuous implementation of four "Preschool Education Action Plans," in 2024, there were 16.9414 million girls in kindergartens nationwide, accounting for 47.3%. Efforts have been made to promote high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, accelerate the reduction of educational disparities between regions, urban and rural areas, schools, and groups. The net enrollment rate of primary school-age girls has remained above 99.9%, and in 2024, girls accounted for 46.98% of students in the nine-year compulsory education stage. With the implementation of the Senior Secondary Education Universalization Plan (2017-2020) and the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development and Improvement of Ordinary High Schools in Counties, the proportion of women receiving senior secondary education has continued to increase. In 2024, girls accounted for 49.3% of students in ordinary high schools. (See Special Column 6)
The gender ratio in higher education is basically balanced. The country continues to advance the construction of the world's largest higher education system, consolidate and improve the popularization level of higher education, and ensure gender equality in the enrollment of ordinary institutions of higher learning through policy regulations. In 2024, women accounted for 50.76% of students in higher education, an increase of 14.15 percentage points compared to 1995. Among them, female graduate students accounted for 50.01%, an increase of 22.43 percentage points compared to 1995. (See Figure 3)
Women enjoy higher quality vocational and lifelong education. The establishment of a modern vocational education system is being accelerated. In accordance with regulations, financial aid policies such as tuition waivers, scholarships (grants), and student loans are provided to eligible students from families with financial difficulties. The level of vocational education received by women continues to improve. In 2024, girls accounted for 47.9% of students in higher vocational education colleges and universities and 45.2% of students in secondary vocational education schools. The lifelong learning system for women is becoming more open and flexible. The "National Lifelong Education Smart Education Platform" has been established to provide more convenient and accessible channels to meet the diverse learning needs of women. The number of women participating in adult education has been increasing year by year. In 2024, there were 5.133 million female students in adult undergraduate and associate degree programs, accounting for 54%, an increase of 1.963 million compared to 2012. In 2020, the average years of education for women aged 15 and above nationwide reached 9.59 years.
Women's scientific literacy is gradually improving. The "National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline (2021-2035)" was promulgated, incorporating the improvement of women's scientific literacy into it. The "Guidelines for Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" was issued to optimize primary and secondary school curriculum materials, experimental teaching, teacher training, and practical activities, and to strengthen the connection and transformation of science education resources. Public welfare projects such as "Science Has Her - Girls Love Science," "Technology Empowers Girls," "Spring Bud Technology Girls," "Exploring the Future Technology Women Training Program," and "Female Scientist Growth Program" have been implemented to stimulate and cultivate female students' interest in science. The Women Workers' Quality Improvement Project has been implemented to help female workers improve their digital skills. The gender gap in scientific literacy continues to narrow. The scale of the female science and technology talent pool is gradually expanding, the structure is continuously optimized, and the capabilities are significantly improved. Outstanding contributions have been made in various aspects such as basic theory, applied technology, and engineering practice. In 2024, women accounted for 2.846 million research and experimental development (R&D) personnel, an increase of 1.692 million compared to 2012. (See Special Column 7)
(IV) Social Security is Continuously Consolidated
China has built the world's largest social security system, gradually narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas on the basis of "ensuring that everyone is covered," continuously improving social security policies for key groups, increasing assistance to women in difficulty, steadily improving treatment levels, and ensuring that women enjoy more adequate, reliable, and equitable social security.
The medical and pension insurance systems have achieved full coverage. The medical security system is continuously improved, and the financial subsidy standards for participation in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents are increased. In 2024, 651 million women participated in basic medical insurance, accounting for 49.1% of the total number of participants; 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents, accounting for 48% of the total number of participants; and 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban employees, accounting for 48.2% of the total number of participants.
More women receive unemployment and work-related injury protection. Attention is paid to protecting the employment, safety, and health of employees. As of the end of 2024, approximately 105 million women participated in unemployment insurance, 1.7 times that of 2012, accounting for 42.7% of the total number of participants; approximately 117 million women participated in work-related injury insurance, 1.6 times that of 2012, accounting for 38.6% of the total number of participants. Specific measures have been formulated to further ensure that new employment form personnel receive effective assistance and compensation after occupational injuries occur. The direct settlement of work-related injury insurance for cross-provincial medical treatment has been fully carried out to protect the rights and interests of female employees injured at work and to meet medical needs to a greater extent.
The level of maternity protection for women has been significantly improved. The comprehensive promotion of the merger of maternity insurance and employee medical insurance has been implemented, the participation of employers in maternity insurance has been continuously promoted, the coverage of maternity insurance has been gradually expanded, and local areas with conditions have been guided to include flexible employment personnel in the coverage of maternity insurance. During the period when unemployed persons receive unemployment insurance benefits, maternity insurance premiums are paid by the unemployment insurance fund on their behalf, and unemployed women enjoy maternity medical treatment by participating in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents. As of the end of 2024, the number of women participating in maternity insurance reached 111 million. 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) have included appropriate assisted reproductive projects in medical insurance. (See Figure 4)
The bottom line of protection for women in difficulty has been further strengthened. The minimum living security standards have been continuously improved. In 2024, the national average standards for urban and rural minimum living security were 2.4 times and 3.4 times those of 2012, respectively. Subsidies or premium payments are provided to women included in the minimum living security recipients and extremely poor people for participating in basic medical and pension insurance for urban and rural residents. A comprehensive system of living allowances for people with disabilities in difficulty and nursing allowances for people with severe disabilities has been established. In 2024, 9.395 million women enjoyed the two types of disability subsidies, accounting for 46% of the number of people enjoying the two types of subsidies. Actions have been taken to provide accurate care and assistance to rural left-behind women in difficulty, including conducting surveys and establishing files, ensuring basic living conditions, promoting employment and income increase, and enriching spiritual life.
(V) Family Life is More Beautiful
China attaches importance to family building, family education, and family traditions, and emphasizes the unique role of women in social and family life, in promoting the traditional Chinese family virtues, and in establishing good family traditions. It continuously improves policies to support family development, enhances family development capabilities, and creates positive and favorable conditions for women to enjoy a more beautiful family life.
Family relationships in the new era are more equal and harmonious. Laws and regulations such as the Civil Code, the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law have been promulgated to protect women's marital and family rights and interests. New types of marriage and childbearing culture are actively cultivated. Marriage registration authorities at the county level and above across the country generally carry out marriage and family counseling services. More than 2,000 experimental units promote marriage custom reforms, and the "New Marriage and Childbearing Customs Entering Thousands of Homes" campaign is continuously carried out to advocate values such as gender equality, mutual respect, and co-parenting. The Fourth China Women's Social Status Survey shows that 90% of wives participate in major family decision-making, an increase of approximately 15 percentage points compared to 2010. The gap in housework time between the two sexes has narrowed, and people are more inclined to respect each other and trust each other in marital relationships.
A family-friendly society is gradually being established. To adapt to high-quality population development and family development needs, a number of measures have been introduced to accelerate the improvement of the fertility support policy system and promote the construction of a fertility-friendly society. The maternity leave system has been improved, and local regulations have been generally issued in various places to extend maternity leave and male paternity leave, and to add parental childcare leave. The implementation of special additional deductions for individual income tax for childcare for infants and young children under 3 years old, elderly care, and children's education. A childcare subsidy system has been established and implemented, and free preschool education is gradually being promoted. Employers are encouraged to build "family-friendly workplaces" and to negotiate with employees to adopt flexible working hours, telecommuting, and other flexible working methods to help employees balance career development and childcare, and to provide maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, 403,000 enterprises and institutions with established trade unions across the country have established female employee rest and lactation rooms. The allocation of maternal and infant facilities in public places has been strengthened. The "Unified Standard for the Design of Civil Buildings," the "Design Standard for Office Buildings," and the "Design Code for Railway Passenger Station Buildings" all put forward requirements for the setting of maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were 1,449 maternal and infant rooms built in railway stations across the country, 5,371 maternal and infant rooms built in highway service areas (including parking areas) across the country, 286 maternal and infant rooms built in passenger ships and port passenger stations in various places, all transportation airports with an annual passenger throughput of more than 5,000 passengers are equipped with maternal and infant rooms, 2,308 maternal and infant rooms are built in secondary and above automobile passenger stations across the country, and 2,599 maternal and infant rooms are built in urban rail transit stations. (See Special Column 8)
Services to reduce the burden of family care are more diverse. Provide families with various forms of childcare services such as full-day care, half-day care, and temporary care, and support employers to run childcare facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were 5.737 million childcare slots nationwide, with 4.08 childcare slots for infants and young children under 3 years old per thousand people. A family education guidance service system covering urban and rural areas has been built, relying on more than 400,000 parent schools and more than 20,000 online new media platforms in urban and rural communities, giving play to the role of family education guidance service teams, organizing and carrying out colorful family parent-child activities, and sending scientific family education guidance services to homes and to the people. The supply pattern of elderly care services based on home, relying on communities, supported by institutions, and combining medical care and elderly care has been optimized. Services such as elderly meal assistance, bathing assistance, age-appropriate transformation, and barrier-free transformation of homes for people with disabilities in difficulty are more convenient and accessible. The quality and capacity expansion of the domestic service industry has been continuously promoted. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately 600,000 domestic service industry business entities and 16,000 "Jinguan" domestic service community service stations. The National Jinguan Domestic Service Vocational Skills Competition was held to encourage domestic service practitioners to improve their skills, build a growth platform for more relevant practitioners, and provide high-quality services for the majority of families. (See Special Column 9)
IV. Promoting Women to Walk at the Forefront of the Times
On the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, everyone is the protagonist. Chinese women consciously link their own future and destiny closely with the future and destiny of the country and the nation, actively devote themselves to the construction of a strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern power, make contributions to the new era with action, and create a better life with struggle.
(I) Making Contributions to High-Quality Economic Development
China expands channels for women's participation, improves their participation ability, and stimulates their creativity in promoting high-quality economic development. The role of the vast number of women as "half the sky" is fully demonstrated.
Demonstrating value in employment and entrepreneurship. Adhering to the employment-first strategy, increasing financial investment, implementing the Women's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Action and the Women's Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Action, setting up women's recruitment special zones and holding special sessions in the "National Recruitment Action" and "Spring Breeze Action" to promote the expansion of women's employment scale and improve quality. Incorporating gender discrimination in employment into the scope of labor security supervision, formulating the "Special Labor Protection System for Female Employees in the Workplace (Reference Text)" and the "System for Eliminating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Reference Text)," guiding employers to improve the special labor protection system for female employees in the workplace and the system for eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, and effectively protecting the legitimate rights and interests of female employees. As of the end of 2024, 640 billion yuan in loans have been provided to support 8.49 million women in realizing their entrepreneurial dreams. Since 2012, women have accounted for about 43% of the employed population. The Fifth National Economic Census data shows that women account for 42.6% of employees in government agencies, public institutions, and state-owned holding enterprises, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared to the Fourth National Economic Census. The vast number of women strive for excellence. Women account for 34% of national "moral models," and 30.9% of "the most beautiful people" and "national teaching and educating models." 1,821 women have been awarded the title of National Model Worker and Advanced Worker, 1,957 women have been awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal, 5,001 women have been awarded the National March 8th Red Banner Bearer title, and 6,489 women have been awarded the National Jinguan Construction Pioneer title. (See Special Column 10)
Striving for the lead in scientific and technological innovation. Implementing the Women's Scientific and Technological Innovation Action, formulating the "Several Measures on Supporting Female Scientific and Technological Talents to Play a Greater Role in Scientific and Technological Innovation," and proposing 16 specific measures to support female scientific and technological talents to undertake national science and technology plan projects, participate in scientific and technological decision-making, and improve the evaluation and incentive mechanism for female scientific and technological talents. The age limit for female applicants for the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Scientists Project A, B, and C categories is appropriately relaxed, extending by 3 years, 2 years, and 5 years, respectively, compared to male applicants. Relying on platforms such as the Zhongguancun Forum (中关村论坛), the Pujiang Innovation Forum (浦江创新论坛), and the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, setting up science and technology women's summits and forums, and continuously holding Jinguan Craftsman Forums and high-level female science and technology talent training courses to build a platform for female science and technology talents to exchange learning, transform achievements, and serve society. Women account for 45.8% of scientific and technological workers. They are gnawing at "hard bones" and breaking through "bottleneck" problems in the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, concentrating on tackling key problems and bravely climbing to the peak, making important contributions to promoting the construction of a strong science and technology country and accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. (See Special Column 11)
Standing at the forefront in rural revitalization. Implementing the Rural Revitalization Women's Action, strengthening the training and empowerment of female farmers. Since 2017, the "High-Quality Farmer Training Program" has trained 2.241 million female farmers; from 2022 to 2024, the "Leading Goose" project for cultivating leaders in rural industrial revitalization trained 12,000 women. The vast number of women are showing their talents in rural revitalization. Women account for 100 of the first batch of rural craftsmen masters identified by the "Double Hundred Double Thousand" Cultivation Project for Rural Craftsmen, accounting for 36.6%; in the finals of the first National Farmers Skills Competition, women accounted for 69.5% of the award-winning athletes; as of the end of 2024, there were 134,000 female agricultural technology extension workers with technical titles, accounting for 35.4%. (See Special Column 12)
Shining in the digital economy. The Outline for Improving National Digital Literacy and Skills Action and the Digital Village Development Action Plan were promulgated, proposing measures such as carrying out digital literacy education and skills training for women and developing Jinguan e-commerce brands. The vast number of women are adapting to the requirements of the digital age and actively participating in the development of the digital economy. In 2024, a total of 14,147 women obtained artificial intelligence trainer vocational skill level certificates, accounting for 42.3%. Women account for more than half of entrepreneurs in the Internet field. Women account for about one-third of employees in new business forms such as digital trade, e-commerce, and live broadcasting, and the gender dividend of the digital economy is continuously released. (See Special Column 13)
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
China attaches importance to improving women's participation in the management of national, economic, cultural, and social affairs in the process of promoting whole-process people's democracy. Women enjoy equal political rights, actively participate in democratic practice, and actively contribute women's strength.
Exercising state power through the National People's Congress. The proportion of female representatives in the National People's Congress is continuously increasing. In 2023, there were 790 female representatives in the 14th National People's Congress, accounting for 26.5%, an increase of 3.1 and 1.6 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th National People's Congresses, respectively; the proportion of female representatives in the National People's Congress at the county and township levels was 31.64% and 32.36%, respectively. Female representatives of the National People's Congress perform their duties in accordance with the law, listen to and reflect the opinions and suggestions of women and all parties. From 2018 to 2025, female representatives of the National People's Congress put forward a total of 29,328 suggestions, criticisms, and opinions, accounting for 42.3% of the total number of suggestions. (See Special Column 14)
Offering policy advice and suggestions at various consultative conferences of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The proportion of female members in the CPPCC National Committee and local committees is on the rise. In 2023, there were 487 female members in the 14th CPPCC National Committee, accounting for 22.4%, an increase of 4.6 and 2 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th committees, respectively. There were 5,401 female members in provincial CPPCCs nationwide, accounting for 27.36% of the total number of provincial CPPCC members. Female CPPCC members conscientiously perform their duties and play an important role in political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs. Since the 14th session, female members of the CPPCC National Committee have submitted 4,282 proposals, accounting for 26.6% of the total number of proposals.
Actively participating in decision-making and management. Importance is attached to training and selecting female cadres and developing female party members. The Outline for the Construction of National Party and Government Leading Bodies and the Program for the Development of Chinese Women have been formulated and implemented, putting forward quantitative and proportional requirements for the allocation of female cadres and female principal positions, so as to achieve full allocation on the premise of ensuring quality. The proportion of female party members in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and party congress representatives is gradually increasing. In 2024, female party members accounted for 30.9%, an increase of 7.1 percentage points compared with 2012. Female party members accounted for 27% of the delegates to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012. Female judges account for 42.3% of the total number of judges in the country, female prosecutors account for 43.78% of the total number of prosecutors in the country, and female jurors account for 51.5% of the total number of jurors in the country.
Extensively participating in grassroots democratic construction. In the work of village committee elections, vigorous measures are taken to increase the proportion of women in village committee members. In 2022, women accounted for 26.1% of village committee members, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with 2012; women accounted for 54.3% of neighborhood committee members, an increase of 5.5 percentage points compared with 2012. Female employees actively participate in the democratic management of enterprises. In 2023, female employee directors accounted for 37.7% of employee directors in enterprise boards of directors, an increase of 11.4 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee supervisors accounted for 41.9% of employee supervisors in enterprise supervisory boards, an increase of 14.9 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee representatives accounted for 34.2% of employee representative congresses, an increase of 4.4 percentage points compared with 2012. 431,000 women's councils have been established in urban and rural communities to extensively consult on public affairs involving women's vital interests.
(III) Showing Style in Cultural Prosperity and Development
In promoting the construction of a strong socialist cultural country, China pays attention to giving play to the important role of women in creating spiritual wealth, vigorously cultivates female cultural talents, and the vast number of women actively play a cultural innovation and creativity role in inheriting cultural genes and continuing the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Bursting with vitality on the front line of spiritual and cultural communication. The vast number of women have become an important force in cultural prosperity and development, and are playing an increasingly important role in cultural creation, cultural communication, and cultural research. Female artists have created a large number of excellent works, including Peking Opera "Mother," ballet "Yimeng," essay collection "My Altay," TV series "When Flowers Bloom," film "Beautiful Life," documentary "Aunt Haiyun," variety shows "Flowers Bloom" and "Riding the Wind 2024," and short drama "The World of Aunts," which vividly shape the artistic works of women in the new era. By the end of 2023, there were 456,900 female employees in radio, television, and online audio-visual industries nationwide, accounting for 43.14%. In the 2024 senior professional title evaluation for the news series organized by the National Press and Publication Administration, women accounted for 44.1% of those who were awarded the title of senior professional, and women accounted for 50.6% of those who were awarded the title of deputy senior professional. Women account for 27.5% of the relevant key talent projects in the field of publicity and ideology and culture, of which women account for 45.2% of the selected personnel in the National Cultural Elites Project and women account for 42.5% of the selected personnel in the Young Cultural Elites Project. The vast number of women vigorously spread and practice the core socialist values.
Showing advantages in the "living" inheritance of national culture. Women inject new vitality into national culture through skills inheritance, cultural innovation, and communication. Women account for 25% of the 3,997 national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage recognized by the state. 51,000 trainees have been trained in the "Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Group Training Program," of which women account for 57%. Special projects such as the Chinese Traditional Craft Revitalization Plan and Intangible Cultural Heritage to Help Rural Revitalization have been carried out. A large number of female leaders have transformed local natural resources and local cultural resources into cultural products and cultural industries. Guizhou's "Dove Flower·Songtao Miao Embroidery" (鸽子花·松桃苗绣) and Qinghai's "Weiyuan Tu Embroidery" and other handicraft brands have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. New business formats such as "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Homestay," "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Cultural Creation," and "Intangible Cultural Heritage + Study Tour" have been launched one after another. National traditional culture has bred new vitality in the hands of women. Digital technology empowers traditional culture to rejuvenate. More and more young women have become the backbone of the "national trend" and the "living" inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, so that intangible cultural heritage can be integrated into contemporary life and go to the world in a new posture. (See Column 15)
Shining brightly in competitive sports and mass sports activities. The Outline for Building a Sports Power clearly proposes the goal of achieving balanced development of men's and women's projects. The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee (北京冬奥组委) released the "Commitment to Promoting Gender Equality" in 2022, making 14 commitments in terms of equal participation, equal and fair publicity, and promoting gender equality in leadership positions and staff. The number of Chinese female athletes is growing rapidly, and the proportion of international-level female athletes has remained above 50%. Since 2012, the proportion of female participants in the four Summer Olympic Games has exceeded 55%, and the proportion of female medal winners has exceeded 60%; the proportion of female participants in the four Summer Paralympic Games has accounted for 50.22%, and the proportion of female medal winners has accounted for 55.62%. Female athletes fight for the country, unite and cooperate, and challenge the limits, supporting the "half of the sky" of competitive sports. The spirit of the women's volleyball team has become a powerful spiritual force to inspire generations of Chinese people. Mass fitness activities are widely carried out. The "Ten Thousand Villages Female Social Sports Instructor Training Program" has trained more than 65,000 rural female social sports instructors. As of the end of 2024, there were approximately 3.71 million social sports instructors nationwide, of which women accounted for 56.1%, demonstrating women's responsibility in developing the national fitness cause in the new era.
(IV) Taking Responsibility in Grassroots Social Governance
In building a grassroots social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, China pays attention to giving play to the role of women and women's organizations, expanding channels for women to participate in grassroots governance in an orderly manner, and ensuring that women manage grassroots public affairs and public welfare undertakings in accordance with the law. The vast number of women actively take responsibility and become an important force in grassroots governance.
Actively giving play to the role of family, family education, and family style construction in grassroots governance. Improve mechanisms for family civilization construction, collaborative education between families, schools, and communities, effective supply of family services, and resolution of marriage and family conflicts and disputes, so as to provide guarantees for women to lead family members to jointly build and share a safe and harmonious society. Deepen family civilization construction, carry out activities to find the "most beautiful families," continue to create civilized families, select five-good families, and carry out a series of activities to cultivate a good family style, such as "showing family rules and family mottoes" (家规家训亮家风), "passing on family style through family letters" (家书家信传家风), and "family style of scientists and educators," so as to vigorously promote the new socialist family civilization fashion of loving the country and the family, loving each other, being upward and kind, and co-building and sharing. A total of 1,597 national civilized families have been created, 6,258 national five-good families have been selected, 16.48 million various "most beautiful families" have emerged, and more than 500,000 family education and family style tour exhibitions have been organized, covering 250 million people. (See Column 16)
Extensively participating in the construction of safe and harmonious communities. Women actively participate in comprehensive social management and help resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level. All localities actively explore the "Women's Federation +" mediation model. As of the end of 2024, the Women's Federation has led the establishment of 3,690 people's mediation committees for marriage and family disputes above the county level, promoted the entry of marriage mediation organizations into comprehensive management centers, litigation service centers, and community police offices, and established marriage mediation studios in villages (communities). Since 2016, nearly 1.36 million cases have been mediated. In 2023, 295 of the 999 national model people's mediators commended by the Ministry of Justice were women, accounting for 29.5%. Women actively participate in security patrols and supervision and inspection. Since its establishment in 2017, the "Jiangdong Dama" (江东大妈) working team in Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu has participated in a total of 5,000 hours of voluntary patrols and participated in more than 1,000 various public welfare activities. The "Xicheng Dama" (西城大妈) in Beijing and the "Jingguo Civil Affairs Officers" in Weinan City, Shaanxi, promptly discover and report hidden dangers in social governance and become the outposts for resolving grassroots conflicts. The vast number of women are active in community workers, grid members, and building chiefs, playing an important role in building safe and harmonious communities. (See Column 17)
Enthusiastically participating in volunteer services and other social public welfare undertakings. Importance is attached to guiding and supporting the healthy development of volunteer services, social organizations, etc., and the vast number of women actively participate. In 2024, there will be 24 million registered women volunteers and 350,000 women volunteer service teams nationwide, carrying out nearly one million women volunteer service activities. The service fields cover the 17 goal fields of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, playing an important role in supporting national strategies, guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods, and strengthening social governance. The number of women participating in social organizations has increased. In 2023, the proportion of women among employees and heads of social organizations was 42.3% and 26.3% respectively, an increase of 13.3 and 4.9 percentage points respectively compared with 2012. (See Column 18)
(V) Making Practical Contributions in Ecological Civilization Construction
China firmly establishes and practices the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山) (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green water lush mountain are gold mountain silver mountain," ecological environment is invaluable), unswervingly follows the path of ecological priority and green development, and builds a modern country where man and nature coexist in harmony. The vast number of women continue to improve their awareness and ability to participate in ecological and environmental protection and play an important role in building a beautiful China.
Promoting the protection and restoration of ecosystems. We will coordinate the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and strive to build a large pattern of protection and management from the top of the mountain to the ocean. The vast number of women actively participate in the protection and restoration of ecosystems. In the Sanjiangyuan National Park (三江源国家公园) with an area of 190,700 square kilometers, more than 17,000 ecological rangers are on duty day and night, of which women account for 33.3%. The "Tree Planting Women's Army" in Changjiang Li Autonomous County, Hainan, has continued to explore and repeatedly experiment for more than 30 years, planting more than 6 million trees of nearly 30,000 mu of coastal defense forests in the desert. The Shaanxi Women's Militia Sand Control Company has controlled 14,000 mu of desert areas for more than 50 years, turning the once barren and uninhabited desert into a desert oasis with "forests forming nets and trees forming rows." The "Red Vest" Women's Volunteer Service Team in Helan County, Ningxia, carries out river protection, beach protection, and bird protection actions all year round. Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, continues to carry out the "Yangtze River Protection" Women's Action. Women's perseverance and wisdom are demonstrated in all aspects of increasing green and protecting forests, preventing and controlling desertification, protecting rivers, and protecting biodiversity. (See Column 19)
Helping the green transformation of production methods. China regards green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems and strives to build a green, low-carbon, and circular economic system. The vast number of women actively participate in the practice of promoting the green development of industry, transforming agricultural production methods, and improving the greening level of the service industry. In 2024, the number of enterprises invested in by women entrepreneurs in the national green economy field reached 445,000, accounting for 27.4%, covering subdivided markets such as clean energy, organic agriculture, and ecological protection. By scientifically managing the use of fertilizers and pesticides and innovating ecological planting models, we will help save and conserve agricultural resources, protect and manage the ecological environment of agricultural production areas, and supply green and high-quality agricultural products, so as to promote the multi-win situation of "less use of pesticides, more income, and better environment." Actively create new ecological industrial models such as urban modern agriculture, leisure agriculture, ecological tourism, boutique homestays, and rural complexes. As of the end of 2024, women have established 487,000 family farms, and women who have obtained vocational skill level certificates for homestay managers account for 68.6%. (See Column 20)
Practicing a green and low-carbon lifestyle. Green development is closely related to everyone. The vast number of women actively advocate the value concept of ecological civilization and advocate a simple, moderate, green, low-carbon, civilized, and healthy lifestyle and consumption pattern. Play a leading role in creating green families, promote water and electricity conservation, "CD-ROM action" (光盘行动) (guāng pán xíng dòng - "empty plate action," campaign to reduce food waste), green travel, and garbage classification in families and communities, and integrate green concepts into daily life. Actively participate in the construction of beautiful courtyards, participate in the construction of harmonious and beautiful villages in accordance with the standards of clean rooms, hygienic kitchens and toilets, tidy courtyards, rich greening, and harmonious family style. At present, there are more than 12 million "beautiful courtyards." The vast number of women are active on the front line of environmental protection knowledge publicity and community environmental remediation. For example, Shanghai has widely carried out the theme activity of "Millions of Families New Fashion · Garbage Classification Women's Action," looking for the most beautiful green families in thousands of households and recruiting 100,000 garbage classification family volunteers to create a good atmosphere for millions of families to participate in garbage classification.
Participating in disaster prevention and mitigation work. China takes ensuring the safety of people's lives as the primary goal of disaster prevention and mitigation work, adheres to mass prevention and control, and enhances the ability of the entire society to resist and respond to disasters. Women are involved in disaster scientific research and early warning work and have played an active role in disaster risk identification and information transmission, early warning and disposal, and disaster reporting. In 2024, there will be a total of 267,000 women in the national disaster information officer team, accounting for 23.6%, and women account for 61.6% of the national chief meteorological experts. Cooperate to carry out disaster prevention and mitigation publicity and disaster relief work, promote popular science publicity and education into families, and there are 13.71 million women among the national registered fire volunteers, accounting for 52.4%. At the same time, the "National Natural Disaster Relief Emergency Plan" puts forward requirements for protecting the rights and interests of special groups, and strengthens the material security of special needs such as women's sanitary products and maternity products through government and social collaboration.
V. Contributing Chinese Strength to the Development of Global Women's Cause
China adheres to the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, conforms to the trend of the times of peace, development, cooperation, and win-win results, actively promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, and works with all countries to accelerate action, create an international environment conducive to women's development, and jointly build and share a better world for all women and for everyone.
(I) Participating in Global Governance in the Field of Women
China actively plays a leading role, implements the spirit of the Fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, and promotes global governance in the field of women with practical actions.
Supporting the United Nations in playing a central role. Co-hosting the Global Women's Summit with UN Women to promote countries to fulfill their commitments and inject new impetus into the development of the global women's cause. At the UN Human Rights Council, China has made joint statements on promoting and protecting women's rights on many occasions, promoted the adoption of relevant resolutions, and called on countries to work together to implement the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. Continue to send high-level delegations to attend the sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, cooperate with UN organizations and related agencies, and conduct seminars on women's poverty reduction, digital economy, inclusive finance, technology empowerment, and gender equality in population change, and share China's experience in promoting women's development. Since 2015, China has donated US$20 million to UN Women, carried out practical cooperation in the field of women with multiple UN specialized agencies, and cooperated with UNESCO to establish the Girls' and Women's Education Award, and carried out projects such as girls' digital education and health education in Africa. Chinese women hold important positions and experts in the UN system, contributing wisdom to promoting global governance in the field of women. (See Column 21)
Firmly fulfill international obligations. Fulfill various international conventions such as the *Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women*, submit national implementation reports in a timely manner, actively participate in reviews, and promote gender equality and women's development. Actively practice the *Beijing Declaration* and the *Platform for Action*, continuously improve the survival and development of women, achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poverty reduction and health-related goals ahead of schedule, and provide the world with Chinese solutions to protect women's human rights.
Lead and promote multilateral and regional women's development agendas. At the Third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, the *Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative* was proposed, emphasizing the avoidance of gender discrimination in the development of artificial intelligence; promoting the adoption of the "Strengthening International Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence Capacity Building" resolution by the 78th United Nations General Assembly, emphasizing ensuring that everyone fully enjoys the benefits of artificial intelligence, improving digital inclusion, achieving gender equality, and enhancing the empowerment of women and girls. Since 2012, 29 women's conferences have been held within the cooperation frameworks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Group of Twenty (G20), BRICS countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), China-ASEAN, China-Africa, China-Arab States, China-Central Asia, and Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, deeply participating in women's field cooperation under relevant mechanisms, focusing on topics such as poverty reduction and development, employment and entrepreneurship, education empowerment, and anti-epidemic cooperation, conducting in-depth experience sharing and discussion dialogues, building cooperation and exchange platforms for empowering women, and proposing Chinese propositions on promoting women's comprehensive development and promoting inclusive and sustainable development.
(II) Deepen Women's Development Cooperation and Exchanges
China will organically integrate the deepening of women's development cooperation into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the "South-South Cooperation" framework to jointly promote women's sustainable development.
Promote the development of women in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road." Actively promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," with "Silk Road E-commerce" and other initiatives bringing employment opportunities and creating development conditions for women in co-building countries; launching the "Women's Digital Skills Enhancement Program" in Southeast Asian countries to help women's employment and entrepreneurship. With the theme of "Gathering Women's Strength to Jointly Build the 'Belt and Road'," a series of activities have been held in China and co-building countries for 10 consecutive years to help women in co-building countries become supporters, participants, promoters, and beneficiaries of the "Belt and Road" construction.
Help "South-South Cooperation" women's poverty reduction and development. Support developing countries in improving the environment for women's survival and development, implement 100 "Maternal and Child Health Projects" and 100 "Happy Campus Projects," and launch "small and beautiful" livelihood projects that empower women and girls, such as housing, rural roads, and skills training. Using the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, more than 40 million US dollars of women's field projects have been implemented in more than 20 countries. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund has invested 12 million yuan to support the implementation of women's development projects. Juncao technology helps women's employment in 106 countries through foreign aid training and technical assistance. (See Special Column 22)
Deepen international cooperation in women's capacity building. Continue to increase the training efforts for women in developing countries. Since 2018, support for training projects on women and children's themes in developing countries has been increased, and more than 100 training projects such as the Maternal and Child Health Promotion Seminar under the Global Development Initiative and the "Seminar on the Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for Developing Countries—Women and Children Special" have been specifically established and implemented, and academic degree projects on women's leadership and social development have been carried out, with a cumulative training of nearly 4,000 outstanding talents in the women's field. The Global Women's Development Cooperation and Exchange Training Base was established in Beijing (北京) to tailor women's empowerment projects for developing countries, and Sino-foreign women's training (exchange) centers were established in cooperation with 15 countries. Carry out international cooperation in vocational education, and the "Luban Workshop" has cumulatively trained 5,944 female students, accounting for 23.25% of the total number of students.
Solidly promote people-to-people exchanges in the women's field. Actively develop global partnerships and carry out friendly exchanges with women's organizations and institutions in more than 140 countries in an all-round and multi-channel manner. Carry out dialogue and exchanges with foreign female politicians, heads of state's wives, and government ministers, and send high-level delegations to visit foreign countries, creating a new situation in high-level women's diplomatic exchanges. Deepen women's exchanges under the people-to-people exchange mechanisms between China and relevant countries, hold special seminars on the themes of women's entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, women's education, anti-domestic violence, and family culture, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in women's rights, eliminating the digital gender gap, and promoting women's participation in scientific and technological innovation and sustainable development. Carry out the "Foreign Female Diplomats in China" series of activities, share China's vivid practices of women's participation in economic development and grassroots governance, and exchange experiences and practices in promoting gender equality. Support women's participation in cross-cultural exchanges, with women accounting for 80% of dispatched Chinese teachers and 90% of international Chinese education volunteers.
(III) Actively Respond to Global Challenges
China supports women in playing an active role in maintaining peace and security and responding to challenges such as climate change, public health crises, and humanitarian disasters.
Support women's participation in maintaining peace and security. Take practical actions to implement the United Nations Security Council resolution "on women, peace and security," and support women in playing an important role in conflict prevention, peace negotiations, and homeland reconstruction. In 2022, the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund launched a high-level female talent training project to promote gender equality in high-level positions in United Nations peacekeeping operations. China has more than 1,200 female peacekeeping officers and soldiers and more than 100 female peacekeeping police officers participating in medical support, liaison and coordination, mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal, patrol observation, and promoting gender equality and women's protection. (See Special Column 23)
Empower women to respond to climate change. Continue to hold South-South cooperation training courses on climate change, implement a gender-balanced enrollment policy, and since 2022, nearly 300 female officials, experts, and scholars from developing countries' climate change projects have come to China to participate in training. From 2012 to 2024, nearly 100 foreign aid training projects in the fields of meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and services were undertaken, and women accounted for 36.72% of the trainees. Donated 5,000 sets of solar household photovoltaic power generation systems and 10,000 clean stoves to Myanmar (缅甸) to reduce the harm of indoor air pollution to women's health and promote low-carbon transition. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Fund supports Cambodia (柬埔寨) in carrying out climate action gender mainstreaming projects to enhance the climate adaptability and resilience of rural women.
Pay attention to the needs of women in international humanitarian assistance. Pay close attention to women and children in participating in alleviating the migrant and refugee crisis, encourage women to register as recipients of family assistance materials, give special care to pregnant and lactating women, and the Congo (Brazzaville) (刚果（布）) project sets pregnant and lactating women as beneficiaries, effectively reducing the malnutrition rate of women and children. In 2023, more than 120,000 hygiene kits worth 1.5 million US dollars were provided to Rohingya women and girls sheltering in Bangladesh (孟加拉国), benefiting more than 60,000 women and girls.
Concluding Remarks
The pursuit of gender equality is a great cause. The spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement of Chinese women in the new era blooms on the road of striving forward by people of all ethnic groups across the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党); the glorious course of the development of women's cause in China in the new era is deeply integrated into the historical process of achieving the "two centenary goals" under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Chinese women have never enjoyed such great opportunities to shine in life and realize their dreams as they do today, and the cause of Chinese women has never had such broad development space as it does today.
At present, China is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, which requires gathering the strength of hundreds of millions of women and promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development at a higher level. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, China will unswervingly follow the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the basic national policy of gender equality, deeply implement the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women, improve women's comprehensive quality, actively create conditions and build platforms for women's participation in economic and social development, protect women's legitimate rights and interests, and let women walk at the forefront of the times.
In today's world, promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development faces both opportunities and arduous tasks. All countries still need to work hard to create a peaceful and tranquil environment for women's survival and development, eliminate problems such as violence, discrimination, and poverty, effectively respond to the adverse effects of climate change; continue to empower women's development, and promote women to enjoy more and better opportunities and play a more important role in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation; adhere to true multilateralism, firmly fulfill international obligations, and promote exchanges and mutual learning among women from all countries and connect people's hearts. China is willing to work with all countries in the world to join hands, accelerate action, jointly create a better future for women's development, and jointly compose a new chapter in the development of the global women's cause!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), September 19)
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Table of Contents
Preface
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
(IV) Fully Leveraging Women's Subjective Role
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's All-Round Development as a National Action
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Cause
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
(III) Strengthening the Legal Guarantee of Women's Rights and Interests
(IV) Creating an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
III. Women Sharing the Fruits of Modernization
(I) Absolute Poverty Completely Eliminated
(II) Health Status Significantly Improved
(III) Education Level Significantly Enhanced
(IV) Social Security Continuously Consolidated
(V) Family Life Becoming More Beautiful
IV. Promoting Women to Be at the Forefront of the Times
(I) Making Contributions in High-Quality Economic Development
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
(III) Showing Style in Cultural Prosperity and Development
(IV) Taking on Responsibilities in Grassroots Social Governance
(V) Working Hard and Dedicating in Ecological Civilization Construction
V. Contributing China's Strength to the Development of Global Women's Cause
(I) Participating in Global Governance in the Field of Women
(II) Deepening Cooperation and Exchanges in Women's Development
(III) Actively Responding to Global Challenges
Concluding Remarks
Preface
Women are the pioneers of human civilization and the promoters of social progress. To achieve gender equality and the all-round development of women, humanity has gone through an uneven and extraordinary journey.
Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always adhered to writing the realization of women's liberation and development, and the realization of gender equality on its banner of struggle. It has always regarded the vast number of women as an important force for promoting the development of the Party and the people's cause, and has always placed women's work in an important position, leading the vast number of women to gain liberation, seek progress, and seek development, and has opened up a path of women's development with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has taken safeguarding women's legitimate rights and interests and promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women as an important part of Chinese-style modernization, and has made a series of pioneering, overall, and long-term major decisions and deployments for the development of women's cause. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted this, presided over the first Central Party's Mass Organizations Work Conference in the history of the Party, attended the National Women's Congress of China (中国妇女全国代表大会) three times in a row, and held collective talks with the new leadership of the All-China Women's Federation (全国妇联), and delivered a series of important discourses on women, children, and the work of the Women's Federation, and on paying attention to family education and family style construction, pointing out the direction, determining the position, and clarifying the principles for the development of women's cause in the new era. Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality has been written into the Communist Party of China's (中国共产党) governing program, promoting the all-round development of women has been included in the national development plan, the legal system for safeguarding women's rights and interests has been continuously improved, and the working pattern for the development of women's cause has been further improved. The vast number of women are striving to be builders of a great cause, advocates of civilized customs, and strivers who dare to pursue their dreams, and are winning a splendid life in participation and contribution. The development of women's cause in China in the new era has achieved historic achievements, and the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics is becoming wider and wider.
The fate of women around the world is intertwined, and the development of women's cause in China is closely linked to the development of women's cause around the world. In 1995, China successfully hosted the Fourth World Conference on Women of the United Nations (联合国第四次世界妇女大会), and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (《北京宣言》和《行动纲领》) adopted at the conference became a milestone in the global cause of gender equality. At important occasions such as the 2015 Global Women's Summit and the 2020 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women, President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded China's propositions on promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women, and proposed to convene the Global Women's Summit again in 2025. On the occasion of the convening of this summit, in order to systematically introduce the concepts, principles, and innovative practices of China in promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women in the new era, vividly demonstrate the outstanding demeanor and responsibility of Chinese women, and work with countries around the world to promote the development of global women's cause, this white paper is specially released.
I. Comprehensively Pioneering the Path of Women's Development in China
In the process of Chinese-style modernization, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), based on the basic national conditions and in line with the trend of history, has united and led the vast number of women to continue to struggle, and has embarked on a correct path to realize women's equal exercise of democratic rights in accordance with the law, equal participation in economic and social development, and equal enjoyment of the fruits of reform and development.
(I) Upholding the Overall Leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)
The leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the fundamental guarantee for the vigorous development of women's cause in China. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and incorporated the promotion of gender equality and the all-round development of women into the overall development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. "Adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" has been continuously written into the reports of the 18th, 19th, and 20th National Congresses of the Party; the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party clearly proposed "adhering to and improving the institutional mechanisms for promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women" and "paying attention to the important role of family education and family style in grassroots social governance"; the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party wrote "adhering to the basic national policy of gender equality and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "strengthening family, family education, and family style construction" into the "Suggestions of the CPC Central Committee on Formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development and the Long-Range Objectives Through the Year 2035"; the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party wrote "paying attention to family education and family style construction and safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children" into the Party's third historical resolution; the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party incorporated "improving the system for safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "improving the mechanism for leveraging the role of family education and family style construction in grassroots governance" into the overall deployment of further comprehensively deepening reform, and women's cause is striding forward under the overall leadership of the Party.
(II) Implementing the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality
Taking gender equality as a basic national policy is an innovative move of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and an important strategic decision for China to promote gender equality and the all-round development of women. China strengthens top-level design and systematic planning, fully considers the realistic differences between men and women and the special interests of women when issuing laws, formulating policies, compiling plans, and deploying work, promotes the equality of rights, opportunities, and results between men and women, and safeguards women's rights and interests in accordance with the law. Vigorously cultivate a social atmosphere of respecting and caring for women, eliminate all forms of discrimination against women, break down backward ideas and outdated customs that hinder women's development, and build a more inclusive and dynamic social environment, so that the concept of gender equality truly becomes a common code of conduct and value standard for the whole society.
(III) Promoting the Synchronized Development of Women and the Economy and Society
Development cannot be separated from women, and development should benefit all the people, including women. China closely integrates the course of national development and progress with the course of promoting gender equality and development, incorporates women's cause into the "five-in-one" overall layout of socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction with Chinese characteristics, incorporates women's development goals and tasks into the five-year plans for national economic and social development, and takes the level of women's development as an important yardstick for measuring the level of economic and social development, so as to realize the synchronized planning, synchronized deployment, synchronized promotion, and synchronized implementation of women's cause development and economic and social development, so that the fruits of modernization construction can benefit the vast number of women more and more fairly, and make women's sense of gain, happiness, and security more substantial, more secure, and more sustainable.
(IV) Fully Leveraging Women's Subjective Role
Women are not only a great force for promoting the progress of human civilization, but also the masters and creators of their own destiny. China adheres to the people-centered development thought, respects women's subjective status, and strengthens institutional guarantees, policy support, and public service supply. Carry out a series of actions to build meritorious service for women, promote the all-round improvement of women's quality and ability, smooth the channels for women's participation, maximize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the vast number of women, and maximize the realization, maintenance, and development of the vital interests of the vast number of women. Encourage the vast number of women to integrate their personal ideals and pursuits into the cause of the Party and the country, give full play to their own advantages in various fields such as implementing the new development concept, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, realizing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, and play a unique role in social life and family life, and contribute women's strength to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
(V) Working Together with Women Worldwide to Build and Share a Better World
Human beings share a common home, and the development of women around the world is closely linked. China adheres to the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, actively promotes the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, advocates people-centeredness, focuses on action-orientedness, and issues Chinese initiatives, provides Chinese solutions, and promises Chinese actions for the development of women's cause around the world. Support the United Nations (联合国) in placing women's work in a priority position, deepen practical cooperation in the field of women with countries around the world, strengthen exchanges and mutual learning, gather consensus on the pursuit of gender equality, jointly create an international environment conducive to women's development, jointly safeguard international fairness and justice, and make Chinese contributions to promoting the world towards a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.
II. Taking the Promotion of Women's All-Round Development as a National Action
China takes the development of women's cause as an important part of national governance, and continues to strengthen the support and guarantee of the institutional mechanism, creating an environment and conditions for women's all-round development.
(I) Improving the Working Pattern for the Development of Women's Cause
The establishment of a women's work mechanism with the Party committee leading, the government taking the main responsibility, the Women and Children's Work Committee coordinating, the Women's Federation organization linking, multi-department cooperation, and the whole society participating has formed a working pattern of joint management, providing a solid guarantee for implementing gender equality in all fields of economic and social development and all aspects of social life.
The People's Congress strengthens legislation and supervision. The National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) has established a Social Construction Committee, which undertakes legislative, supervisory, and representative proposal handling work related to the protection of women's rights and interests. Attention is paid to incorporating legal projects that promote women's development and protect women's rights and interests into the legislative plans and plans of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and attention is paid to soliciting and adopting the opinions of the Women's Federation organizations and women in legislative and supervisory work. Listen to and deliberate on the State Council's report on the work of combating domestic violence, and take the protection of the legitimate rights and special rights and interests of female employees as an important content in the law enforcement inspection of the Trade Union Law, and urge relevant departments to fulfill their statutory responsibilities for safeguarding women's rights and interests. The People's Congresses of 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have established social construction committees to formulate local regulations that are compatible with the superior laws and regulations, and strengthen the legal guarantee of women's rights and interests.
The People's Government effectively fulfills its main responsibility. Formulate and organize the implementation of the Outline for the Development of Women, convene working conferences on women and children, give play to the role of the Women and Children's Work Committee as a deliberative and coordinating body, and promote the Party's organs, government departments, judicial organs, people's organizations, etc. to perform their respective duties to do a good job in women's work. Improve the statistical monitoring mechanism of the Outline for the Development of Women, formulate the "Gender Statistical Monitoring System", covering more than 2,400 indicators, set up gender indicators in national population censuses, time use surveys and other statistical surveys, carry out the fourth phase of the China Women's Social Status Survey, and monitor and evaluate the development status of women in multiple dimensions.
The People's Political Consultative Conference strengthens consultation and suggestions. The political consultative conferences at all levels perform the functions of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and deliberation of state affairs, and consult on women's issues through special consultations, sectoral consultations, counterpart consultations, proposal handling consultations, and other platforms. The Women's Federation sector, as one of the 34 sectors of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), conducts sectoral research and consultation on key and difficult issues in women's development such as women's fertility and health rights protection. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) conducts consultations and suggestions on topics such as promoting women's fair employment and career development, family education and family style construction, and the inclusive childcare service system, helping women's development.
The Women's Federation organization gives full play to its role as a bridge and link. The All-China Women's Federation (中华全国妇女联合会) is a mass organization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in which women of all ethnic groups and all walks of life unite to strive for further liberation and development. It has established an organizational system that runs through the six levels of the state, provinces, cities, counties, townships, and villages, and covers organs and institutions, new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups. The Women's Federation organizations at all levels actively play the role of a bridge and link between the Party and the government and the women, act as a capable assistant to the Party, closely focus on the country's major development strategies, perform the functions of leading, serving, and connecting, and widely carry out the "Five Actions" of the Women's Heart to the Party Leading Action, the Women's Meritorious Service Series Action, the Family Service Women's Action, the Women's Rights Protection Warm Heart Action, and the Women's Federation Organization Strengthening and Difficulties Breaking and Women's Federation Cadre Ability and Quality Improvement Action, and concentrate efforts on grasping the Caring Service of Loving Mothers, the Quality Improvement and Expansion of Women's Housekeeping, Women's Vocational Skills Training, the Development of Inclusive Childcare Service System, the Deepening of the "Spring Bud Project - Dream Future" Action, and the Telling of the Story of Chinese Women's Development, and provide tangible and accessible services for women, children, and families.
(II) Coordinating the Planning of Goals and Tasks for Women's Development
The national development plan clarifies the strategic tasks of women's development. The Five-Year Plan is a blueprint and action program for China's economic and social development during the planning period. When China scientifically compiles the Five-Year Plan and deploys the strategic goals of realizing modernization, it incorporates women's development goals into it. The 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) for the first time made a special section deployment to promote the all-round development of women, and put forward clear requirements on developing women's human resources, strengthening women's labor protection, and severely cracking down on illegal and criminal acts of violence against women. The 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) further strengthened the protection of women's rights and interests, and for the first time set up a special chapter to deploy the tasks of ensuring women's equal access to the rights and opportunities to education, employment, and participation in social affairs, and eliminating discrimination and prejudice against women, and put forward the goals of women's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction. The 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) continues to plan the goals of women's rights and interests in health, education, labor, political participation, social security, etc., and for the first time added a special section on "strengthening family construction", focusing on optimizing policies and services to support family development.
Special plans in related fields respond to the realistic needs of women's development. The "Healthy China 2030" Plan Outline, the Outline for Building a Strong Education Country, as well as the "14th Five-Year Plan" for Employment Promotion and the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Civil Affairs and other special plans in the field of people's livelihood, specifically put forward policy measures on improving maternal and child health levels, ensuring women's equal right to education, supporting women's employment and entrepreneurship and career development, and improving the care service system for rural left-behind women. The National Medium and Long-Term Talent Development Plan Outline makes arrangements for promoting a more reasonable gender structure of talents and strengthening the training and selection of female talents, and the National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline makes deployments for implementing the quality improvement plan for rural women. All four phases of the National Human Rights Action Plan have set up a special section on "Women's Rights", with special measures to protect women's rights and interests in personal, property, education, employment, health, etc.
The Women's Development Program comprehensively plans the phased goals of women's development. Since 1995, four cycles of women's development programs have been successively formulated and implemented, comprehensively deploying the main goals and strategic measures for women's development in different stages. The 2021-2030 China Women's Development Program systematically sets up 75 main goals and 93 strategic measures in eight fields: women's health, education, economy, participation in decision-making and management, social security, family construction, environment, and law. 41 party and government departments and institutions are assigned to implement them. All 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), as well as more than 300 prefectures (cities) and more than 2,000 counties (districts) across the country, have formulated women's development plans for their respective regions in light of their actual conditions. The goals and tasks of the Women's Development Program are linked to the national development plan and coordinated with special plans in different fields, and the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels are vertically connected, forming a planning system to promote women's development.
(III) Strengthening the Legal Guarantee of Women's Rights and Interests
Continuously improve the legal system. In the process of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, the legal protection of women's rights and interests is promoted in an integrated manner, and a legal system is built with the Constitution as the foundation and the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests as the main body, including more than 100 laws and regulations. In compiling the Civil Code, the "Personality Rights Section" further clarifies the definition of sexual harassment and the responsibilities of employers, and the "Marriage and Family Section" improves the systems for determining and clearing joint debts of husband and wife, and economic compensation for housework in divorce. The Criminal Law was amended to abolish the crime of patronizing child prostitutes and treat it as rape, increase the statutory minimum sentence for the crime of indecent assault against children, increase the punishment for the crime of buying trafficked women, and add the crime of sexual assault by persons with care responsibilities. The Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests was revised to make more comprehensive and systematic provisions on the system and mechanism for protecting women's rights and interests. The Anti-Domestic Violence Law was formulated, clarifying the mandatory reporting, admonishment, personal safety protection order, and temporary shelter systems. The Rural Land Contract Law was amended to improve the legal protection of rural women's land rights and interests, allowing women to achieve "name on the certificate, right under the name." The Law on Rural Collective Economic Organizations was formulated to institutionally ensure that women do not lose their membership and rights and interests in rural collective economic organizations due to changes in marital status. The Legal Aid Law, the Basic Medical and Health Care and Health Promotion Law, and the Population and Family Planning Law all have special clauses to protect women's rights and interests. The state level and 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) have established a gender equality assessment mechanism for laws and regulations to assess laws and regulations closely related to women's rights and interests, and promote the implementation of the basic national policy of gender equality from the source of laws and policies. (See Special Column 1)
Strengthen law enforcement and judicial protection. Severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts that infringe upon the personal rights of women and girls in accordance with the law. Since 2013, public security organs have continued to carry out special actions to combat the crime of trafficking in women and children. In 2024, the number of cases of trafficking in women and children nationwide decreased by 95% compared with 2013. A multi-departmental cooperation and consultation mechanism for combating domestic violence has been established, and implementation opinions on the domestic violence warning system and personal safety protection order system have been issued, and judicial interpretations have been issued to clarify specific measures to prevent and intervene in domestic violence and various forms of evidence for identifying domestic violence. Detailed institutional measures for preventing and handling sexual harassment in the workplace have been added, and an independent cause of action for "disputes over liability for damages from sexual harassment" has been added. Mechanisms such as mandatory reporting, supervision of guardianship, professional prohibition, and "one-stop" case handling and assistance for cases involving minors have been established to strengthen the protection of the personal rights and interests of girls. Procuratorial organs at all levels have filed 3,810 public interest litigation cases involving women's rights and interests. Since 2012, legal aid institutions across the country have organized the handling of more than 4.2 million legal aid cases for women, providing free legal consultation to more than 20 million women.
Carry out legal publicity and education. Successively formulate and implement the national "Seventh Five-Year Plan" and "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, and regard laws and regulations on protecting women's legitimate rights and interests as important content. Strengthen legal publicity and interpretation. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) specially organized a press conference to interpret the principles and highlights of the formulation and revision of the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. Carry out legal publicity activities through multiple channels and in various forms. Since 2012, the "China Legal Popularization" WeChat official account has published legal publicity articles related to the protection of women's rights and interests, with a readership of 91.36 million. The number of participants in the annual legal knowledge quiz has reached tens of millions; the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会) has carried out the "Caring for Female Employees, the Law is by Your Side" legal publicity campaign for 11 consecutive years; since 2016, women's federations at all levels across the country have organized more than 3.76 million legal publicity and legal service activities, with the participation of more than 400 million women. In 2024, national courts and procuratorates, together with women's federations, held more than 4,200 special open day activities to protect the rights and interests of women and children, and released more than 3,800 typical cases; the "Pufa Rural Tour for Women" activity covered 86% of rural areas.
(IV) Create an Equal and Harmonious Social Environment
Vigorously publicize the basic national policy of gender equality. Carry out all-round, multi-channel, and segmented publicity and education, and promote the basic national policy of gender equality into government agencies, schools, enterprises, urban and rural communities, and families. For party and government leading cadres, organize the compilation of the reader "Implementation and Implementation of the Basic National Policy of Gender Equality," and incorporate relevant content into the party school curriculum system and teaching plan. For student groups, actively promote gender equality education in primary and secondary schools, incorporate gender equality content into textbook planning, textbook management methods, and related curriculum textbook guidelines, pay attention to the balanced gender ratio of characters in textbook illustrations, and pay attention to selecting excellent female writers' works in selected articles and cases to eliminate gender stereotypes. For the general public, incorporate the basic national policy of gender equality into the construction of spiritual civilization in urban and rural communities, incorporate it into village rules and regulations and residents' conventions, and incorporate it into family education and family style construction. Party members, cadres, experts, scholars, and women workers jointly carry out publicity, and through popular publicity and education activities, let citizens understand the national policy and practice the national policy. (See Special Column 2)
Strengthen equality awareness in the media field. Relevant laws such as the Advertising Law and the China Women's Development Program stipulate gender equality assessment and supervision in the media field, and strictly prohibit the appearance of phenomena that belittle, deny, or infringe upon women's personality in media reports or advertisements. Pay attention to the gender equality review of the content of film and television literary works, and incorporate relevant requirements into the links of script argumentation, film viewing, production and distribution. News media publish prohibited and cautious words in news information reports to eliminate uncivilized terms that discriminate against gender. Implement the media social responsibility reporting system, and regard "protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women, children, the elderly, and the disabled, and paying attention to protecting their physical and mental health" as the code of professional ethics for media personnel. Strengthen the publicity of advanced female models, and vigorously publicize the patriotic feelings of women in the new era who love the motherland and dedicate themselves to the people, the spirit of self-improvement and hard work, and the noble sentiments of being positive, enterprising, and advocating virtue and goodness through special reports, publicity releases, and the organization of reports on advanced deeds. The concept of gender equality is vigorously promoted throughout society.
Strive to create a clear network space. Issue judicial interpretations, release guiding cases, and carry out special actions to severely crack down on crimes such as fraud, trafficking, and rape against women and children committed through the Internet, and severely punish illegal acts that infringe upon personal information, spread rumors, and make malicious comments that infringe upon women's personality rights. Strengthen platform responsibility, centrally dispose of illegal and bad information, and remove articles and short videos that promote the concept of valuing boys over girls and deliberately render family conflicts. Strengthen the supply of high-quality online content, carry out special theme publicity, and launch a number of new media products that display the style of women in the new era and reflect family and country feelings, such as the theme song "Flowers Bloom in China" (花开中国) of women in the new era, the image film "Together" (在一起) of the women's federation organization, and the family image promotional film "I Love My Family" (我爱我家), which are widely spread among women and hundreds of millions of families, and the ideological and political guidance work of women presents a new atmosphere. Improve the digital literacy of all people, cultivate good Chinese netizens among women, tell the stories of China and Chinese women well, sing the main theme, and gather positive energy online.
3. Women Share the Fruits of Modernization Construction
Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. China continues to work hard on providing childcare, education, employment, medical care, elderly care, housing, and assistance to the vulnerable, and constantly realizes the aspirations of the vast number of women for a better life.
(I) Absolute Poverty is Completely Eliminated
China organized and implemented the largest, most powerful, and most beneficial poverty alleviation battle in human history, completely eliminating absolute poverty by the end of 2020, achieving the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda 10 years ahead of schedule. In the magnificent poverty reduction process, China fulfilled its solemn commitment that **一个都不能少** (yī gè dōu bù néng shǎo - "not even one can be missing," no one should be left behind in the fight against poverty) on the road to poverty alleviation, and women, as key poverty alleviation targets, are embarking on an increasingly broad road to prosperity.
Targeted poverty alleviation effectively guarantees basic living. Implement the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation, establish files and cards for the poor, find out the distribution of the poor, the causes of poverty, the types of poverty, and the needs for poverty alleviation, and achieve "six precisions" in supporting objects, project arrangements, fund use, measures to households, sending people to villages, and poverty alleviation results, so that women, who account for about half of the poor population, have obtained precise resource allocation. Implement the health poverty alleviation project, carry out special health promotion actions, and ensure that rural poor women enjoy basic medical and health services. Implement the education poverty alleviation campaign, steadily improve the quality of compulsory education in poor areas, and ensure that school-age girls from poor families do not drop out of school due to poverty. Strengthen social security, and include eligible women from the registered poor population in the minimum living security and special hardship assistance. Implement the renovation of dilapidated rural houses, and provide subsidies for the renovation of dilapidated houses in deeply impoverished areas; implement relocation for poverty alleviation, which has solved the problem of poverty alleviation and development for more than 9.6 million poor people living in areas where "one side of the land cannot support one side of the people." Poor women have steadily achieved the "two no worries and three guarantees" of not worrying about food and clothing and having guaranteed compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety. After winning the battle against poverty in an all-round way, a 5-year transition period was established to "help and support" the poverty-stricken areas and the poverty-stricken population. On the basis of overall stability of assistance policies, a sound dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing return to poverty was established to continuously support the development of production, expansion of employment, and increase of income for women who have been lifted out of poverty and rural low-income women.
Developing production helps women's employment and income increase. Adhere to the policy of development-oriented poverty alleviation and empower poor women to develop. Strengthen industrial support, promote the gradient transfer of labor-intensive industries such as food processing and garment manufacturing, and industrial assistance policies cover 98.9% of poor households. Through east-west labor cooperation, the establishment of poverty alleviation workshops, and the development of rural public welfare posts, job opportunities are provided for poor women with labor ability and willingness; encourage and support the development of new formats and new industries such as e-commerce poverty alleviation, photovoltaic poverty alleviation, and tourism poverty alleviation to help poor women achieve employment at their doorstep; develop the handicraft weaving industry in ethnic areas, and transform "Miao embroidery" (苗绣), "Yi embroidery" (彝绣) and other order-based handicraft weaving from "fingertip skills" to "fingertip economy." Strengthen financial and financial support. During the poverty alleviation period, special policies were introduced to provide interest-subsidized loans without collateral and guarantees, tax and fee reductions, and other support. A total of more than 450 billion yuan of small guaranteed loans and poverty alleviation small loans were issued to women, and 8.7 million women achieved entrepreneurial income increase; from 2021 to 2024, 1.928 million women continued to receive 76.83 billion yuan of small loans for poverty alleviation. Strengthen capacity training, carry out multi-channel, multi-level, and multi-form vocational skills training, entrepreneurship training, and agricultural practical technology training. As of 2020, a total of 10.21 million poor women and women cadres have received various types of skills training; from 2023 to 2024, the "Rain and Dew Program" (雨露计划) subsidized a total of 632,000 women to receive vocational education, and the endogenous driving force for women's development continued to be stimulated. (See Special Column 3)
Increase investment to break through the bottlenecks in women's development. Increase investment in infrastructure construction to fundamentally solve the problems of difficulty in travel, electricity use, water use, and communication that restrict the development of women in poor areas. Achieve the goal of hardening roads, passenger cars, and postal roads in all qualified townships and established villages, basically achieve stable and reliable power supply services in rural areas, and fully achieve the goal of connecting counties to gigabit, townships to 5G, and villages to broadband. As of the end of 2024, the popularization rate of tap water in rural areas nationwide reached 94%. (See Special Column 4)
(II) Health Status Significantly Improved
China puts safeguarding people's health in a strategic position of priority development, comprehensively promotes the construction of a healthy China, regards the health of women and children as the cornerstone of national health, consolidates and improves the system, optimizes the allocation of resources, and provides women with health services throughout their life cycle.
The maternal and child health service system continues to improve. Embed the maternal and child health care service network into the medical and health care network covering 1.4 billion people, and build a maternal and child health service system with maternal and child health care institutions as the core, primary medical and health institutions as the foundation, and large and medium-sized hospitals and scientific research institutions as the support. From 2012 to 2023, the number of health technicians in maternal and child health care institutions increased from 277,000 to 537,000, with an average annual growth rate of more than 6%; the actual number of beds increased from 187,000 to 295,000, an increase of nearly 60%. At present, there are 3,081 maternal and child health care institutions, 3,491 critical pregnant women rescue centers, and 3,221 critical newborn rescue centers nationwide. More than 2,600 secondary and above traditional Chinese medicine hospitals have set up gynecology departments. Develop the "Internet + Maternal and Child Health" service model. 31 provincial-level "Cloud Maternal and Child" telemedicine platforms carry out training and guidance on the rescue of critical pregnant women, and the equalization level of maternal and child health services has been significantly improved. (See Special Column 5)
Breakthroughs in key women's health issues. Strengthen resource coordination and incorporate the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS, syphilis, and hepatitis B into major public health service projects. In 2024, the mother-to-child transmission rate of AIDS dropped to 1.2%, which has reached the target requirement for eliminating mother-to-child transmission. Deeply promote the comprehensive prevention and treatment of cervical cancer and breast cancer. From 2009 to 2024, 342 million people were screened for cervical cancer and 245 million people were screened for breast cancer free of charge; from 2012 to 2024, the central government invested 3.01 billion yuan to rescue sick women. As of June 2025, 18 provinces have provided free vaccination for school-age girls by including the vaccination of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in government livelihood projects, benefiting approximately 5 million girls each year. Around the entire chain of childbirth and the entire life cycle of women, build a group of women's health characteristic specialty departments and outpatient clinics. Carry out reproductive health promotion actions. As of the end of 2024, youth health education services have been carried out in more than 10,000 primary and secondary schools and more than 1,000 universities across the country. Implement the National Health Literacy Improvement Action, Healthy Family Construction, and "Healthy China, Mother Action" to guide women to lead family members and the whole society to improve health awareness and health management capabilities.
Women's health levels have been greatly improved. In 2020, the average life expectancy of women has increased to 80.9 years. Since 2012, the national hospitalization delivery rate has remained stable at more than 99%, the systematic management rate of pregnant women reached 94.9% in 2024, and the maternal mortality rate dropped from 61.9/100,000 in 1995 to 14.3/100,000 in 2024, a decrease of 76.9%, which is far lower than the world average. China's core indicators of maternal and child health (maternal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, and under-5 mortality rate) rank among the top middle- and high-income countries in the world, achieving the relevant goals of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda ahead of schedule, and are listed by the World Health Organization as one of the 10 countries with high performance in maternal and child health. (See Figure 1 and Figure 2)
(III) Education Level Significantly Improved
In building a strong education country and comprehensively promoting the integrated reform of the education, science and technology talent system and mechanism, China vigorously promotes women's equal access to education of all types at all levels, continuously improves women's scientific literacy, and accelerates the promotion of women's lifelong education, and women's right to education is effectively guaranteed.
Basic gender disparities in education have been largely eliminated. With the continuous implementation of four "Preschool Education Action Plans," in 2024, there were 16.9414 million girls in kindergartens nationwide, accounting for 47.3%. Efforts have been made to promote high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education, accelerate the reduction of educational disparities between regions, urban and rural areas, schools, and groups. The net enrollment rate of school-age girls in primary schools has remained above 99.9%. In 2024, girls accounted for 46.98% of students in the nine-year compulsory education stage. With the implementation of the Senior Secondary Education Universalization Plan (2017-2020) and the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development and Improvement of Ordinary High Schools in Counties, the proportion of women receiving high school education has continued to increase. In 2024, girls accounted for 49.3% of students in ordinary high schools. (See Special Column 6)
The gender ratio in higher education is basically balanced. Continuous efforts have been made to build the world's largest higher education system, consolidate and improve the popularization level of higher education, and ensure gender equality in the enrollment of ordinary colleges and universities through policies and regulations. In 2024, girls accounted for 50.76% of students in higher education, an increase of 14.15 percentage points compared to 1995. Among them, female graduate students accounted for 50.01%, an increase of 22.43 percentage points compared to 1995. (See Figure 3)
Women enjoy higher quality vocational and lifelong education. Efforts have been accelerated to establish a modern vocational education system, and financial assistance policies such as tuition waivers, scholarships (grants), and student loans have been provided to eligible students from families with financial difficulties in accordance with regulations. The level of vocational education received by women has continued to improve. In 2024, girls accounted for 47.9% of students in higher vocational education colleges and universities and 45.2% of students in secondary vocational education schools. The lifelong learning system for women is more open and flexible. The "National Lifelong Education Smart Education Platform" has been established to provide more convenient and accessible channels to meet the diverse learning needs of women. The number of women participating in adult education has increased year by year. In 2024, there were 5.133 million female students in adult undergraduate and junior college programs, accounting for 54%, an increase of 1.963 million compared to 2012. In 2020, the average years of education for women aged 15 and above nationwide reached 9.59 years.
Women's scientific literacy has gradually improved. The "National Science Literacy Action Plan Outline (2021-2035)" was promulgated, incorporating the improvement of women's scientific literacy into it. The "Guidelines for Science Education in Primary and Secondary Schools" was issued to optimize primary and secondary school curricula, teaching materials, experimental teaching, teacher training, and practical activities, and to strengthen the connection and transformation of science education resources. Public welfare projects such as "Science Has Her - Girls Love Science," "Technology Empowers Girls," "Spring Bud Technology Girls," "Exploring the Future Technology Women Training Program," and "Female Scientist Growth Program" have been implemented to stimulate and cultivate female students' interest in science. The quality improvement project for female employees has been implemented to help female employees improve their digital skills. The gender gap in scientific literacy has continued to narrow, the scale of the female science and technology talent team has gradually expanded, the structure has been continuously optimized, and the ability has been significantly improved, making outstanding contributions in basic theory, applied technology, engineering practice, and other aspects. In 2024, women accounted for 2.846 million research and experimental development (R&D) personnel, an increase of 1.692 million compared to 2012. (See Special Column 7)
(IV) Social Security is Constantly Consolidated
China has built the world's largest social security system, gradually narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas on the basis of "ensuring full coverage," continuously improving social security policies for key groups, increasing assistance to women in difficulty, steadily improving treatment levels, and women enjoy more adequate, reliable, and equitable social security.
The medical and pension insurance systems have achieved full coverage. The medical security system has been continuously improved, and the financial subsidy standards for participation in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents have been increased. In 2024, 651 million women participated in basic medical insurance, accounting for 49.1% of the total number of participants; 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban and rural residents, accounting for 48% of the total number of participants; and 260 million women participated in basic pension insurance for urban employees, accounting for 48.2% of the total number of participants.
More women have access to unemployment and work-related injury protection. Attention has been paid to protecting the employment, safety, and health of employees. As of the end of 2024, approximately 105 million women participated in unemployment insurance, 1.7 times that of 2012, accounting for 42.7% of the total number of participants; approximately 117 million women participated in work-related injury insurance, 1.6 times that of 2012, accounting for 38.6% of the total number of participants. Specific measures have been formulated to further ensure that new employment form personnel receive effective assistance and compensation after occupational injuries occur. Comprehensive direct settlement of work-related injury insurance for cross-provincial medical treatment has been carried out to protect the rights and interests of female employees injured at work and to meet medical needs to a greater extent.
The level of maternity protection for women has been significantly improved. The comprehensive promotion of the merger of maternity insurance and employee medical insurance has been implemented, the participation of employers in maternity insurance has been continuously promoted, the coverage of maternity insurance has been gradually expanded, and local areas with conditions have been guided to include flexible employment personnel in the coverage of maternity insurance. During the period when unemployed persons receive unemployment insurance benefits, maternity insurance premiums are paid by the unemployment insurance fund on their behalf, and unemployed women enjoy maternity medical treatment by participating in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents. As of the end of 2024, the number of women participating in maternity insurance reached 111 million. 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) have included appropriate assisted reproductive projects in medical insurance. (See Figure 4)
The bottom line of protection for women in difficulty has been further strengthened. The minimum living security standards have been continuously improved. In 2024, the national average standards for urban and rural minimum living security were 2.4 times and 3.4 times those of 2012, respectively. Subsidies or premium payments are provided for women included in the minimum living security recipients, people in extreme poverty, and other groups in difficulty to participate in basic medical and pension insurance for urban and rural residents. A comprehensive system of living allowances for people with disabilities in difficulty and nursing allowances for people with severe disabilities has been established. In 2024, 9.395 million women enjoyed the two types of allowances for people with disabilities, accounting for 46% of the number of people enjoying the two types of allowances. Actions have been taken to provide precise care and assistance to rural left-behind women in difficulty, including conducting surveys and establishing files, ensuring basic living conditions, promoting employment and income increase, and enriching spiritual life.
(V) Family Life is More Beautiful
China pays attention to family building, family education, and family traditions, and emphasizes the unique role of women in social and family life, in promoting the traditional Chinese family virtues and establishing good family traditions. It continuously improves policies to support family development, enhances family development capabilities, and creates positive and favorable conditions for women to enjoy a more beautiful family life.
Family relationships in the new era are more equal and harmonious. Laws and regulations such as the Civil Code, the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law have been promulgated to protect women's marital and family rights and interests. New types of marriage and childbearing culture have been actively cultivated. Marriage registration authorities at or above the county level across the country have generally carried out marriage and family counseling services. More than 2,000 pilot units have promoted marriage custom reforms, and the "New Marriage Customs Entering Thousands of Homes" campaign has been continuously carried out to advocate values such as gender equality, mutual respect, and co-parenting. The fourth China Women's Social Status Survey shows that 90% of wives participate in major family decision-making, an increase of approximately 15 percentage points compared to 2010. The gap in housework time between men and women has narrowed, and people are more inclined to respect each other and trust each other in marital relationships.
A family-friendly society is gradually being established. To adapt to high-quality population development and family development needs, a number of measures have been introduced to accelerate the improvement of the policy system to support childbirth and promote the construction of a childbirth-friendly society. The maternity leave system has been improved, and local regulations have been generally issued in various places to extend maternity leave and male paternity leave, and to add parental childcare leave. The policy of special additional deductions for individual income tax for childcare for infants and young children under 3 years old, elderly care, and children's education has been implemented. A childcare subsidy system has been established and implemented, and free preschool education is gradually being promoted. Employers are encouraged to build "family-friendly workplaces" and to negotiate with employees to adopt flexible work arrangements such as flexible working hours and working from home to help employees balance career development and childcare, and to provide maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, 403,000 unionized enterprises and institutions across the country have established female employee rest and breastfeeding rooms. The allocation of maternal and infant facilities in public places has been strengthened. The "Unified Standard for the Design of Civil Buildings," the "Design Standard for Office Buildings," and the "Design Code for Railway Passenger Station Buildings" all put forward requirements for the setting of maternal and infant facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were 1,449 maternal and infant rooms built in railway stations across the country, 5,371 maternal and infant rooms built in highway service areas (including parking areas) across the country, 286 maternal and infant rooms built in passenger ships and port passenger stations in various places, all transportation airports with an annual passenger throughput of more than 5,000 passengers are equipped with maternal and infant rooms, 2,308 maternal and infant rooms have been built in secondary and above automobile passenger stations across the country, and 2,599 maternal and infant rooms have been built in urban rail transit stations. (See Special Column 8)
Services to reduce the burden of family care are more diverse. A variety of forms of childcare services such as full-day care, half-day care, and temporary care are provided to families, and employers are supported to run childcare facilities. As of the end of 2024, there were a total of 5.737 million childcare places across the country, with 4.08 childcare places for infants and young children under 3 years old per thousand people. A family education guidance service system covering urban and rural areas has been built, relying on more than 400,000 parent schools and more than 20,000 online new media platforms in urban and rural communities, giving play to the role of the family education guidance service team, organizing and carrying out colorful family parent-child activities, and delivering scientific family education guidance services to homes and to people's sides. The supply pattern of elderly care services based on home, relying on the community, supported by institutions, and combining medical care and elderly care has been optimized, and services such as meal assistance, bathing assistance, age-appropriate transformation, and barrier-free transformation of homes for people with disabilities in difficulty are more convenient and accessible. The quality and capacity expansion of the domestic service industry has been continuously promoted. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately 600,000 domestic service industry operators and 16,000 "Jinguo" domestic service community service stations. The National "Jinguo" Domestic Service Vocational Skills Competition was held to encourage domestic service practitioners to improve their skills, build a growth platform for more relevant practitioners, and provide high-quality services for the majority of families. (See Special Column 9)
IV. Promoting Women to Walk at the Forefront of the Times
On the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, everyone is the protagonist. Chinese women consciously link their own future and destiny closely with the future and destiny of the country and the nation, actively devote themselves to the construction of a strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern power, make contributions to the new era with actions, and create a better life with struggle.
(I) Making Contributions in High-Quality Economic Development
China expands channels for women's participation, improves participation capacity, and stimulates creativity in promoting high-quality economic development, and the role of the vast number of women as "half the sky" is fully demonstrated.
Demonstrating value in employment and entrepreneurship. Adhering to the employment-first strategy, increasing financial investment, implementing the "Entrepreneurship and Innovation Jinguo Action" and the "Jinguo Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Action," setting up special recruitment areas for women and holding special sessions in the "National Recruitment Action" and the "Spring Breeze Action" to promote the expansion of women's employment scale and improve quality. Incorporating gender discrimination in employment into the scope of labor security supervision, formulating the "Special Labor Protection System for Female Employees in the Workplace (Reference Text)" and the "System for Eliminating Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (Reference Text)," guiding employers to improve the system for special labor protection for female employees in the workplace and eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace, and effectively protecting the legitimate rights and interests of female employees. As of the end of 2024, 640 billion yuan in loans have been provided to support 8.49 million women in realizing their entrepreneurial dreams. Since 2012, the proportion of women in employment has remained at around 43%. The fifth economic census data shows that women account for 42.6% of employees in government agencies, institutions, and state-owned holding enterprises, an increase of 3.6 percentage points compared to the fourth economic census. The vast number of women strive for excellence. Women account for 34% of national "moral models," and 30.9% of "the most beautiful people" and "national teaching and educating models." 1,821 women have been awarded the title of National Model Worker and Advanced Worker, 1,957 women have been awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal, 5,001 women have been awarded the National March 8th Red Banner Bearer title, and 6,489 women have been awarded the National Jinguo Construction Pioneer title. (See Special Column 10)
Striving for the lead in scientific and technological innovation. Implementing the "Jinguo Action for Scientific and Technological Innovation," formulating the "Several Measures on Supporting Female Scientific and Technological Talents to Play a Greater Role in Scientific and Technological Innovation," and proposing 16 specific measures such as supporting female scientific and technological talents to undertake national science and technology plan projects, participate in scientific and technological decision-making, and improve the evaluation and incentive mechanism for female scientific and technological talents. The age limit for female applicants for Categories A, B, and C of the National Natural Science Foundation Youth Scientist Project is appropriately relaxed, extending by 3 years, 2 years, and 5 years, respectively, compared to male applicants. Relying on platforms such as the Zhongguancun Forum (中关村论坛), the Pujiang Innovation Forum (浦江创新论坛), and the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, setting up science and technology women's summits and forums, and continuously holding Jinguo Craftsman Forums and high-level female science and technology talent training courses to build a platform for female science and technology talents to exchange learning, transform achievements, and serve society. Women account for 45.8% of scientific and technological workers. They are tackling "tough nuts" in the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, breaking through "bottleneck" problems, concentrating on tackling key problems, and bravely climbing peaks, making important contributions to promoting the construction of a strong science and technology country and accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement. (See Special Column 11)
Standing at the forefront in rural revitalization. Implementing the "Jinguo Action for Rural Revitalization," strengthening the training and empowerment of female farmers. Since 2017, the "High-Quality Farmer Training Program" has trained 2.241 million female farmers; from 2022 to 2024, the "Leading Goose" project for cultivating leaders in rural industrial revitalization has trained 12,000 women. The vast number of women are showing their talents in rural revitalization. Women account for 100 of the first batch of rural craftsmen masters identified by the "Double Hundred Double Thousand" cultivation project for rural craftsmen, accounting for 36.6%; in the finals of the first National Farmers Skills Competition, women accounted for 69.5% of the winning players; as of the end of 2024, there were 134,000 female agricultural technology extension workers with technical titles, accounting for 35.4%. (See Special Column 12)
Blooming in the digital economy. The Outline for Improving National Digital Literacy and Skills and the Digital Village Development Action Plan have been promulgated, proposing measures such as carrying out digital literacy education and skills training for women and developing Jinguo e-commerce brands. The vast number of women are adapting to the requirements of the digital age and actively participating in the development of the digital economy. In 2024, a total of 14,147 women obtained artificial intelligence trainer vocational skill level certificates, accounting for 42.3%. Women account for more than half of the entrepreneurs in the Internet field. Women account for about one-third of the employees in new business forms such as digital trade, e-commerce, and live streaming, and the gender dividend of the digital economy is continuously being released. (See Special Column 13)
(II) Participating Equally in Whole-Process People's Democracy
China attaches importance to improving women's participation in the management of national, economic, cultural, and social affairs in the process of promoting whole-process people's democracy. Women enjoy equal political rights, actively participate in democratic practice, and actively contribute their strength.
Exercising state power through the National People's Congress. The proportion of female representatives in the People's Congress has been continuously increasing. In 2023, there were 790 female representatives in the 14th National People's Congress, accounting for 26.5%, an increase of 3.1 and 1.6 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th National People's Congresses, respectively; the proportion of female representatives in the people's congresses at the national county and township levels was 31.64% and 32.36%, respectively. Female representatives of the People's Congress perform their duties in accordance with the law, listen to and reflect the opinions and suggestions of women and all parties. From 2018 to 2025, female representatives of the National People's Congress put forward a total of 29,328 proposals, criticisms, and opinions, accounting for 42.3% of the total number of proposals. (See Special Column 14)
Offering policy advice and suggestions in various consultative conferences of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). The proportion of female members in the CPPCC National Committee and local committees is on the rise. In 2023, there were 487 female members in the 14th CPPCC National Committee, accounting for 22.4%, an increase of 4.6 and 2 percentage points compared to the 12th and 13th sessions, respectively; there were 5,401 female members in the national provincial CPPCCs, accounting for 27.36% of the total number of provincial CPPCC members. Female CPPCC members conscientiously perform their duties and play an important role in political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs. Since the 14th session, female members of the National Committee of the CPPCC have submitted 4,282 proposals, accounting for 26.6% of the total number of proposals.
Actively participating in decision-making and management. Importance is attached to cultivating and selecting female cadres and developing female party members. The Outline for the Construction of National Party and Government Leading Bodies and the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women are formulated and implemented, and quantitative and proportional requirements are put forward for the allocation of female cadres and female heads of departments, so as to achieve full allocation while ensuring quality. The proportion of female party members in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and delegates to the Party Congress is gradually increasing. In 2024, female party members accounted for 30.9%, an increase of 7.1 percentage points compared with 2012; female party members accounted for 27% of the delegates to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012. Female judges account for 42.3% of the total number of judges in the country, female procurators account for 43.78% of the total number of procurators in the country, and female jurors account for 51.5% of the total number of jurors in the country.
Extensively participating in grassroots democratic construction. In the work of village committee elections, effective measures are taken to increase the proportion of women in village committee members. In 2022, women accounted for 26.1% of village committee members, an increase of 4 percentage points compared with 2012; women accounted for 54.3% of neighborhood committee members, an increase of 5.5 percentage points compared with 2012. Female employees actively participate in the democratic management of enterprises. In 2023, female employee directors accounted for 37.7% of employee directors in enterprise boards of directors, an increase of 11.4 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee supervisors accounted for 41.9% of employee supervisors in enterprise supervisory boards, an increase of 14.9 percentage points compared with 2012; female employee representatives accounted for 34.2% of employee representative congresses, an increase of 4.4 percentage points compared with 2012. A total of 431,000 women's councils have been established in urban and rural communities to extensively consult on public affairs involving the vital interests of women.
(III) Showing elegance in the prosperity and development of culture
In promoting the construction of a strong socialist cultural country, China attaches importance to giving play to the important role of women in creating spiritual wealth, vigorously cultivates female cultural talents, and the vast number of women actively play a role in cultural innovation and creativity, inheriting cultural genes and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
Bursting with vitality on the front line of spiritual and cultural communication. The vast number of women have become an important force in cultural prosperity and development, and are playing an increasingly important role in cultural creation, cultural communication, and cultural research. Female artists have created a large number of excellent works, including Peking Opera "Mother," ballet "Yimeng," essay collection "My Altay," TV series "When the Flowers Bloom," film "Beautiful Life," documentary "Aunt Haiyun," variety shows "Flowers Bloom" and "Riding the Wind 2024," and short drama "The World of Aunts," shaping the image of women in the new era. By the end of 2023, there were 456,900 female employees in the national radio, television, and online audio-visual industries, accounting for 43.14%. In the 2024 senior professional title evaluation for the news series organized by the National Press and Publication Administration, women accounted for 44.1% of those awarded the title of senior professional and 50.6% of those awarded the title of associate senior professional. Women account for 27.5% of the key talent projects in the field of publicity and ideology and culture, of which women account for 45.2% of the selected personnel in the National Cultural Masters Project and 42.5% of the selected personnel in the Young Cultural Masters Project. The vast number of women vigorously spread and practice the core socialist values.
Showing advantages in the "living" inheritance of national culture. Women inject new vitality into national culture through skills inheritance, cultural innovation, and communication. Women account for 25% of the 3,997 national-level representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage recognized by the state. 51,000 trainees have participated in the "Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Group Research and Training Program," of which women account for 57%. Special projects such as the Chinese Traditional Craft Revitalization Plan and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Assisting Rural Revitalization are carried out. A large number of female leaders have transformed local natural resources and local cultural resources into cultural products and cultural industries. A large number of female leaders have transformed local natural resources and local cultural resources into cultural products and cultural industries. 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Steadfastly fulfill international obligations. Fulfill various international conventions such as the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women," submit national implementation reports in a timely manner, actively participate in reviews, and promote gender equality and women's development. Actively practice the "Beijing Declaration" and the "Platform for Action," continuously improve the living and development conditions of women, achieve the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda poverty reduction and health-related goals ahead of schedule, and provide the world with Chinese solutions for protecting women's human rights.
Lead and promote multilateral and regional women's development agendas. At the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, the "Global Artificial Intelligence Governance Initiative" was proposed, emphasizing the avoidance of gender discrimination in the development of artificial intelligence; promoted the adoption of the "Strengthening International Cooperation on Capacity Building in Artificial Intelligence" resolution by the 78th United Nations General Assembly, emphasizing ensuring that everyone fully enjoys the benefits of artificial intelligence, improving digital inclusion, achieving gender equality, and enhancing the empowerment of women and girls. Since 2012, 29 women's conferences have been held within the cooperation frameworks of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the Group of Twenty (G20), the BRICS countries, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), China-ASEAN, China-Africa, China-Arab States, China-Central Asia, and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, deeply participating in women's field cooperation under relevant mechanisms, focusing on topics such as poverty reduction and development, employment and entrepreneurship, education empowerment, and anti-epidemic cooperation, conducting in-depth experience sharing and discussion dialogues, creating cooperation and exchange platforms for empowering women, and putting forward Chinese propositions on promoting the comprehensive development of women and promoting inclusive and sustainable development.
(II) Deepen Women's Development Cooperation and Exchanges
China will organically integrate the deepening of women's development cooperation into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the "South-South Cooperation" framework to jointly promote women's sustainable development.
Promote the development of women in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road." Actively promote the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," with "Silk Road E-commerce" and other initiatives bringing employment opportunities and creating development conditions for women in co-building countries; launching the "Women's Digital Skills Enhancement Program" in Southeast Asian countries to help women's employment and entrepreneurship. With the theme of "Gathering Women's Strength to Jointly Build the 'Belt and Road'," a series of activities have been held in China and co-building countries for 10 consecutive years to help women in co-building countries become supporters, participants, promoters, and beneficiaries of the "Belt and Road" construction.
Help "South-South Cooperation" women's poverty reduction and development. Support developing countries in improving the environment for women's survival and development, implement 100 "Maternal and Child Health Projects" and 100 "Happy Campus Projects," and launch "small and beautiful" livelihood projects that empower women and girls, such as housing, rural roads, and skills training. Using the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, more than 40 million US dollars of women's field projects have been implemented in more than 20 countries. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Special Fund invested 12 million yuan to support the implementation of women's development projects. Juncao technology helps women in 106 countries to find employment through foreign aid training and technical assistance. (See Special Column 22)
Deepen international cooperation in women's capacity building. Continue to increase the training of women in developing countries. Since 2018, support for training projects on women and children's themes in developing countries has been increased, and more than 100 training projects such as the Maternal and Child Health Promotion Seminar under the Global Development Initiative and the "Seminar on the Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda for Developing Countries - Women and Children Special" have been specially established and implemented, and academic degree programs on women's leadership and social development have been carried out, with a cumulative training of nearly 4,000 outstanding talents in the women's field. The Global Women's Development Cooperation and Exchange Training Base was established in Beijing (北京) to tailor women's empowerment projects for developing countries, and Sino-foreign women's training (exchange) centers were established in cooperation with 15 countries. Carry out international cooperation in vocational education, and "Luban Workshops" have cumulatively trained 5,944 female students, accounting for 23.25% of the total number of students.
Solidly promote people-to-people exchanges in the women's field. Actively develop global partnerships and carry out friendly exchanges with women's organizations and institutions in more than 140 countries in an all-round and multi-channel manner. Conduct dialogue and exchanges with foreign female politicians, heads of state, and government ministers, and send high-level delegations to visit foreign countries, creating a new situation in high-level female diplomacy. Deepen women's exchanges under the people-to-people exchange mechanisms between China and relevant countries, hold special seminars on the themes of women's entrepreneurship, economic empowerment, women's education, anti-domestic violence, and family culture, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in women's rights, eliminating the digital gender gap, and promoting women's participation in scientific and technological innovation and sustainable development. Carry out a series of activities of "Female Diplomats in China See China" to share China's vivid practices in women's participation in economic development and grassroots governance, and exchange experiences and practices in promoting gender equality. Support women's participation in cross-cultural exchanges, with women accounting for 80% of dispatched Chinese teachers and 90% of international Chinese education volunteers.
(III) Actively Respond to Global Challenges
China supports women in playing an active role in maintaining peace and security and responding to challenges such as climate change, public health crises, and humanitarian disasters.
Support women's participation in maintaining peace and security. Take practical actions to implement the UN Security Council resolution "on Women, Peace and Security" and support women in playing an important role in conflict prevention, peace negotiations and reconstruction of their homes. In 2022, the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund launched a senior female talent training program to promote gender equality in senior positions in UN peacekeeping operations. China has more than 1,200 female peacekeeping officers and soldiers and more than 100 female peacekeeping police officers participating in medical support, liaison and coordination, mine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal, patrol observation, and promotion of gender equality and women's protection. (See Special Column 23)
Empower women to respond to climate change. Continue to hold South-South cooperation training courses on climate change, implement a gender-balanced enrollment policy, and since 2022, nearly 300 female officials, experts, and scholars from developing countries' climate change projects have come to China to participate in training. From 2012 to 2024, nearly 100 foreign aid training projects in the fields of meteorological monitoring, forecasting, and services were undertaken, and women accounted for 36.72% of the trainees. Donated 5,000 sets of solar household photovoltaic power generation systems and 10,000 clean stoves to Myanmar (缅甸) to reduce the harm of indoor air pollution to women's health and promote low-carbon transformation. The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Fund supports Cambodia (柬埔寨) in carrying out climate action gender mainstreaming projects to enhance the climate adaptability and resilience of rural women.
Pay attention to the needs of women in international humanitarian assistance. Pay close attention to women and children in participating in alleviating the migrant and refugee crisis, encourage women to register as recipients of family assistance materials, give special care to pregnant and lactating women, and the Congo (Brazzaville) project sets pregnant and lactating women as beneficiaries, effectively reducing the malnutrition rate of women and children. In 2023, more than 120,000 hygiene product packages worth 1.5 million US dollars were provided to Rohingya women and girls sheltering in Bangladesh (孟加拉国), benefiting more than 60,000 women and girls.
Concluding Remarks
The pursuit of gender equality is a great cause. The spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement of Chinese women in the new era blooms on the road of striving forward by people of all ethnic groups across the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党); the glorious course of the development of women's cause in China in the new era is deeply integrated into the historical process of achieving the "two centenary goals" under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Chinese women have never enjoyed such great opportunities to shine in life and realize their dreams as they do today, and the cause of Chinese women has never had such broad development space as it does today.
At present, China is comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, which requires gathering the strength of hundreds of millions of women and promoting gender equality and the comprehensive development of women at a higher level. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, China will unswervingly follow the path of women's development with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the basic national policy of gender equality, implement the Outline for the Development of Chinese Women in depth, improve women's comprehensive quality, actively create conditions and build platforms for women's participation in economic and social development, protect women's legitimate rights and interests, and let women walk at the forefront of the times.
In today's world, promoting gender equality and the comprehensive development of women faces both opportunities and arduous tasks. All countries still need to work hard to create a peaceful and tranquil environment for women's survival and development, eliminate problems such as violence, discrimination, and poverty, and effectively respond to the adverse effects of climate change; continue to empower women's development, promote women to enjoy more and better opportunities and play a more important role in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation; adhere to true multilateralism, steadfastly fulfill international obligations, and promote exchanges and mutual learning among women in various countries and connect people's hearts. China is willing to work with all countries in the world to join hands, accelerate action, create a better future for women's development, and compose a new chapter in the development of the global women's cause!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), September 19)
Return to TopWriting a New Chapter in the Sinicization and Modernization of Marxism
Hu Heping (胡和平), Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) in charge of daily work
The publication of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" is a major event in the political life of the Party and the country, and also a major event in the process of the Party's theoretical innovation. The Central Propaganda Department (中央宣传部) (State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室)) worked with the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Central Committee (中央党史和文献研究院) and the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局), with a high sense of responsibility and mission, rigorously, meticulously, and standardized, adhering to excellence, and effectively enhancing the seriousness, authority, comprehensiveness, and systematicness of the editing work, and completed this major political task with high standards and high quality. The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" is an authoritative work that comprehensively and systematically reflects the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Since its publication and distribution, it has aroused strong repercussions at home and abroad, and a new upsurge of studying, publicizing, and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is rising. By carefully studying and reading this work, we have a deeper understanding that this thought deepens the understanding of the laws governing the Communist Party's governance, socialist construction, and the development of human society from a new perspective, and opens up a new realm of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism; we have a deeper understanding that this thought is a constantly developing and open theory, with the distinct character of keeping pace with the times, adhering to principles and innovating, and the grand pattern and atmosphere of inclusiveness and drawing on the strengths of others, and constantly writing a new chapter in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
First, adhere to the "two combinations" and achieve new developments in Marxist theory. Marxism did not end the truth, but opened up the road to truth. In leading the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to advance the cause of the Party and the country, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly summarized the historical experience of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and with a high degree of theoretical consciousness and theoretical confidence, clearly put forward the "two combinations," especially the "second combination," pointing out the fundamental way to promote the Party's theoretical innovation, revealing the inevitable path to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics, which is a major theoretical creation with landmark significance in the history of Marxist development. It is precisely in adhering to the "two combinations" that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era has continued to enrich and develop, constantly climbing new ideological peaks, and timely and scientifically answering the new questions raised by the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, showing a more powerful and convincing force of truth. The "six must adheres" are proposed, giving new era connotations to the Marxist worldview and methodology; the development of new quality productive forces according to local conditions is proposed, developing the Marxist theory of productive forces; further comprehensively deepening reform is proposed, developing the Marxist thought on the adaptation of the relations of production to the productive forces and the superstructure to the economic base; adhering to the Party's leadership over culture is proposed, developing the Marxist theory of ideology; Xi Jinping's important thought on Party building and his important thought on the Party's self-revolution are proposed, developing the Marxist theory of Party building, and so on. Studying the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" can enable us to more deeply and systematically grasp the new developments and new contents of the Party's innovative theories since the publication of the fourth volume, and more truly feel the vigorous vitality of contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st century Marxism.
Second, rooted in great practice, leading new breakthroughs in the construction of Chinese-style modernization. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is a powerful ideological weapon that has been tested in practice and is full of practical power. Since the new era, under the guidance of this thought, the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core has united and led the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, carrying forward the past, forging ahead, and constantly realizing innovations and breakthroughs in theory and practice, successfully promoting and expanding Chinese-style modernization. Our Party has continuously deepened its understanding, continuously improved its strategies, and continuously enriched its practice, promoting a series of transformative practices, achieving a series of breakthrough progress, and achieving a series of landmark achievements, promoting the Party and the country to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes, providing a more complete institutional guarantee, a more solid material foundation, and a more proactive spiritual force for Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization has also opened up broad space for the Party's theoretical innovation. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has summarized and deeply elaborated the theory of Chinese-style modernization, continuously deepening the understanding of the connotation and essence of Chinese-style modernization, clarifying the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles of Chinese-style modernization, which is the latest major achievement of scientific socialism, pointing out a broad road for building a strong country and national rejuvenation. The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" is both a theoretical work and the essence of practice. Studying this work is of great significance for deeply grasping the laws of Chinese-style modernization construction from the combination of theory and practice, stimulating the spirit of historical initiative, and uniting and striving for the realization of the Party's central task in the new era and new journey.
Third, strengthen cultural confidence and inspire a new atmosphere for the inheritance and development of Chinese culture. The more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization is the deep foundation for us to take the Chinese road, and it is also the foundation of our confidence. The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is also a historical process of the revitalization of Chinese civilization. The reason why Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the essence of Chinese culture and the Chinese spirit of the times lies in adhering to the Chinese cultural stance, adhering to using the past for the present, weeding through the old to bring forth the new, using Marxism to activate the vital excellent factors in Chinese outstanding traditional culture and giving them new era connotations, so that the soul of Marxism and the root of Chinese outstanding traditional culture are interconnected, most profoundly and powerfully reflecting our spiritual independence and cultural subjectivity. Since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, with the in-depth advancement of cultural construction in the new era, the cultural confidence of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country has become more distinct, the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation has become more consolidated, and the broad atmosphere of the enduring Chinese civilization has become more prominent. In particular, the formal proposal of Xi Jinping's thought on culture has raised the banner of our Party's culture on the new journey, becoming an important milestone in China's cultural construction, marking that our Party's understanding of the laws of socialist cultural construction has reached a new height, and indicating that our Party's historical confidence and cultural confidence have reached a new height. Studying the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" can more deeply feel General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) cherishment and love for Chinese culture and his profound thinking on Chinese civilization, inspiring us to cultivate cultural feelings, strengthen cultural responsibility, and better continue the Chinese cultural heritage in creative transformation and innovative development.
Fourth, adhere to a global vision and expand new paths for the development and progress of human civilization. Our Party is a party that seeks happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and also a party that seeks progress for mankind and great harmony for the world. Today's world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and human society is facing the historical choice of peace or war, prosperity or decline, unity or confrontation. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era adheres to the right path of peace and development, cooperation and win-win results, clearly proposing to take building a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty as the goal, taking promoting global governance of consultation, joint construction, and sharing as the path to realization, taking practicing the common values of all mankind as the universal observance, taking promoting the construction of a new type of international relations as the basic support, taking the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative as the strategic guidance, and taking high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as the practical platform, making the concept and vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind more clear and perceptible, more scientific and complete, and more mature and feasible, systematically answering the era proposition of "what kind of world to build and how to build this world," and providing a series of Chinese solutions with major symbolic significance for solving global problems. This thought leads Chinese-style modernization to achieve major innovations in the world's modernization theory and practice, points out the direction of human civilization progress, shows a new picture different from the Western modernization model, creates a new form of human civilization, and is the common intellectual wealth of all mankind. Studying the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" is of great significance for deeply understanding our Party's internationalist spirit and deep global feelings, and promoting the construction of a better world with practical actions.
In the next step, we will, in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee (党中央), carefully organize the study and use of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China," and continue to promote the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to go deeper and more solid. We will focus on improving the pertinence and effectiveness of learning and education, give play to the exemplary and leading role of the theoretical learning center group of the Party committee (Party group) (党委（党组）理论学习中心组), guide the vast number of cadres and the masses to read the original works, learn the original texts, and understand the principles, and constantly enhance the consciousness and firmness of implementation. We will continue to focus on academic foundation, practical orientation, international vision, and historical dimension to deepen the systematic and rational interpretation of research. We will widely carry out differentiated and precise publicity and lectures, vigorously promote the innovation of communication concepts, content, discourse, forms, and methods, and comprehensively enhance the attractiveness and appeal of publicity and popularization. We will continue to promote the translation, publication, publicity, and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) works, so that the international community can better understand our Party, our country, and our new era.
Adhering to Principles and Innovating: The Distinctive Features of the Fifth Volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China"
Qu Qingshan (曲青山), President of the Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Central Committee (中央党史和文献研究院)
With the approval of the Party Central Committee (党中央), the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" has been officially published and distributed, which is a major event in the political life of the Party and the country. The Party History and Literature Research Institute of the Central Committee (中央党史和文献研究院) feels very honored to be able to participate in the editing work. This important work is an authoritative work that comprehensively and systematically reflects the latest achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. By carefully studying this important work, we deeply realize that adhering to principles and innovating is a distinctive feature that runs through the entire book, fully demonstrating the theoretical character and unique charm of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Adhering to principles and innovating is one of the "six must adheres" summarized, refined, and profoundly expounded in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, is an important embodiment of the position, viewpoint, and method of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, is an important aspect of its theoretical essence, and is also an important ideological method for our Party to govern the country in the new era. Adhering to principles and innovating requires us to treat science with a scientific attitude, pursue truth with the spirit of truth, not forget our ancestors, always take the right path, be good at breaking new ground, guide new practices with new theories, and constantly open up new realms of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" focuses on demonstrating General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) adherence to principles and innovation, profoundly answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, and promoting the latest achievements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Adhering to principles and innovating runs through the entire book and is reflected in all aspects.
Regarding promoting the Party's theoretical innovation, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly expounded the basic connotation and practical significance of the "two combinations"; pointed out that the "two combinations" are the fundamental way to promote the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and are the greatest magic weapon for our success, and the "second combination" is a profound summary of our Party's historical experience in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism; emphasized that we must always adhere to the soul and root of theoretical innovation, effectively connect the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of Chinese outstanding traditional culture, converge into new theoretical advantages, and constantly climb new ideological peaks.
Regarding promoting Chinese-style modernization, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly defined the mission and task of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization; summarized and formed the Chinese characteristics, essential requirements, and major principles of Chinese-style modernization, and initially constructed the theoretical system of Chinese-style modernization; emphasized guarding the foundation, source, root, and soul of Chinese-style modernization, ensuring the correct direction of Chinese-style modernization, and at the same time, putting innovation in a prominent position in the overall national development, and actively recognizing, responding to, and seeking changes.
Regarding further comprehensively deepening reform and expanding high-level opening up, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly defined the theme, major principles, major measures, and fundamental guarantees for further comprehensively deepening reform; proposed promoting deep-level reform and high-quality development with high-level opening up; emphasized that reform should have both the strong determination to remain unchanged and unswerving, and the courage and boldness to dare to innovate and tackle tough problems, neither taking the old road of closure and rigidity, nor taking the wrong road of changing flags and banners.
Regarding developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and achieving high-quality development, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, theoretically summarizing the basic connotation, essential characteristics, and development paths of new quality productive forces, and emphasized that developing new quality productive forces is the inherent requirement and important focus of promoting high-quality development.
Regarding promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) creatively proposed implementing the strategy of invigorating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, and the strategy of innovation-driven development in a coordinated manner, and promoting the development of education, scientific and technological innovation, and talent cultivation in an integrated manner, forming a multiplier effect for promoting high-quality development.
Regarding vigorously developing whole-process people's democracy, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized vigorously developing whole-process people's democracy and improving the system of people being the masters of the country, so as to widely gather strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization, and clearly proposed taking forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line of the Party's ethnic work in the new era and the main line of various tasks in ethnic areas, so as to promote the high-quality development of the Party's ethnic work.
Regarding building a higher-level rule of law in China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized adhering to the comprehensive rule of law and strengthening the construction of the rule of law in foreign-related matters, so as to create favorable legal conditions and an external environment for the steady and long-term development of Chinese-style modernization.
Regarding developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed adhering to the Party's leadership over culture, better undertaking new cultural missions, and accelerating the construction of a cultural power, profoundly expounding the outstanding characteristics of Chinese civilization, emphasizing raising high the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and continuing the Chinese cultural heritage in creative transformation and innovative development.
Regarding implementing the people-centered development ideology and continuously improving the quality of people's lives, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed that Chinese-style modernization is people-centered, emphasized promoting common prosperity to achieve more obvious substantive progress in promoting high-quality development, and proposed supporting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality population development.
Regarding comprehensively promoting the construction of a beautiful China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized and generalized the major relationships that need to be handled well in promoting ecological civilization construction, and proposed comprehensively promoting the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature with the construction of a beautiful China.
Regarding promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed promoting the high-quality development of social work in the new era, ensuring a new development pattern with a new security pattern, and emphasized improving the grassroots governance system.
Regarding comprehensively improving the modernization level of national defense and the military, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed comprehensively strengthening military governance, promoting the high-quality development of our army with high-level governance, proposed comprehensively enhancing strategic capabilities in emerging fields, and promoting the efficient integration and two-way driving of new quality productive forces and new quality combat forces.
Regarding creating a new situation in major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) systematically expounded the rich connotation and practical requirements of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, proposed gathering the strength of the "Global South" to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind; proposed the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative; proposed working together to embark on the road of modernization, promoting the realization of a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity, and building an open, inclusive, interconnected, and common development world and other major propositions.
Regarding the in-depth advancement of the new great project of Party building in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has creatively proposed and profoundly expounded on major propositions such as solving the unique problems of a large party, improving the system of comprehensive and strict Party governance, and eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption; comprehensively elaborated on the practical requirements for in-depth advancement of the Party's self-revolution; emphasized adhering to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, keeping pace with the times, and upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, continuously deepening the understanding of the regularity of the Party's self-revolution, deeply advancing comprehensive and strict Party governance, and continuously achieving self-transcendence in reform and innovation while upholding fundamental principles, so as to provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.
The series of new ideas, viewpoints, and conclusions put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) closely revolve around the theme of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, closely focus on the central task of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization, keep pace with the times, conform to the development of practice, reflect the will of the people, profoundly answer a series of major contemporary issues in the development of the Party and the country from the combination of theory and practice, further enrich and develop the Party's theoretical innovation achievements, further deepen the understanding of the laws governing the Communist Party's governance, the laws governing socialist construction, and the laws governing the development of human society, deepen the understanding of the regularity of the Party's theoretical innovation, and compose a new chapter in the sinicization of Marxism in the new era.
Striving for Perfection to Improve Efficiency and Making Every Effort to Do a Good Job in International Communication
Du Zhanyuan (杜占元), Director of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局)
With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党中央), the Chinese and English versions of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) have been published and distributed at home and abroad. Under the overall guidance of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) has undertaken the major political task of translating, publishing, distributing, and promoting "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》), and feels deeply honored and responsible.
Since the multilingual version launch ceremony was held in Frankfurt, Germany (德国法兰克福) in October 2014, "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) has been published in 5 volumes and 42 languages, distributed in more than 180 countries and regions, and entered more than 1,700 important libraries, more than 500 mainstream bookstores, and online platforms overseas. Launch ceremonies, reader conferences, seminars, and other international promotion activities have been held in more than 40 countries on 5 continents, and it has been widely welcomed by politicians, experts, scholars, and readers from all walks of life around the world. It has become one of the most translated, widely distributed, and influential works by a leader in the world today. It is an authoritative reader and important document for the international community to understand Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), understand the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), understand China in the new era, and understand Chinese-style modernization. Over the past 10 years, the publication and distribution of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) has opened up a new realm for systematically promoting and interpreting the Party's innovative theories and the strategy of governing China in the new era, written a new chapter in the global dissemination of contemporary Chinese thought and theory, and established a new milestone in the history of Sino-foreign cultural exchanges.
The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) vividly records the vivid practice of the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, coordinating the two major situations at home and abroad, and promoting the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country to take solid steps. It focuses on demonstrating the latest achievements of the Party's theoretical innovation, fully reflects the Chinese wisdom of promoting the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, and has important world significance and contemporary value. The publication and distribution of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) will help inspire the people of the whole country to unite and strive to achieve the grand blueprint drawn by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), and will also help the international community better understand the theoretical system and practical achievements of Chinese-style modernization, understand the unique contribution of Chinese civilization to the development and progress of human civilization, and understand China's global vision of promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system and working with all countries to promote the world's modernization process.
In the translation, publication, distribution, and promotion of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》), China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) has concentrated the strength of the entire bureau and gathered resources from all parties to implement this primary task, established a major special working group and a special coordination mechanism, strictly implemented the publication process specifications for the works of leaders, continuously summarized international communication experience, and adhered to striving for perfection, and integrated the requirements of the highest standards, highest quality, and highest level into all aspects and the entire process of the work.
Adhere to integrating Chinese and foreign cultures and accurately conveying the spirit, and improve the level of translation. Establish a strict translation and publication workflow, establish a translation expert group led by the translation force of China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) and gathering high-level experts at home and abroad, comprehensively use translation methods such as literal translation and free translation to carry out the foreign translation and transformation of Chinese discourse, ensure that the translation accurately expresses the ideological essence and clearly reflects the language style, and fully demonstrates the ideological power and demeanor charm of the leaders of a large party and a large country.
Adhere to rigorous norms and the pursuit of excellence to ensure publication quality. Transfer key personnel to participate in the work of the Chinese editing group, closely follow the cognitive characteristics of foreign audiences, and make targeted adjustments to add annotations, indexes, and other content in foreign language translations. Carefully do a good job in publication process and quality management with strict standards, organize senior editors and proofreading experts to carry out scientific and rigorous review and proofreading, and take effective measures to ensure printing quality and progress, and create high-quality works of Chinese publishing.
Adhere to precise and effective, three-dimensional and diverse methods to expand distribution coverage. On the first day of its release, the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) has been simultaneously put on shelves for display and sale in major bookstores in 31 provinces and key cities and in the Hong Kong and Macao (港澳) regions. At present, it has achieved full coverage of more than 3,000 retail bookstores across the country, postal branch outlets in central cities, high-speed rail stations, airports, and major e-commerce platforms, and is displayed in important activities and exhibitions. Make good use of the global overseas distribution network of Chinese publications, promote the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) to enter the mainstream distribution channels in countries such as the United States (美国), the United Kingdom (英国), France (法国), Japan (日本), Singapore (新加坡), and Egypt (埃及), and the precise distribution work for overseas online platforms, physical bookstores, Chinese bookstores, important libraries, cultural and educational institutions, and other channels is also being fully promoted. Continue to expand international book fair platforms and diversified channels such as digital distribution, smooth international logistics, and continuously improve the effectiveness of overseas distribution.
Adhere to comprehensive measures and segmented communication to do a good job in promotion and promotion. Organize media outlets under the bureau to carry out various forms of external promotion of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) in 15 languages, launch Chinese and English online special topics, and publish graphic reports and various types of integrated media products on multilingual websites and new media platforms at home and abroad. Strengthen the business linkage of media communication, international publishing, think tank research, cultural exchanges, and training, and do a good job in promotion and interpretation in an all-round and multi-angle manner, and continuously enhance communication power and influence.
At present, the distribution and promotion of the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) is in a critical period of continuous advancement, and the multilingual translation and publication work is also being carried out according to plan. China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration (中国外文局) will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央) and the spirit of this meeting, improve its political position, enhance its sense of responsibility in the new era, study and promote the fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》), accelerate the multilingual translation and publication and international cooperation and publication of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important works, continuously expand the coverage of overseas distribution countries and groups, organize various forms of global promotion activities, and create a good international environment and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization.
Accurately Understand and Grasp the Theme and Main Line of Building a Strong Country and National Rejuvenation
Lin Jianhua (林建华), Party Secretary of the Institute for Chinese-style Modernization, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院中国式现代化研究院)
The fifth volume of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (《习近平谈治国理政》) runs through the theme and main line of promoting Chinese-style modernization, with rich connotations, profoundness, and rigorous logic. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) systematically and scientifically answered the major practical questions of what Chinese-style modernization is and how to promote Chinese-style modernization, continued to profoundly answer the major contemporary questions of what kind of socialist modern strong country to build and how to build a socialist modern strong country, initially constructed and enriched and developed the theoretical system of Chinese-style modernization, and provided fundamental guidelines and action guidelines for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization in the new era and on the new journey.
First, Chinese-style modernization is hard-won and must be cherished and continuously expanded and deepened. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The development process of human society is tortuous and fluctuating, and the process of exploring the road to modernization in various countries is full of hardships." The 18th century saw major inventions such as the steam engine, which led to the first industrial revolution and opened the process of modernization of human society. Since then, electrification and informationization have successively led to the second and third industrial revolutions. Today, the trends of intelligence and digitalization are becoming increasingly prominent, giving rise to the fourth industrial revolution, and modernization has a speed, breadth, and depth that is different from the past.
China's modernization did not fall from the sky, but grew out of the land of China. History shows that the history of our Party uniting and leading the people to pursue national rejuvenation is also a history of continuous exploration of the road to modernization; building a socialist modern country is a consistent theme from the first five-year plan to the fourteenth five-year plan after the founding of New China; Chinese-style modernization is a major achievement made by our Party leading the people of all ethnic groups across the country through arduous efforts and at a huge cost. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Chinese-style modernization is the answer we have given to the major historical question of how to awaken the 'sleeping lion' and realize national rejuvenation, and it is choosing our own path and doing our own thing." In this regard, "we must cherish it, always adhere to it, and continuously expand and deepen it."
Second, the theory of Chinese-style modernization has pointed out a broad road for comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大): "From now on, the central task of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to comprehensively build a socialist modern strong country, achieve the second centenary goal, and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization." Thus, the central task of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the nation with Chinese-style modernization has become a high degree of consensus among all Chinese Communists and the Chinese people to move towards the future, and has taken root in their hearts.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) put forward the scientific concept of "Chinese-style modernization," clearly summarized the exploration path, Chinese characteristics, essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization, as well as the major principles that must be firmly grasped and a series of major relationships that need to be properly handled, and profoundly revealed the historical basis, scientific connotation, unique attributes, basic principles, and scientific methodology of Chinese-style modernization. The theory of Chinese-style modernization summarized and deeply elaborated by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) is both a theoretical summary and a practical requirement, making Chinese-style modernization clearer, more scientific, and more perceptible and feasible. "Chinese-style modernization has goals, plans, and strategies, and it will definitely be achieved. We will move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner." Practice has proved that Chinese-style modernization is feasible and stable, and is the only correct road for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation, and is a broad road.
Third, Chinese-style modernization has opened up new broad space for human society. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly pointed out the difference between the old road and the new road of Western modernization and Chinese-style modernization. Chinese-style modernization abandons the old road of Western modernization centered on capital, modernization of polarization, modernization of materialism expansion, and modernization of foreign expansion and plunder, and takes a new road of organic unity of material modernization, spiritual modernization, governance modernization, ecological modernization, and human modernization. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that develops new quality productive forces and achieves high-quality development. Thus, Chinese-style modernization breaks the myth of "modernization = Westernization," which is a major transcendence of Western modernization theory and practice. Chinese-style modernization shows another completely new picture of modernization, providing a new choice for developing countries to move towards modernization in independence and self-reliance.
Chinese-style modernization embodies the advanced essence of scientific socialism and is the latest major achievement of scientific socialism. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) revealed the fundamental nature of Chinese-style modernization and emphasized that Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Chinese-style modernization aims to comprehensively build a strong, democratic, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern country, and build a socialist modern country with leading comprehensive national strength and international influence.
Chinese-style modernization draws on and absorbs all outstanding achievements of human civilization, represents the direction of development of human civilization progress, is a completely new form of human civilization, and provides a completely new modernization model for the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) not only analyzed the reality of modernization, but also understood the inevitability of modernization. Modernization should be a just and reasonable modernization, a people-centered modernization, a pluralistic and inclusive modernization, a mutually beneficial and cooperative modernization, an open and win-win modernization, a common prosperity modernization, an eco-friendly modernization, a peaceful development modernization, and a peaceful and secure modernization; it should highlight the people-centered nature of the direction of modernization, explore the diversity of the road to modernization, maintain the sustainability of the modernization process, enhance the inclusiveness of modernization achievements, and ensure the firmness of modernization leadership, aiming to promote the construction of a better world and build a community with a shared future for mankind, so that Chinese-style modernization and human society can open up and have new broad space. This is a major innovation of the Chinese Communists in the new era in the theory and practice of world modernization, and is a new contribution to mankind's exploration of a better social system.
Return to TopIn recent days, a major ideological and political education course themed "Promoting the Great Spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and Being Proud Chinese People" was launched for primary, secondary, and university students nationwide.
This "Same Ideological and Political Education Course" was jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education (教育部), the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the People's Daily (人民日报社), and the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局), and organized by People's Daily Online (人民网). It was divided into four parts: "United as One" for primary school courses, "The Mainstay" for junior high school courses, "Spiritual Monument" for senior high school (secondary vocational) courses, and "Responsibility of a Great Power" for university courses. It was launched sequentially on People's Daily Online (人民网) from September 15th to 18th. Over 150 million teachers and students from more than 200,000 primary, secondary, and universities across the country watched the course, and over 40 million members of the public watched it through various media. This edition presents a special report, getting close to the four main lecturers of this ideological and political education course, listening to how they can teach a warm and in-depth ideological and political education course, and guiding students to inherit and promote the great spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
-- Editor
Zhou Sunxin (周孙鑫), Teacher at Zhangjiang High-Tech Experimental Primary School in Pudong New Area, Shanghai (上海市浦东新区张江高科实验小学) --
"Balancing the Historical Weight and Children's Acceptability"
People's Daily (人民日报) Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)
Classroom Dialogue
Zhou Sunxin (周孙鑫): On the train to the execution ground, Zhao Yiman (赵一曼) wrote a last letter to her son. The letter said, "Mother doesn't need thousands of words to educate you, but uses action to educate you." Students, what exactly is this "action"?
Student: It is to tell her son what true patriotism is through her own actions.
Q: How to transform the grand history of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression into teaching content that primary school students can understand?
A: The cognitive characteristics of primary school students are mainly image thinking and emotional experience first. Our teaching transforms the spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression through the path of "concrete materials - story carrier - cognitive ladder." In terms of materials, we select content that combines authenticity and impact, such as "a one-year-old baby crying in the ruins" and "Zhao Yiman's (赵一曼) last letter," and transform concepts such as "broken mountains and rivers" and "heroic spirit" into perceptible life stories. The activity design focuses on immersive experiences, such as using air raid sound effects and tunnel models to simulate historical scenes, allowing students to participate interactively as "little militiamen," changing from "observers" to "participants."
Q: What challenges did you encounter in the preparation process?
A: The biggest challenge is how to make big principles small, small details thorough, and old stories new. The lesson preparation team participated in cross-segment collective lesson preparation and went to the Museum of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (中国人民抗日战争纪念馆) for research and study many times. We screened authoritative resources such as historical images and documents from official platforms to ensure the accuracy of historical facts; used AI (artificial intelligence) to restore the images of predecessors and develop interactive systems for tunnel warfare to enhance attractiveness; and repeatedly adjusted the gradient of the question chain to avoid abstract questions, and strived to balance the historical weight and children's acceptability.
Q: What inspiration does this lesson provide for future ideological and political education teaching?
A: Adhere to child-centeredness, conduct precise and differentiated analysis of grand themes, and activate emotional resonance through multi-sensory experiences; strengthen resource empowerment, both strictly adhering to authoritative sources and carrying out child-friendly processing; construct time-space connections, and transform historical spirit into daily actions through surrounding cases, comparisons between the past and present, and practical tasks. Only by taking into account authenticity and empathy, integrating experience and exploration, and running through history and reality can students achieve the unity of knowledge, emotion, will, and action.
Liang Yinzi (梁寅子), Ideological and Political Education Teacher at the Affiliated Middle School of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学附属中学) --
"Tell the Truth with Heart, Tell Stories with Emotion"
People's Daily (人民日报) Reporter Wu Yue (吴月)
Classroom Dialogue
Liang Yinzi (梁寅子): Today, we have specially invited Mr. Ma Jizhi (马继志), the grandson of General Yang Jingyu (杨靖宇), to tell us about his heroic grandfather.
Ma Jizhi (马继志): (Unveiling the red cloth, revealing a piece of birch bark that has been treasured for a long time) Our family has a heirloom, a piece of bark brought back from the place where my grandfather sacrificed. He relied on these things to satisfy his hunger and supported himself with the will of the communists. Before my grandfather sacrificed, he said to the person who persuaded him to surrender: "If all of us Chinese people surrender, will there still be a China?"
Q: As a junior high school ideological and political education teacher, how can you teach a good ideological and political education course according to the characteristics of students at this stage?
A: Junior high school students are in a stage of transition from image thinking to abstract thinking. Their self-awareness is gradually enhanced, they pay attention to social phenomena and hot issues, and they have a certain ability to think independently. At the same time, their cognitive depth is relatively limited, and their value judgments are more easily affected by the outside world. Based on this, the teaching in the junior high school stage should combine experience and perception, and dialectical analysis, to lay a good thinking foundation and cognitive foundation for in-depth analysis in high school and university.
Q: How to use social resources to teach a good ideological and political education course?
A: Society is a rich treasure trove of educational resources. Introducing resources such as museums and memorial halls into the classroom helps to better understand history, touch reality, and feel development, making ideological and political education courses more infectious and persuasive. When teaching content related to "cohesion of value pursuit," we came to the Westward Relocation Museum of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学西迁博物馆) to relive the spirit of westward relocation; when teaching content related to "walking into social life," we went into the community to serve as volunteers. Teachers can explore the ideological and political education resources around them, find resources from nearby, think about designs from small places, and guide from practical places to help students combine textbook knowledge with reality in practice.
Q: You told a lot of stories in class, such as the story of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army. How do you view the relationship between stories and principles?
A: The essence of ideological and political education courses is to tell the truth. Stories are the carrier, and the truth is the purpose. Integrating the truth into the story can increase the humanistic temperature and cognitive depth of the ideological and political education course, enhance the ideological height, and make abstract and profound truths more vivid and fresh, and speak into the hearts of students. In the future, I will continue to work hard to tell the truth with my heart, tell stories with emotion, and teach a warm ideological and political education course.
Yu Ming (于洺), Ideological and Political Education Teacher at the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University (清华大学附属中学) --
"Expanding the Temporal and Spatial Field of Ideological and Political Education"
People's Daily (人民日报) Reporter Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)
Classroom Dialogue
Yu Ming (于洺): These two letters, one is a family letter written by Zuo Quan (左权), Deputy Chief of Staff of the Eighth Route Army (八路军), to his mother, and the other is a eulogy written by his mother after learning that Zuo Quan (左权) had died heroically. What are your feelings after listening to them?
Student: Zuo Quan (左权) dedicated himself to the country, and Zuo Quan's (左权) mother "handed over" her son to the country. The two letters made me see the continuous patriotic spirit.
Q: As a key course for implementing the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, what is the teaching focus of ideological and political education courses?
A: Transforming big principles into small stories and using people around us to tell stories about things around us can guide students to understand the truth in in-depth thinking and interactive discussions, thereby triggering resonance.
For example, in the "Spiritual Monument" lesson, we connect the great spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression with students' study and life, such as "the patriotic feelings of everyone being responsible for the rise and fall of the world," calling on students to contribute to the country and society; "the heroic spirit of not fearing violence and fighting to the end," encouraging students to maintain an indomitable fighting spirit; "the indomitable and unyielding belief in victory," encouraging students to move forward bravely on the road to growth.
Q: How to organically combine the small classroom of ideological and political education with the large classroom of society?
A: Make ideological and political education more "immersive." We encourage students to participate in revolutionary historical short drama performances, visit tunnel warfare sites, etc., to make the learning content more "emotional" and "heartfelt."
Make ideological and political education more practical. We often lead students to rural primary schools and county middle schools to carry out co-learning activities, and guide students to combine the specific goals of learning and struggle with the great goal of national rejuvenation by expanding the temporal and spatial field of ideological and political education.
Q: In light of your work, please talk about how to promote the integrated construction of ideological and political education in primary, secondary, and universities?
A: The ideological and political education teachers of Tsinghua University (清华大学), the High School Affiliated to Tsinghua University (清华附中), and the Primary School Affiliated to Tsinghua University (清华附小) will conduct cross-segment collective lesson preparation and thematic lesson demonstration every month to better integrate the curriculum goals of ideological and political education courses in primary, secondary, and universities. We also often carry out ideological and political activities jointly participated in by primary, secondary, and university students, such as memorial day sweeping activities for martyrs, and "hand-in-hand" exchange activities for young people such as "sowing pomegranate seeds together and building the Chinese dream together," to form a joint force for integrated construction.
Ouyang Qi (欧阳奇), Professor at the School of Marxism, Renmin University of China (中国人民大学马克思主义学院) --
"The Key to Teaching a Good Ideological and Political Education Course Lies in the Teacher"
People's Daily (人民日报) Reporter Wu Dan (吴丹)
Classroom Dialogue
Ouyang Qi (欧阳奇): Students, this year is the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. Everyone has watched the military parade. Which student would like to share their feelings?
Student: Seeing the neat queues and majestic heroic posture of our People's Liberation Army (人民子弟兵), it is indeed a mighty, victorious, civilized, and peaceful army, especially those major country weapons, the J-35 cutting through the sky, and the "Dongfeng Express" fulfilling its mission. I am especially proud of the motherland!
Q: What is the most important value concept that you want to convey by choosing "Responsibility of a Great Power" as the theme of the university course?
A: Taking "Responsibility of a Great Power" as the theme of the course is to lead contemporary college students to better create the future by reliving history: to cultivate patriotic feelings and enhance self-confidence and pride in recognizing the historical contribution of a great power; to promote the construction of a better world by understanding the community of human destiny and enhance the sense of mission and responsibility; to promote creativity and innovation by anchoring the mission of youth and promoting the permanent struggle tradition.
Q: How to achieve the original intention of the curriculum design?
A: The collective lesson preparation team has run some ingenuity through the course: to inspire thinking with "questions," to dispel doubts with "history," and to gather strength with "people." The opening chapter is multiple questions, leading students to think deeply about the core content of the course, such as the improvement of China's status as a great power and the role of the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). At the same time, combined with historical materials, it powerfully expounds the decisive factors for China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and other important issues, and critically criticizes biased views in a targeted manner. These designs connect history with reality, highlight the collective and the individual, and have both constructive and critical aspects, clarifying the practical path of promoting the great spirit of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
Q: What qualities and responsibilities should teachers have to teach a good ideological and political education course in universities?
A: The key to teaching a good ideological and political education course lies in the teacher. For ideological and political education teachers, firm belief is the prerequisite, broad knowledge is the key, and solid foundation is the foundation. Marxism is broad and profound. Only by adhering to lifelong learning can ideological and political education teachers implement the educational motto of "if you want to give students a bowl of water, teachers must have a bucket of water." Teaching ideological and political education courses deeply, vividly, and thoroughly is a systematic project. Only by mastering innovative thinking, inquiry spirit, teaching skills, language art, empathy and other basic skills can we play a good combination of punches and better shoulder the glorious responsibility of ideological and political education teachers to cultivate morality and cultivate people.
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Tracing back to the smoke and flames of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, recounting the passionate years of unyielding spirit, and perceiving the spiritual power of national awakening... The People's Daily Online's "Attending the Same Ideological and Political Class" series of courses has attracted over 150 million teachers and students nationwide since its broadcast. This ideological and political class without walls features innovative teaching methods and wide dissemination channels, demonstrating the innovative charm of ideological and political education.
Adolescents are in the "critical period of growth," and ideological and political education is a crucial course for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. Through approachable explanations and more targeted content, the vast number of ideological and political teachers use vivid examples to bring knowledge to life, use ingenious narratives to thoroughly explain stories, and use novel methods to make courses "trendy," making ideological and political education flavorful and colorful.
To run ideological and political education well, we must constantly expand the forms, content, and carriers of ideological and political education. Stepping into nature and touching cultural relics, integrating classrooms with outdoor research and creative handicrafts, enhances immersion and experience. Small screens connect to large classrooms, relying on modern media, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies to spread the voice of ideological and political education further.
Ideological and political education is a long-distance race without an end. Making ideological and political education down-to-earth and relevant will surely better enlighten the path of adolescents' growth and success.
Return to TopThis newspaper Jinan (济南) September 19th (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)) From September 16th to 19th, the General Office of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会办公厅) held a special training class in Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东), for responsible comrades of local people's congress standing committees on "Promoting High-Quality Development of People's Congress Work in the New Era" to enhance their ability to perform their duties. A total of 150 people, including responsible comrades from provincial people's congress standing committees from 16 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, as well as responsible comrades from some municipal and county-level people's congresses, participated in the study.
The relevant responsible comrade from the General Office of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会办公厅) stated at the opening ceremony that to do a good job in the work of the people's congress in the new era and on the new journey, it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses, profoundly understand where the system of people's congresses comes from and why it is good, and firmly grasp the experience and principles that need to be grasped in promoting the theoretical and practical innovation of the system of people's congresses. It is necessary to accurately identify the positioning and tasks of the people's congress in promoting Chinese-style modernization, perform duties and responsibilities in accordance with the law, and give full play to the important role of the people's congress in ensuring the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Constitution and laws, the leading role of the people's congress in legislative work, the important role of the supervision of the people's congress in the Party and state supervision system, and the leading role of the people's congress in close contact with the people, so as to adhere to, improve, and operate the system of people's congresses well, and make new contributions to promoting the high-quality development of the work of the people's congress while **稳中求进** (wěn zhōng qiú jìn - "seek progress while maintaining stability," to maintain stability as the basis for seeking progress; to make steady progress).
The training class held special reports on topics such as "Deeply Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law and Continuously Improving the Socialist Legal System with Chinese Characteristics" and "Several Major Issues Concerning the Revision of the Deputies Law and the Supervision Law," organized group discussions and exchange meetings, conducted on-site teaching at representative work stations, and conducted case teaching on the supervisory work of the people's congresses.
Return to TopThis newspaper Fuzhou (福州) September 19th (Reporter Shi Yu (施钰)) The 2025 China New Media Think Tank Report was released on the 19th in Fuzhou (福州市), Fujian Province (福建省). The report includes the "China New Media Yearbook 2025" and the "China New Media Research Report 2025," jointly compiled by the New Media Professional Committee of the All-China Journalists Association (中国记协) and the People's Daily (人民日报) News Front Magazine.
The "China New Media Yearbook 2025" systematically includes the development highlights of central and local media, local journalists associations, central enterprise new media, journalism colleges, national key laboratories in the media industry, and commercial communication platforms, comprehensively outlining a "holographic archive" of new media development. The "China New Media Research Report 2025" provides professional insights into industry hotspots and difficulties, with both theoretical depth and practical relevance.
As a series of think tank achievements of the All-China Journalists Association (中国记协), the report has been published for six consecutive years, panoramically recording new achievements and explorations in the deep integration and development of media in China, providing practical reference and data support for the systematic transformation of mainstream media.
This event was guided by the All-China Journalists Association (中国记协) and the People's Daily (人民日报), and hosted by the New Media Professional Committee of the All-China Journalists Association (中国记协), the People's Daily (人民日报) News Front Magazine, and the Propaganda Department of the Fuzhou (福州市) Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共福州市委宣传部), and organized by Fuzhou (福州) Radio and Television Station (福州广播电视台). More than 150 representatives from industry and academia attended the conference.
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From September 15th to 19th, the 2025 "Master Class for Children," hosted by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (中国宋庆龄基金会), entered Hong Kong (香港) and Macau (澳门). Several top experts in the fields of science and history and culture entered multiple schools in the two regions, with the theme of "Youthful Aspirations: Daring to Ask the Sky to Pick Stars," to communicate face-to-face with Hong Kong and Macau teenagers, and talk about new achievements in scientific exploration and historical and cultural research.
Entering Hong Kong: "I am proud of our motherland"
"This is our country's largest solar cell base, the Qinghai Talatan Photovoltaic Base (青海塔拉滩光伏基地), with an area of approximately 600 square kilometers, equivalent to half the land area of Hong Kong." On the 16th, at the Hong Kong Palace Museum (香港故宫文化博物馆) lecture hall, Yang Deren (杨德仁), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and semiconductor material scientist, gave a speech on solar energy and photovoltaic power generation, which caused bursts of exclamations from the Hong Kong students present.
On the same day, as the main event of the "Master Class for Children" entering Hong Kong, six experts including Yang Deren (杨德仁) gave speeches successively. The atmosphere at the event was warm and the venue was packed.
"When did the story of 'Chang'e flying to the moon' come about? Let's look at this picture first..." Tang Jigen (唐际根), the former captain of the Yinxu Archaeological Team (殷墟考古队), used the topic of "Moon Legends in Cultural Relics" to interpret the stories about the moon recorded by the ancient Chinese people on oracle bones, bronzes, and bamboo slips of the Warring States period. The students present were all immersed in it.
Lei Zhanxu (雷占许), Chief Information Officer of the 510 Institute of the Aerospace Science and Technology Group (航天科技集团) and aerospace science popularization expert, led Hong Kong teenagers to understand vacuum from space and shared the importance of vacuum measurement for space exploration. During the interactive session, he asked everyone: "If we go to an extraterrestrial planet, what is one thing we must bring?" "Spacesuit," "Soil and seeds"... After listening to the students' answers, Lei Zhanxu (雷占许) took out a small five-star red flag.
"The answer I want to tell everyone is: the five-star red flag! The one in my hand is the first national flag to land on the back of the moon with Chang'e-4 (嫦娥四号)! I am proud of our motherland!" Before Lei Zhanxu (雷占许) finished speaking, there was thunderous applause at the scene.
After the event, many middle school students present said that the experts' speeches not only allowed them to learn new knowledge, but also gave them a more intuitive understanding of the country's scientific and technological development achievements. They were proud of the scientists of the motherland.
At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学), Jiao Nianzhi (焦念志), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and biological oceanographer, shared his research results on marine conservation and carbon neutrality with the topic of "Implementing Marine Negative Emissions to Create New Quality Productivity," attracting many teachers and students to participate.
"Our research topic focuses on the contribution of microorganisms in driving the marine carbon cycle. This event helped me more clearly understand the importance of the topic I am working on and gave me the motivation to continue to explore it in depth," said a student from the Department of Ocean Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (香港科技大学) who participated in the sharing session.
At Pui Kiu Middle School (香港培侨中学), Wu Weiren (吴伟仁), chief designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program (中国探月工程) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院), gave an inspiring special lecture on aerospace. He brought cutting-edge aerospace science popularization to the teachers and students present with in-depth and simple sharing, displayed the brilliant achievements of Chinese aerospace, and allowed teachers and students to intuitively feel the country's scientific and technological strength.
Entering Macau: "A Journey of Aerospace Enlightenment"
On September 18, the auditorium of the Macao Polytechnic University (澳门理工大学) was packed. In the main event of the "Master Class for Children" entering Macau, Wu Weiren (吴伟仁), Yang Deren (杨德仁) and other outstanding figures in science and culture communicated face-to-face with Macau students, and talked about new achievements in China's scientific and technological innovation and historical and cultural research. The students actively interacted and asked questions, showing a strong interest in science and active participation.
Shen Beili (沈蓓莉), Vice Chairman of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (中国宋庆龄基金会), said that she hopes this event will further stimulate Macau teenagers' love and interest in science and history and culture, help them grasp the pulse of the times, cultivate their feelings for their country and family, and be good builders and successors of the "one country, two systems" cause.
The students of the Macao Polytechnic University (澳门理工大学) listened carefully to the "Master Class," saying that this was a rare learning opportunity to receive on-site guidance from outstanding Chinese scientists at close range. They strongly felt their scientific spirit of unswervingly pursuing their dreams, and they were greatly encouraged and inspired.
"Today's Master Class is a journey of aerospace enlightenment, a transmission of knowledge, and a start of dreams." Yan Zhaoji (严肇基), President of the Macao Polytechnic University (澳门理工大学), said to the students, "In the great era of the vigorous development of the national aerospace industry, you are witnesses and builders of the country's future. I hope you will listen to the experts' wisdom sharing in the lecture hall, feel the charm of the aerospace industry, and illuminate the road to the future with learning, knowledge, and dreams."
On the same day, several experts also entered seven universities and middle schools, including the Macau University of Science and Technology (澳门科技大学), Hou Kong Ying Cai School (濠江英才学校), Colégio Diocesano de São José (教业中学), Escola Luso-Chinesa Técnico-Profissional (中葡职业中学), Escola Kwong Tai (镜平学校), Pui Ching Middle School (培正中学), and the secondary section of Tung Nan School (东南学校中学部), to interact and communicate with Macau teenagers.
Return to TopThis newspaper Chongqing (重庆) September 19th (Reporters Jiang Feng (姜峰) and Wang Xinyue (王欣悦)) From September 17th to 19th, the 2025 Yangtze Civilization Forum, themed "Crossing Rivers and Seas, Mutual Learning Among Civilizations," was held in Chongqing (重庆).
The forum was jointly hosted by the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共重庆市委) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院). At the main forum, domestic industry experts and scholars from academic institutions and universities such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院), as well as experts and scholars from countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, Egypt, and Pakistan who study the Nile River Basin, the ancient Mesopotamia, the Amazon River Basin, and the Indus River Basin, delivered speeches and exchanged ideas on the themes of the protection and inheritance of Yangtze civilization, the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and mutual learning among world river civilizations.
During the forum, the 2025 Longgupo Site (龙骨坡遗址) Academic Seminar, the 2025 World River Song Festival, the Yangtze River Basin Intangible Cultural Heritage Exchange and Exhibition, the "From Dunhuang (敦煌) to Dazu (大足)" Special Exhibition, the "New Rhyme Chongqing (重庆)" Drone Show, and the Yangtze River Culture Exploration and Exchange and other cultural seminars and exchange activities were also held.
Return to TopAccording to a report from the People's Daily (本报) Beijing (北京) on September 19th, reported by Ding Yiting (丁怡婷), a reporter learned from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) that, as of the end of August this year, the total installed capacity of pumped storage power stations in China (我国) reached 62.365 million kilowatts, completing the 62 million kilowatt installed capacity target proposed in the "14th Five-Year Plan."
China's (我国) installed capacity of pumped storage has ranked first in the world for nine consecutive years. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the scale and quality of pumped storage have continued to improve. A number of world-class landmark projects, such as Fengning (丰宁) in Hebei (河北) and Yangjiang (阳江) in Guangdong (广东), have been completed and put into operation. The comprehensive utilization hours and the number of pumped power generation of pumped storage units nationwide have maintained a growth trend, playing an important supporting role for power supply security and green transformation.
Li Sheng (李昇), Dean of the Hydroelectric and Water Resources Planning and Design Institute (水电水利规划设计总院), introduced that in terms of technological innovation, China's (我国) pumped storage has made continuous progress in engineering construction technology, with dam construction technology, seepage control technology, and water transmission and power generation system construction technology blooming in many areas. In terms of equipment manufacturing technology, the manufacturing technology of fixed-speed pumped storage units has reached the international advanced level, and variable-speed pumped storage units have also developed from scratch and from small to large in recent years.
The National Energy Administration (国家能源局) stated that, in the next step, it will continue to improve new energy consumption and regulation policies and measures, continue to promote the rational layout and active and orderly development and construction of pumped storage power stations, and better support the construction of a new energy system.
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High-end Specifications: Invites domestic and foreign government officials, Fortune 500 companies from home and abroad, and important guests from multinational corporations to attend.
Authoritative Content: Releases the "2025 China Manufacturing Enterprise Top 500" list and the "Top Ten Areas Development Report on Building a Manufacturing Powerhouse" and other achievements.
Extensive Cooperation: Promotes international cooperation, with Slovakia (斯洛伐克) as the guest of honor country, guests from over 40 countries and regions attending, foreign guests accounting for over 50%, and holding high-end activities such as the 2025 International Business Association Conference.
Rich Activities: Will hold 4 major events, 6 project matchmaking events, and 23 special events.
In-depth Connection: Focuses on Anhui Province's (安徽省) modern industrial system, coordinating emerging industries and traditional industries, and deepening project attraction and connection. Arranges on-site inspection routes covering multiple cities in Anhui Province (安徽省).
Conference Activities
Anhui Province (安徽省) and Central Enterprise Cooperation and Development Symposium, Anhui Province (安徽省) Emerging Industries and Multinational Corporation Matchmaking Conference, Anhui-Hong Kong-Macao Manufacturing Service Industry Integration and Development Exchange and Matchmaking Conference, Anhui-Taiwan Advantageous Industry Cooperation Promotion Conference, Overseas Chinese Innovation Project Matchmaking and Chaohu (巢湖) Overseas Chinese Innovation Conference, China Manufacturing Private Enterprise Cooperation and Exchange Matchmaking Activities
Future Network Industry Development Cooperation, New Energy Vehicle Industry Cluster Construction, Bio-manufacturing Leading the New Pattern of Future Industries and other special activities
Around the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse and the development achievements of Anhui's (安徽) manufacturing industry during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 10 comprehensive exhibition areas are set up.
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Exhibition, Digital Economy Exhibition, High-end Equipment Manufacturing Exhibition, Mechanical and Electrical Industry Exhibition, Food Industry Exhibition and other market-oriented exhibitions
A full-space unmanned system achievement interactive exhibition area is set up in Luogang Park (骆岗公园).
2018
Innovation-Driven Manufacturing Leading Embracing the World's New Industrial Revolution
From May 25th to 27th, 2018, the first World Manufacturing Convention was held in Hefei (合肥), with the theme of "Innovation-Driven Manufacturing Leading Embracing the World's New Industrial Revolution." The conference was jointly hosted by the Global SME Alliance, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会), and the People's Government of Anhui Province (安徽省人民政府). During the conference, more than 10 special forums were held, including the keynote forum, the intelligent manufacturing forum, and the artificial intelligence forum, and exhibition activities such as the comprehensive exhibition, the international intelligent manufacturing exhibition, and the domestic intelligent manufacturing exhibition were set up. Nearly 100 executives from Fortune 500 companies attended the conference, showcasing cutting-edge technologies and innovative achievements such as quantum communication, intelligent voice, new displays, and new energy vehicles, and building a high-end exchange and cooperation platform for the global manufacturing industry.
2019
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity Moving Towards a New Era of Manufacturing
The 2019 conference was held in Hefei (合肥) from September 20th to 23rd, with the theme of "Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity Moving Towards a New Era of Manufacturing." The conference established a guest of honor country for the first time. As the guest of honor country, the United Kingdom established a national pavilion and sent a high-level delegation. More than 4,500 guests from 78 countries and regions attended the conference, and 638 projects were signed, with a total investment of 735.1 billion yuan, an increase of 46% and 64% respectively compared with the first conference. The conference also set up a special Yangtze River Delta (长三角) integration exhibition area to showcase collaborative innovation achievements.
2020
Online Economy Empowers High-Quality Development
On September 12, 2020, the conference innovatively adopted an online and offline integrated "cloud exhibition" model. The conference continued the purpose of deepening international cooperation and showcasing new technologies and achievements in manufacturing, and carried out exchanges and connections relying on digital means, demonstrating the resilience and innovation of the conference.
2021
Innovation-Driven, Digital Empowerment, Working Together for High-Quality Development of the Global Manufacturing Industry
The 2021 conference opened in Hefei (合肥) on November 19, with the theme of "Innovation-Driven, Digital Empowerment, Working Together for High-Quality Development of the Global Manufacturing Industry." The conference was held in a combination of online and offline forms, showcasing a large number of cutting-edge products in the fields of quantum computing, high-end manufacturing, AI life, and new materials.
2022
Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future
The 2022 conference opened in Hefei (合肥) on September 20, with the theme of "Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future." The total exhibition area of the conference was 59,000 square meters, including the preface hall, the special exhibition of major country manufacturing, the "three firsts" product exhibition, and the "specialized, refined, and new" exhibition, and market-oriented exhibitions were introduced. A release event was set up for the first time at the opening ceremony, focusing on "intelligence," "high," and "new," and released a batch of new technologies and new products around emerging industries such as new-generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, and new energy vehicles.
2023
Intelligent Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future
The 2023 conference was held in Hefei (合肥) from September 20th to 24th, with the theme of "Intelligent Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future." The exhibition area of the conference reached 80,000 square meters, and the major country manufacturing exhibition was innovatively held, showcasing more than 70 "major country weapons" and key materials representing the international leading level, such as the 600 km/h maglev train. The internationalization level of the conference was further improved, inviting more than 1,200 heavyweight guests from the global manufacturing field, and launching the "Entering Europe" series of activities for the first time.
2024
Intelligent Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future
The 2024 conference was held in Hefei (合肥) from September 20th to 23rd. The conference achieved fruitful results, realizing "five new improvements": 508 foreign guests, more than 10,000 exhibits, 718 signed projects with a total investment of 369.2 billion yuan, 117 released achievements, and 53,000 media reports.
2025
Intelligent Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future
The 2025 conference will be held in Hefei (合肥) from September 20th to 23rd, with the theme of "Intelligent Manufacturing the World · Creating a Better Future." The conference invites Slovakia (斯洛伐克) as the guest of honor country and Henan Province (河南省) as the guest of honor province. Guests from more than 40 countries and regions will attend, with the number of foreign guests accounting for more than 50%, and the level of internationalization reaching a new height. The conference will set up 10 comprehensive exhibition areas, and set up a full-space unmanned system achievement interactive exhibition area in Luogang Park (骆岗公园). It is expected that more than 730 projects will be signed, with a total investment of more than 380 billion yuan.
Data Source: World Manufacturing Convention Executive Committee Office (世界制造业大会执委会办公室)
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