The 2025 International Women's Exchange on the Family & Coordinated Development of Women in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with the theme "Joining Hands for Happy Home and Bright Future," was held in Foshan, a city in South China's Guangdong Province, on November 22-23, 2025. The event, hosted by the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), was organized by Guangdong Women's Federation and the People's Government of Foshan City.
Chinese State Councilor Shen Yiqin, also President of the ACWF, attended and delivered a speech during the opening ceremony. Huang Xiaowei, Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, presided over the opening ceremony. Also attending were approximately 300 Chinese and foreign guests, including women from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), foreign ambassadors, representatives of international organizations, and trainees from a seminar on promoting women's development in developing countries through artificial intelligence.
The event innovatively used the family unit as a bridge to promote cultural exchanges and mutual learning, and to build a broader cooperation platform for women. Several of the international guests addressed the opening ceremony, they shared their countries' experiences in family development, and they spoke highly of the event.
The event included several activities, such as the family tradition story sharing and photo exhibition, the intangible cultural heritage exhibition and field inspections. The activities allowed the guests, from around the world, to see how women in the GBA have played important roles in family development and cultural inheritance.
In 2020, ACWF launched the Coordinated Development of Women in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area event, with the theme "Sisters Hand in Hand, Build a Wonderful Home in GBA." The event has since been held four times, in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Macao. Topics during previous events have included family development, scientific and technological innovation, grassroots governance, and new quality productive forces. The event has achieved fruitful outcomes, and it has become an influential brand and platform.
Photos by Yang Rui
(Source: Women Voice/Translated by Women of China)
Editor: Cui Rui
