CWU Launches Experts' Proposals for Women Development Program

Participants at the ceremony [China Women's University]

A ceremony was held at China Women's University (CWU) in Beijing on May 6 to mark the launch of the compilation of experts' proposals for the drafted National Program for Women's Development (2021-2030).

Liu Liqun, President of the CWU, said that the National Program for Women's Development was an important official document for the implementation of China's basic policy on gender equality and the promotion of women's comprehensive growth in the new era and that it has been a key component of the country's policies in the protection of human rights.

The CWU will learn from the compilation of the National Program for Women's Development (2001-2010) and the National Program for Women's Development (2011-2020), conduct an evaluation of the latter's implementation, and take into consideration the international and domestic environment, thorny problems and prioritized development goals affecting Chinese women in their future growth in a bid to complete the writing of the experts' proposals and explanatory reports for the program and make it more practical, forward-looking, scientific and a source of greater guidance.

Zhang Li, Vice Director of the Office of the National Working Committee on Women and Children (NWCWC) under the State Council, noted that the program should set up key targets concerning women's growth in important fields and come up with concrete measures to realize them.

Drafters should adopt a holistic approach, draw on past achievements, make innovative endeavors, emphasize practical and forwarding-looking needs, formulate quantitative and qualitative objectives, set up restraints and guidelines, and give priority to women's growth.

Xu Jianlin, an official from the National Bureau of Statistics, and Jiang Yongping, former researcher at the Women's Studies Institute of China under the All-China Women's Federation, spoke about the design of statistical monitoring indicators and the compilation of experts' proposals for the National Program for Women's Development (2011-2020).

Zhu Dongyun, Director of the department of women's affairs of the NWCWC under the State Council, presided over the ceremony.

Wang Lian, Vice President of the CWU, professors at the CWU and officials from the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security affiliated to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, also attended the ceremony.

(Source: cwu.edu.cn/Translated and edited by Women of China)