We Must Mobilize Women to Participate in Economic Development and Economic-system Reform

Peng Peiyun, Vice-Chairperson of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee and then-ACWF President [Women of China]

We must mobilize women to participate in economic development and economic-system reform, which will create conditions for achieving gender equality, on an economic basis, and lay a good economic foundation for women's development. During the development of democracy, with Chinese characteristics, the level of women's participation in administration of State and social affairs should be improved. The State policy of gender equality must be implemented in all sectors.

— Peng Peiyun, Vice-Chairperson of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee and then-ACWF President, made the above comments during the symposium on socialist women's theories with Chinese characteristics, on September 21, 2002.

(Women of China)