Huang Xiaowei (2nd, R), Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation, conducts an investigation tour of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, from July 28 to 29. [For Women of China]

Huang Xiaowei, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), conducted an investigation tour of Zhaojue and Mianning counties in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, from July 28 to 29 to promote the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Huang also conducted field research on poverty alleviation achievements and the work of local women's federations, including promoting girls' education and health, helping women start businesses and increase their incomes, and building family education and traditions.

During her visit to a village in Zhaojue, Huang encouraged the villagers to live a better life through hard work.

At a relocation site and a training class for embroidery of the Yi ethnic group, Huang called for helping women improve their employability and participate in industrial development, as well as guiding them to develop healthy lifestyles, promote good family traditions and family education, and give full play to their unique roles.

While visiting a preschool education center in a village in Zhaojue, Huang delivered schoolbags to children. She stressed planting the seeds of love for the Party and the country in the children's hearts and guiding them to develop good thoughts, behaviors and habits at an early age.

Huang Xiaowei (C), Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation, visits children at a local preschool education center during her investigation tour of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, from July 28 to 29. [For Women of China]

Huang conducted field research on the implementation of the Spring Bud Project, which was launched in 1989 by the China Children and Teenagers' Fund under the leadership of the ACWF to improve education conditions for girls from impoverished families. She encouraged the "Spring Bud" girls to study hard, build their hometowns and serve the motherland when they grow up.

Huang Xiaowei, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation, attends a symposium during her investigation tour of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Southwest China's Sichuan Province. [For Women of China]

At a symposium held in Xichang, a city in Liangshan, Huang studied the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech with cadres at the grassroots level. She fully affirmed the achievements made by women's federations at all levels in Sichuan to lead women and families in Liangshan out of poverty and improve their lives.

Huang said the next step is to further guide women to follow the Party's leadership, strengthen girls' education, help women improve themselves, improve women and girls' health, update outmoded habits and customs, promote the building of family, family education and family traditions, and strengthen capacity building of women's federations at the grassroots level.

Huang also called for making new contributions to consolidating and expanding achievements in poverty elimination, promoting the development of the prefecture and advancing rural revitalization on all fronts.

(Women of China)