MISSION
To represent and safeguard women's rights and interests and promote equality between women and men.

TASKS
1. To unite and mobilize women to engage in China's reform and opening up program, in the country's socialist modernization and in advancing economic development and social well-being;
2. To educate and offer guidance to women to strengthen their spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement, to improve their technical and professional skills and to enhance their overall competence;
3. To represent women in the participation in the democratic decision-making, management and supervision of state and public affairs, and in the formulation of laws, decrees, regulations and policies concerning women and children, to promote the implementation of national programs on women and children's development, and to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests;
4. To render services to women and children by strengthening coordination with all sectors of the society and urge them to work in the best interests of women and children;
5. To consolidate unity among women of all nationalities in China, to develop friendly relations with women and women's organizations in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan and with overseas Chinese women and to promote the great cause of China's reunification. To actively develop friendly exchanges with women and women's organizations of other countries to enhance better understanding, friendship and cooperation, and to safeguard world peace.

ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM
ACWF practices an organizational system of local women's federations and group members. Local women's federations are set up according to the state administrative divisions. Women workers' committees of trade unions at all levels are group members of the women's federations. All social groups mainly made up of women with the aim to serve the society and women that are registered with the civil affairs departments and that are willing to apply for affiliation with the women's federations may become group members once approved by the national or local women's federations.

NATIONAL LEADING BODY
The highest power organ of ACWF is the National Congress of Chinese Women. It is convened once every five years to deliberate and decide on the guidelines, tasks and major issues of national women's movement, review and endorse the work report of the Executive Committee of ACWF, amend the constitution of ACWF and elect the Executive Committee of ACWF.
When the National Congress of Women is not in session, the Executive Committee implements the resolutions of the National Congress of Women, discusses and decides on the major issues concerning work on women and personnel arrangement. The plenary session of the Executive committee elects a President, a number of Vice-Presidents and other members to form a Standing Committee, which is the leading body when the Executive Committee is not in session. A Secretariat is set up under the Standing Committee to handle the daily work of ACWF, with its First Member and several other members recommended and elected by the Standing Committee.