CWU Holds Seminar on B&R Initiative and Women's Development

 December 24, 2017
CWU Holds Seminar on B&R Initiative and Women's Development

 

China Women's University (CWU) held a seminar on the Belt and Road Initiative and Women's Development on December 18.

Scholars and experts across the country participated in the event, including Huang Haoming, a professor from China Global Philanthropy Institute; Deng Guosheng, a professor from Tsinghua University; Liang Zhanjun, dean of the graduate school of Capital Normal University; Zhu Shisong, an expert from Xinjiang Normal University; Zhang Chengxia, dean of the International Education Department of Guizhou Univeristy; Guo Jingming, executive director of China Kunming ASEAN International Trade and Investment Promotion Association; Feng Cui, former member of the secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF); Hua Liming, executive member of the United Nations Association of China (UNAC); and Zhang Xiao'an, former standing vice-president of the UNAC. CWU Vice-President Liu Meng and directors from the university's functional departments also attended the event.

CWU president Liu Liqun warmly welcomed the participants on behalf of the university. She pointed out that the Belt and Road national training base project is an important step towards the internationalization of CWU. The university has attached great importance to the project. She hoped all the experts could contribute ideas to the internationalization of CWU.

Liu Meng introduced the university's management characteristics, academic advantages, foreign aid projects for social work masters in developing countries and programmes in promoting women's leadership and social development.

Liu Meng pointed out that CWU has distinctive academic research features and advantages in the fields of basic theory of gender development, women's leadership, women and law, as well as women's involvement in social work. The university will make the most of its school-running characteristics and professional advantages to serve the Belt and Road national comprehensive development strategy, improve the international influence of Beijing's education services and promote educational exchanges and cooperation between Beijing and the countries along the Belt and Road.

Li Ying, dean of the CWU's International Education Department, introduced the background and objectives of the "Belt and Road" national talent cultivation project, as well as CWU's advantages and plans in implementing the project.

Themed "Belt and Road Initiative and Higher Education" and "Belt and Road Initiative and Women's Development", those present held in-depth discussions on some important theoretical issues concerning Belt and Road construction. They also exchanged opinions on how to promote gender equality and promote CWU's development process into a talent cultivation base. Huang said that the university should insert an international universal language into the teaching contents and curriculum, adhere to international standards of talent cultivation and incorporate international standards of personnel training into international policies, China's national condition, international outlook, rules and practical ability promotion into training content, Huang added.

Deng expressed his opinions that CWU should strengthen surveys on trainees' demands, enhance the attractiveness of the curriculum, adjust the training course to talent cultivation objectives, strive to build a core curriculum and improve trainees' abilities effectively.

According to Professor Liang Zhanjun, it is necessary for CWU to strengthen its own talent cultivation while developing more women talents from relevant developing countries. The university should also utilize its characteristic specialties to promote women's development and gender equality.

 

CWU Holds Seminar on B&R Initiative and Women's Development

 

Hua put forward his opinions that CWU should carefully study the training course and teach in an internationally recognized language. Zhang Xiao'an pointed out that tutors' should adopt flexible teaching methods and try to avoid falling into exam-oriented and inculcating teaching patterns. In addition, the university should stick to the initial principles of the Belt and Road construction and establish an open and equal platform for communication.

Feng said that the project organizers should involve more Chinese into the training session and create more opportunities for the foreigners to communicate with Chinese trainees. She added that CWU should not only combine the domestic program for women's development and the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women with the international Platform for Action which was issued at the Fourth World Women Conference in 1995 and The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women which was passed by the General Assembly in 1979, but also should integrate the international view with Chinese women's spirits of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-support and self-improvement, as well as, touch the trainees with women leaders' growth and female elites' stories.

Other experts put forward constructive suggestions on how to strengthen cooperation with higher institutes and agencies in the Lancang-Mekong River basin, ASEAN and Central Asia.

CWU will integrate experts' opinions and incorporate them into the practical work of curriculum construction and talent cultivation. Moreover, the university will make full use of its management characteristics and academic advantages, further study the curriculum system and promote gender equality and women's development in relevant countries, CWU leaders said.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and Edited by Gender Study Network)

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