In
the year 2002, the ACWF's working principles and
major tasks are: to follow the situation of reform,
development and stability; to adhere to "paying
special attention to development, while simultaneously
maintaining women's rights;" to actively participate
in and promote the implementation of the 2001--2010
programs for the development of Chinese women and
children according to the stipulations of the third
National Working Meeting on Women and Children;
and to raise women's caliber and mobilize them to
fulfill the 10th Five-Year Plan. The ACWF should
strongly improve her work methods, with initiative
and foresight, and accomplish this year's tasks
with a high standard and quality, so as to greet
the 16th CPC National Congress with new achievements.
1. Carry out the Citizenry Ethics Building Program.
The ACWF should combine the basic ethics "being
patriotic and law-abiding, polite and honest, united
and friendly, thrifty and reliant, and conscientious
and selfless in work" with all her activities.
2. Encourage women to learn modern knowledge and
professional skills. The ACWF should promote the
project "to raise women's caliber" and
guide women to culture, science, skill, law, business,
and management so that they can become competent.
The ACWF should also train laid-off and unemployed
women, ask women employees to revise their knowledge
and skills, and advocate that educated women should
receive reeducation.
3. Serve rural women and help them become rich.
The ACWF should improve the three science and technology
networks of training, serving, and guidance through
various ways, including teaching new technological
skills to rural women, organizing rural women to
help each other, training rural women at different
levels, as well as propagating science and technology
in the countryside. The ACWF should also guide rural
women to the structural adjustment of agriculture
and rural economy, to the development of environmental-friendly
agriculture, agriculture with local characteristics,
and export-oriented agriculture, and to the suitable
labor emulation, so that they can increase income
and become rich.
The ACWF should further sum up her experience
in fighting poverty, promote activities to build
a prosperous West and cooperation between women
from Eastern and Western regions, develop the bases
of planting trees, and help women's cause and improve
the training for women in ethnic areas.
4. Promote the project "women community service."
In order to help laid-off women to be reemployed,
the ACWF should further develop women's services
or projects in the community, including the family
service, education service, health service, environment
service, public order service, as well as reemployment
centers and training bases. The ACWF should also
pay close attention to other weak women in society,
such as divorced women, migrant women and elderly
women, giving them special help.
5. Maintain the rights of women and children.
The ACWF should actively participate in drawing
up, perfecting and supervising the enforcement of
relevant laws and policies, support the government
and crack down on such social evils and criminal
offences as spreading unhealthy life-styles, trafficking
in women and children, employing child laborers,
domestic violence, drowning or abandoning female
infants, and violating women's right to work. The
ACWF and local women's federations should play a
coordinating role in maintaining the rights of women
and children, strengthen the building of the working
teams and networks, improve various legal-aid hotlines,
and treat seriously letters and complaints from
women.
6. Meet the spiritual and cultural demands of
women and children. The ACWF should further organize
various popular culture and physical activities
as well as promote family civilization, so as to
develop a woman's healthy psychology.
7. Strengthen organizational building. The ACWF
should adjust and perfect herorganizational structure,
pay close attention to the building of women's organizations
at the grass-roots level in urban and rural areas,
and develop women's organizations in governmental
departments, institutions, professional groups,
social organs, and non-public economic sectors.
The ACWF should also enhance the relations of women
from all circles, as well as her own group members
and executive committee members.
8. Build a working team for women. The ACWF and
local women's federations should pay close attention
to the training of full-time workers, raise their
comprehensive quality, and provide the country with
more excellent women cadres. Meanwhile, the ACWF
and local women's federations should continuously
guide and serve the part-time workers so as to form
a great volunteer team for women.
9. Develop economic entities, bases and projects.
In order to serve women and children and gain social
and economic benefits, the ACWF and local women's
federations should further run well various centers
for women and children, kindergartens, women's newspapers
and magazines, women's colleges and schools, women's
travel services, and all kinds of economic entities,
creating more business, education and health projects
for women and children.
10. Enhance the working coordination and improve
the methods of work. The ACWF should perfect her
relationship with the NPC, CPPCC and governmental
departments, participate in democratic consultation,
amplify dialogue channels, and make women's cause
popularized and socialized.
11. Make further advance friendly relations with
celebrities and women's groups in Hong Kong and
Macao. Also, the ACWF should actively launch exchanges
and cooperation between women and women's groups
from both sides of the Taiwan Straits.
12. Augment international exchanges and cooperation.
The ACWF should give full play to non-governmental
diplomacy's advantage, increase friendly contacts
with women and women's organizations from other
countries, especially from neighboring countries,
participate in international conferences and forums,
launch training abroad, and create more international
projects for the development of Chinese women and
children.
ACWF's Activities in Celebration
of
International Women's Day
"The Week of Maintaining Women's Rights"
Launched in Tangshan
This year is the 10th anniversary of the issuance
of Law of the People's Republic of China on the
Protection of Rights and Interests of Women, and
it is also the first anniversary of the issuance
of the Amendment of Marriage Law of the People's
Republic of China. The ACWF and the Ministry of
Justice initiated a nationwide program "The
Week of Maintaining Women's Rights" on the
occasion of the International Women's Day, with
the aim of calling upon the whole of society to
safeguard women's rights and interests. On March
4, the initiation ceremony for the program was
held at the square commemorating the devastating
earthquake in Tangshan, Hebei Province. Tian Shulan,
Vice President and associate of the Secretariat
of the ACWF; Hu Zejun, Vice Minister of Justice;
and Liu Dewang, Vice Secretary of the CPC Hebei
Committee attended the ceremony.
Mo Wenxiu, Member of the Secretariat of the
ACWF, presided over the initiation ceremony and
Liu Dewang delivered the welcoming speech. Hu
Zejun and Tian Shulan gave speeches at the ceremony,
as well. Hu Zejun called upon the judicial and
administrative organizations at various levels
to actively work with women's federations. The
judicial and administrative organizations were
required to organize the lawyers, grass-root legal
service workers, and judicial assistants and coordinators
to go into the grass-roots level of urban areas
and social communities and provide women with
convenient, fast, and effective legal services.
Tian Shulan, on behalf of the ACWF, pointed out
that the protection of women's rights and interests
should be adapted to new situations and promote
new development. She appealed to women's federations
to closely cooperate with the judicial and administrative
organizations, strive for the participation of
various social circles and ceaselessly research
new systems of rights' protection in the socialist
market economy. She also stressed that women's
federations at various levels should grasp favorable
chances, make deep investigations, carefully sum
up the experiences of the implementation of Law
of the People's Republic of China on the Protection
of Rights and Interests of Women, and continuously
solidify and expand the results of work on safeguarding
women's rights and interests.
During the initiation ceremony, Tangshan City
held special performances for the local people
entitled "Women's Law and Me."
"March 8 Red-Banner Pacesetters and Collectives"
Awarded
On March 6, the ACWF held a meeting in the
Great Hall of the People. The 154 outstanding
women and 47 advanced groups from various fields
that have made great contributions to the national
modernization were awarded the titles of national
"March 8 Red-Banner Pacesetters" and
national "March 8 Red-Banner Collectives?respectively.
Yang Yang, the winner of two gold medals for
short-track speed skating at the 19th Winter Olympic
Games; Wang Shutong, CEO of Beijing Century Joyo
Information and Technology Company Ltd.; Xu Yafen,
Secretary of the Party Committee and President
of Wanli Education Group of Zhejiang Province;
and Han Yaling, Vice Dean of the Shenyang Military
Area General Hospital and Director of the Cardiovascular
Research Institute told their touching stories
of their contributions to the audience. Wang Dan,
from the Haemodialyser Center of the First Clinical
Medicine Institute of Harbin Medical Science University,
gave a speech as the representative of the advanced
collectives.
Wu Yi, Alternate Member of the Political Bureau
of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor
and Director of the National Working Committee
on Children and Women Under the State Council;
Peng Peiyun, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing
Committee and President of the ACWF; He Luli,
Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee;
Qian Zhengying, Vice Chairperson of the CPPCC抯
National Committee; and Chen Muhua, Honorary President
of the ACWF and former Vice Chairperson of the
NPC Standing Committee attended the awarding meeting.
Peng Peiyun addressed the meeting. She called
upon all Chinese women to study hard, improve
their own qualities, and give full play to their
talents in the practice of working for the country
and people. She also hoped Chinese women can surpass
their predecessors with creative ideas and carry
forward the traditional hard-working spirit by
making greater contributions to the construction
of a strong, democratic, and civilized socialist
country.
Gu Xiulian, Vice President and First Member of
the Secretariat of the ACWF, presided over the
meeting. Leaders from the Organization Department
and Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee,
Work Committee of Departments Under the CPC Central
Committee, General Political Department of the
PLA and State Sport General Administration, as
well as vice presidents and members of the Secretariat
of the ACWF attended the meeting.
Reception for Chinese and Foreign Women Held
in the Great Hall of the People
I n the afternoon of March 7, the Reception
for Chinese and Foreign Women in celebration of
the 92nd anniversary of International Women's
Day was held by the ACWF in the banquet hall of
the Great Hall of the People. Over 1,500 people,
including women representatives from various ethnicities
and fields, women members and alternate members
of the CPC Central Committee in Beijing, women
members of the NPC Standing Committee and the
Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee,
women ministers, women military generals in Beijing,
women members of various democratic parties' central
committees in Beijing, women representatives of
non-governmental organizations, well-known women
in the fields of sciences, wives of the envoys
of foreign embassies to China, women diplomats,
and women foreign experts and wives of foreign
experts, attended the reception.
Qian Qichen, Vice Premier of the State Council,
Peng Peiyun, He Luli, Qian Zhengying and Chen
Muhua attended the reception and watched the wonderful
performances.
Gu Xiulian, Vice President and First Member of
the Secretariat of the ACWF, presided over the
reception. Peng Peiyun gave an ardent speech at
the reception, offering congratulations to Chinese
and foreign women during International Women's
Day.
Siri Tellier (1st L), Representative of United
Nations Population Fund, Qian Zhengying (2nd L),
Peng Peiyun (3rd L), He Luli (4th L) and Martha
Toledo-Ocampo (5th L), Peruvian Ambassador to
China, watches the performances together at the
reception
Beneficial Program of Healthy Life for Women
Sponsored by the Center
I n the afternoon of March 8, the "Second
Beneficial Program of Healthy Life for Women in
the New Century" was held at the China Women's
Activity Center. This program aimed to advocate
a scientific and healthy lifestyle, help women
to find elegant and suitable designs of personal
images, and provide modern women with the information
on improvement of individual qualities. The program
had three parts: image designing, cultivation
of good qualities for women, and consultation
on health problems. The program invited experts
to give consultations on medical treatment, health
care, tea culture and floriculture, color diagnosis,
and exercise. Chen Hong, a famous movie star,
was invited to attend the activity as the envoy
of a healthy image.
A cocktail party to explore the differences
in the thought of Western and Chinese women was
held, with aim to meet Chinese women's desire
to know more about the world after China's entry
into the WTO. The participants exchanged ideas
in a light-hearted way about the differences in
women's attitudes toward family, career, and education.
Everyone who attended the party gained much inspiration
from the relaxed discussions.
Ceremony for the Donation by Qatar's Emir
Consort Held in Beijing
In the afternoon of March 4, the ceremony for
the donation by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Nasser
Abdullah Al-Misnad, Consort of the Emir of the
State of Qatar and President of the Supreme Council
for Family Affairs, was held at the China Women's
Activity Center. On behalf of the Consort of the
Emir of the State of Qatar, H. E. Mr. Saleh A.
Al-Bouarin, Ambassador of Qatar to China, donated
US $500,000 to the ACWF.
Her Highness Sheikha Mozah had dedicated funds
to education, family, and social welfare in Qatar
for many years. In October 2001 at the invitation
of the ACWF, she headed the Qatar women's delegation
to pay a visit to China and signed an agreement
for friendly exchanges with the ACWF, expressing
the wish to donate US $500,000 to support the
advancement of Chinese women and children.
Gu Xiulian, Vice President and First Member
of the Secretariat of the ACWF, Feng Cui, Member
of the CPPCC and former Member of the Secretariat
of the ACWF, Zhao Shaohua, Member of the Secretariat
of the ACWF, H. E. Mr. Muftah O. Madi, Head of
the Arabic Envoy Group to China and Libyan Ambassador
to China, and Mrs. Nehad R. Sukayri, head of the
group of wives of Arabic envoys to China and wife
of Jordanian Ambassador to China attended the
donation ceremony. Gu Xiulian gave a speech at
the ceremony on behalf of the ACWF, speaking highly
of the contribution Her Highness Sheikha Mozah
made to the Chinese women's cause and the friendship
between the two peoples as well as expressing
sincere thanks.
H. E. Saleh A. Al-Bouarin (L) and Gu Xiulian
(R) at the ceremony
A Brief on Friendly Exchanges
(From January to March, 2002)
On January 23, at the company of Zhao Shaohua,
Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, the group
of wives of the envoys of African Embassies to
China paid a visit to Tianjin, inspecting the
work on women in Tianjin.
On January 24, Peng Peiyun, Vice Chairperson
of the NPC Standing Committee and President of
the ACWF, met with H. E. Suzanne Mubarak, wife
of Egyptian President and President of the National
Council for Women.
From February 22 to 25, at the invitation of
Vietnam Women's Union, Zhao Shaohua, Member of
the Secretariat of the ACWF, attended the Ninth
National Congress of Vietnam Women's Union. As
the special-invited observer and nonvoting delegate
she also attended the meeting of Women's International
Democratic Federation in Asia and Pacific.
On February 22, the group of wives of the envoys
of Latin America and Caribbean Embassies to China
paid a visit to Tianjin, inspecting the work on
women in Tianjin.
On February 28, Zhao Shaohua, Member of the
Secretariat of the ACWF, attended the activity
by the group of wives of the envoys of Arabic
countries' embassies to China in the Embassy of
the Arab Republic of Egypt to China.
From March 12 to 19, at the invitation of Japanese
Women's Federation, the Chinese Women's Delegation
headed by Li Qiufang, Member of the Secretariat
of the ACWF, visited Japan.
On March 18, the donation ceremony of Mary
Kay Women's Career Fund was held in the ACWF.
This time Mary Kay Women's Career Fund again donated
RMB 300,000 to the Women's Fund of the ACWF. Mo
Wenxiu, Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF,
and Mr. Michael L. Lunceford, Vice President of
Mary Kay Company attended the donation ceremony.
From March 22 to April 4, at the invitation
of Ministry of Gender and Women in Development
of Rwanda, Ministry of Social Action and Women
in Development of Burundi and Ministry of the
Social Affairs and Women's Promotion and Children's
Protection of Togo, Gu Xiulian, Vice President
and First Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF
led the Chinese women's delegation to pay a visit
to the three countries mentioned above.
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