The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) on September 17-18 launched a project in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The project will promote scientific and technological services to women. Several events will be held in Chongqing, Xizang Autonomous Region and Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces (all in southwestern China) through the end of November.
Women's federations and various associations, for science and technology, in the five regions will cooperate in implementing relevant policies, building platforms and upgrading services for women science and technology personnel, and for women-led, sci-tech enterprises.
During the launch ceremony, two representatives, from sci-tech enterprises, shared their practices of innovation, market application of sci-tech advances and sci-tech empowerment of agriculture.
Huang Taocui, researcher with Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Qin Yuxia, member of ACWF's Executive Committee, and head of Guang'an Branch of Sichuan Women Science and Technology Personnel Service Station, explained how they have served rural revitalization through research, development and promotion of agricultural technologies.
Two experts, one from Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau and the other from Chongqing Municipal Party School, explained policies involving sci-tech innovation services, and they introduced practices of digital empowerment of rural development.
Speeches by two scientists, from two Chongqing-based research institutions specializing in frontier technologies, showcased women's outstanding achievements in the fields of new energy and health.
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(Women of China English Monthly October 2026)
Editor: Wang Shasha