The National People's Congress Inspects Law Enforcement
　　April 3, 2002 was the 10th anniversary of the issuing of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women. In order to find out the enforcement situation of the Law and push forward its implementation, the Committee on Internal and Judicial Affairs of the NPC formed an inspection team.
On the base of acquiring the general situation, the inspection focused on women's political rights, personal rights, labor rights and interests as well as the situation of guaranteeing rural women's rights and interests in land contracts.
　　Peng Peiyun, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee and President of the All-China Women's Federation, headed the inspection team to Shaanxi on April 5. When having discussions with staffs from the Shaanxi Women's Federation and some grassroots women's federations, Peng attentively listened to the Provincial Women's Federation's report on carrying out the Law, and inquired about the achievement Shaanxi had made in the past 10 years and the problems it encountered.
　　During the discussions, Peng inquired about the allocation of women cadres at all levels, rural women's land contract rights, urban women's re-employment, social security and women workers' labor protection. She also asked about their concrete working methods and relevant statistics and put forward her opinions. When people from the Shaanxi Women's Federation mentioned the news spokesperson system for maintaining rights, she showed great interest in it, inquiring about its establishment, major responsibilities, contents and social responses.
　　On the problem of the low percentage of women's involvement in politics in Shaanxi, Peng Peiyun said that economic development was an important material base for women's development; nonetheless, it could not improve the development of women alone. "It depends on our efforts to push forward the development of women," she remarked. "As early as 1939," Peng recalled, "the first participant conference of Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region passed the Resolution on Raising Women's Political, Economic and Cultural Status, which stipulated 25 percent of members at all levels of participant meetings should be women. Through the effort of everyone involved, the goal was realized." She advocated women's federations at all levels to appeal actively to related Party committees and organizational departments to take effective measures to increase the number of women participating in politics and fulfil the set quota of women in the leading bodies at all levels, while monitoring the carrying out of the Program for the Development of Chinese Women. She stressed the selection of women cadres should start from the grassroots. The Organic Law of the Villagers' Committee stipulates that in every villagers' committee there should be an appropriate quota of women. Women's federations at all levels should strive to have one female member in every villagers' committee.
　　Finally, Peng Peiyun said the fundamental function of women's federations is to maintain women's rights and interests. While promoting the development of women, they should attach importance to the work of maintaining women's rights and interests, strive to get support from the governments and people's congresses at all levels and push forward the whole society to do the work well. The women's federations should assist the governments to do a good job of investigation, analyze earnestly the causes for different problems and propose ideas and suggestions for solving the problems.
　　During their stay in Shaanxi, Peng Peiyun and her law inspection team also heard reports of the provincial, municipal and some prefecture departments on their implementation of the Law. They also had discussions with people's congress deputies, experts, scholars, representatives of workers and staffs from enterprises and institutions. They also inspected the implementation of the Law among enterprises.

The Science and Technology Conference on Rural Women Opened
　　On the morning of June 18, the National Working Conference on Increasing the Income of Rural Women Through Science and Technology opened in Beijing. A group of advanced individuals and collectives who guided rural women to increase their incomes through science and technology were awarded in the Great Hall of the People. Wen Jiabao, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC), Member of the Secretariat of the CCCPC and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the conference and extended congratulations to the winners of the awards on behalf of the CCCPC and the State Council. He expressed his hope for rural women to further improve their qualities, devote themselves to increasing incomes through science and technology and make greater contributions to the rural reform and the country's economic and social development.
　　Wen Jiabao said: "There are a lot of things that can be done in the rural areas. Rural women should carry forward the spirit of self-respect, self-confidence, self-reliance, and self-improvement, further emancipate the mind, establish new ideas and accept new things, learn new knowledge, work hard in a pioneering spirit, and strive to promote the agricultural and rural economic development with their own intelligence and talents. Women's federations at various levels, with the guidance of the ideas 'three represents,' should focus on the rural reform, development and stability, be more active to meet the need of rural women for knowledge and income increasing, promote the activity 'Double Learning and Double Emulation' and the program 'To Help Women Earn More Income Through Science and Technology,' improve ceaselessly rural women's scientific and cultural knowledge, and make efforts to cultivate the women pacesetters of increasing incomes through science and technology."
The Ten Best Rural Women, the Ten Best Women at Forestation, the Advanced Capable Women of "Double Learning and Double Emulation," the Excellent Workers and Advanced Collectives of Scientific and Technological Service, and the winners of the March 8 Green Medal and March 8 Quality Green Project were awarded at the conference. The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) also awarded Han Shuqin and others the title of "National March 8 Red-Banner Pacesetter."
　　In China's rural areas, 5.37 million women became literate in the past three years, 63 million women participated in the training of new farming skills, 1.625 million women gained green certificates, planting over 750 million trees altogether, 17,000 projects with women as the main labor force and 163,000 demonstration bases for science and technology were set up, and 720 million yuan small-loans for poverty alleviation were provided, helping 4.6 million women get rid of poverty.
　　Peng Peiyun, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee and President of the ACWF, and Chen Muhua, Honorary President of the ACWF, attended the conference. Gu Xiulian, Vice President and First Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, presided over the conference.

Commendation Meeting of "China's Charity Day for Children" Held in Beijing
　　On July 22, the first large-scale public welfare activity--"China's Charity Day for Children" held a commendation meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Co-sponsored by China Children and Teenagers' Fund and China Charity Federation, with the theme of "concern for the future, help school drop-outs," the activity has aroused a wide response from society since it started in February this year. Through various forms of "one day donations for children" charity activities, about 100 million people have participated and 130 million yuan and more than 43 million yuan worth of goods have been collected, which provides a strong guarantee for helping more poor children.
　　Wu Yi, Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, State Councilor and Director of the National Working Committee on Children and Women Under the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. She said that helping the poor and happily giving to charities are good traditions of the Chinese nation. Carrying out regular social donations plays an important role in solving poor people's difficulties, so the Party Central Committee and the State Council have attached great importance to the activity and called on the whole of society to support it. Through building up a bridge to convey loving care, the "China's Charity Day for Children" activity is able to use the funds raised to support students from poor families to finish school, which is very meaningful for promoting the development of children and their part in societal progress. So it is indeed a good activity for public welfare.
　　At the meeting, outstanding contributors to the activity were commended, 113 institutions, including People's Daily, 42 cities, including Nanping in Fujian Province, and 72 individuals were awarded "Public Welfare Star Unit," "Public Welfare Star City," "China's Philanthropist for Children" and "China's Charity Ambassador for Children," respectively.
　　The organizational committee of the China's Charity Day for Children announced at the meeting that according to the principles of transparent funding, respecting the willingness of donators and giving priority to the poorest children, it will allocate 89.61 million yuan of funds and 41.30 million yuan worth of goods to the Western regions. The donations will support the cause of basic education and help school drop-outs and children of urban laid-off workers and staffs to finish school. Hence it has arranged to support the Western provinces to run 242 Spring Bud Classes, to help orphans to go to schools, and to support the "Smile Project" aimed at curing children with cleft lips, altogether 12 big projects.
　　Peng Peiyun, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee and President of the All-China Women's Federation, Yang Rudai and Zhao Nanqi, both Vice Chairpersons of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chen Muhua, President of China Children and Teenagers' Fund, and Fan Baojun, General Director of China Charity Federation, also attended the commendation meeting.

Governments and Women's Federations Push Women's Participation in Politics
　　Along with the carrying out of the Program for the Development of Chinese Women (2001--2010), governments and women's federations at local levels have strengthened their work for women's participation in politics, creating an encouraging situation.

　　In recent years, governments at all levels in Gansu Province have persisted in taking the selection of women cadres as an important task. The percentage of women participating in politics in the province rose significantly after the work meeting on bringing up and selecting women cadres in the province. Managerial departments at all levels attached importance to the grass roots and took the advantageous chance of the township re-election, which took place from the end of last year to early this year, to select women cadres. After the re-election, the range of women cadres in leading groups rose 15.67 percent from that of 1999. By April this year, all Party and governmental leading groups at provincial level had allocated women, 78.6 percent at prefecture level, 88.4 percent at county level and 77.8 percent at township level.

　　To raise the percentage of women's participation in politics in Heilongjiang Province, the Provincial Women's Federation took the opportunity of this and next years' re-election in the Party committee, people's congress, government and political consultative conference at all levels in the province and submitted a report on strengthening women's participation in the re-election of new leaders to the provincial leading groups, including the Provincial People's Congress, the Organizational Department of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial United Front Work Department. The report suggests after the re-election, the percentage of women deputies in the people's congress at provincial, municipal (prefecture), county (district) and township levels should be raised from the present 20.9 percent to 23 percent, 20.6 percent to 23 percent, 25 percent to over 25 percent and 23 percent to 25 percent, respectively. In addition, female members of the political consultative conference at provincial, municipal (prefecture), county (district) levels should be raised from the present 16.17 percent, 12.57 percent and 17.98 percent to more than 18 percent.
　　The report also suggests seizing the opportunity of the re-election to push forward the implementation of the Heilongjiang Provincial Program for Women's Development in 2001--2010, and selecting excellent women cadres to enter the leading groups at all levels. The leading groups of the Party committee, people's congress, government and political consultative conference at provincial and municipal (prefecture) levels should include at lease one woman. The leading groups of the Party committee and government at county (city and district) and township levels should also include at lease one woman. The provincial and municipal (prefecture) Party and government departments should allocate women cadres in over half of the leading groups and priority should be given to women to be selected to the leading groups in the departments of organization, personnel, education, science and technology, culture, sanitation, economy and trade, sports, family planning, civil affairs, judicial affairs, labor and social security, trade unions and Youth League. In other trades, particularly enterprises and institutions dominated by women workers and staffs, more women cadres should be selected.
The report has aroused great attention from relevant departments of the provincial government, and their chief leaders have fully affirmed the work done by the Provincial Women's Federation and put forward concrete demands on what role women's federations should play in pushing forward women's participation in elections and politics.

　　With the support of the provincial government, women's federations at all levels in Henan Province seized the opportunity of the organizational reform and cadres' redistribution and actively recommended outstanding women cadres to local governments. Therefore, the percentage of women cadres in the leading groups at county and city levels was raised, uplifting women's participation in politics up to a new level.
　　Gushi County promoted five women cadres at the section chief level through the organizational reform. The percentage of chief officials among women cadres has risen greatly: the number in the township Party and government leading groups increased from one to five and in the leading groups directly under the county government, the number increased from six to 10.
　　The Wuzhi Women's Federation wrote a report on women's participation in politics in the county based on an investigation, which aroused the county leaders' attention. In the redistribution of township cadres in 2002, 13 outstanding women cadres were promoted, which made up 25 percent of the total promoted.
　　Dengzhou City promoted 19 women leaders in total in 2002. Of its 29 townships, there are 40 women leaders, and among them four are the chief leaders.
　　During the organizational reform, eight women cadres in Puyang's urban district have been promoted from deputy section chiefs to section chiefs, 23 promoted to deputy section chiefs and 15 women have been selected to the leading groups of some Party and government departments in the district, which covering 48.4 percent of the total leading groups, 22.6 percent increase than one before the organizational reform. There are 18 women cadres in nine township Party and government leading groups, covering 100 percent of the leading groups.
　　Taiqian County adopted the method combining assessment, recommendation and examination and openly selected 18 women leaders for labor, personnel, finance and other departments. Among them, the former head of the county women's federation was promoted to director of the personnel department, which greatly inspired the working enthusiasm of the staff from the women's federation. Through the organizational reform, nine townships in the county have allocated 13 women cadres and four of the township leading groups have allocated two women cadres.

　　In the re-election of village heads in Enping City, Guangdong Province, women were elected with a quite high percentage. In the 190 villagers' committees, 201 women were elected; among them two women were elected as the members in every villagers' committee in 11 villages, three women were elected as villagers' committee heads, and three as deputies. The Enping Women's Federation seized the opportunity of the re-election of village heads, coordinated with all sides and actively made efforts to obtain the support from relevant government departments, thus smoothly finishing women cadres' allocation in villagers' committees. The federation has striven to do the following things:
　　It had undergone early preparations. Before the re-election of villagers' committees, the women's federation conducted an investigation to understand the actual situation and submitted a report on keeping the stability of women cadres in the organizational reform to the city government. In the process of re-election, it exchanged information with township governments and recommended appropriate candidates, helping find outstanding women cadres at grass roots. It has recommended altogether more than 50 young, capable women cadres with good caliber as candidates to villagers' committees.
　　t had substantially coordinated work. Fully seizing the opportunity of re-election at city and village levels, the women's federation actively coordinated with other members of the leading group for the election and feasibly strengthened the guidance of the re-election. It held a special meeting to coordinate relevant departments for the re-election. Its staffs transferred to the re-election office and sent back information on time. It also organized people to conduct a follow-up investigation at grass roots, timely exchanged ideas with local Party committees and coordinated with them to solve problems.

　　To strengthen the establishment of the contingent of rural women cadres and further improve the women's organizations at the village level, the Siyang Women's Federation of Jiangsu Province coordinated with the organizational department of the county's Party committee to carry out the experiment of "three recommendations and one election." The three recommendations indicate the woman recommended by the villagers' committee, Youth League, enterprise, school and villagers' group, the woman recommended by over 20 villagers and the woman recommended by herself. Then a joint meeting of villagers and women deputies was held to elect the women's head of the village who is honest and upright, can handle affairs democratically, has the courage to do pioneering work and has the support of the masses. After the experiment, the Siyang Women's Federation will adopt the method in 48 villages to elect the women's heads.

Two Web Stations Start Operation for Rural Women
　　On June 21, two rural web stations began service in their demonstrative spot--Huxian County, Shaanxi Province. Sponsored by the All-China Women's Federation and Jiuyi Web, the two stations aim to guide rural women to learn science and technology and provide information about science and technology in farming. On June 24, another demonstrative spot of the two stations had an opening ceremony in Dali County of the province. While at the same time, two schools for rural women opened in the spots too.
　　For agriculture, countryside and farmers, the two stations will provide useful and reliable information about technology and marketing to help farmers solve problems in production. Now throughout the country there are in total 18 demonstrative spots of the two stations, each equipped with five computers, one set of 34-inch colored TV, one printer, one switchboard, a set of satellite receiving equipment and one IP telephone of Jiuyi Star. The two stations will strive to upgrade the caliber of the rural population, especially that of women, to raise the competitiveness of China's agricultural products in international markets and to provide support to help farmers increase production and become financially independent.

Local Women's Federations Help Rural Women Farm Scientifically

Jilin Province: Reading Scientific and Technological Books in the Village
　　To help farmers, women in particular, increase their knowledge of science and technology, the Jilin Women's Federation carried out the activity encouraging villagers to read scientific and technological books in their own villages. Thus an increase in the reading of books about science and technology in the countryside began, and a road leading to prosperity for farmers all over the province was created.
　　The activity aims at helping the poor through science and technology information. It mainly includes donating books about science and technology as well as facilities for culture and sports to farmers in economically less developed rural areas, in the form of social support, fairs to popularize science, and training classes, as well as organizing scientific and technological workers to send knowledge and information to the countryside. The women's federation called on people from enterprises, institutions and all social circles to support the activity. The funds are to be collected in the principle of voluntary donations.

The criteria for the village is:
　　1. The village subscribes to more than 100 sets of books and magazines on popularizing farming in scientific ways. On average, one book or magazine is available for three to five families.
　　2. There are one cultural activity room and more than three facilities for culture and sports in the village.
　　3. One training class in science and technology is held for villagers.
　　4. More than three farm technicians are brought up in the village.
　　The activity, which started from June 2002 and is to end on December 30, 2005, strives to help 100 villages reach to the criteria with provincial support, 50 with support from city (prefecture) and 10 with county support. Consequently, the total number of such villages will reach 5,000, making up 50 percent of the total in the province.

Guangdong Province: Making the Vehicle of Science and Technology
　　Recently, more than 400 farmers crowded into the 300-person capacity government meeting room of Tangtang Township in Fogang County, Guangdong Province, with more standing outside the door and windows. They went there from all sides of the township to attend the ceremony of inviting experts of science and technology to establish contact with farmers. It was the activity "Making the Vehicle of Science and Technology" sponsored by the Guangdong Women's Federation.
　　At the ceremony, more than 40 experts and technicians of agricultural science from provincial universities and research institutes were offered the letters of appointment and set up contact with 370 families, which are either poor households or those engaged in large scale farming and poultry raising. After the ceremony, the experts and technicians provided advice on the spot and answered farmers' questions. Some experts went to the fields to give farmers instructions. Regarding the farmers' eagerness of learning, the experts said they could offer them advice anytime through phone calls no matter what problems the farmers come across. They also confirmed that they would let farmers know the newest information about technology and new varieties in farm production.
The activity "Making the Vehicle of Science and Technology" started in 1999, aiming at helping rural women get rid of poverty and become financially independent through grasping farm technology. In 2001, the federation also mobilized personnel of farm technology in provincial institutions to send knowledge to the countryside. Thus, a bridge between experts and rural women has been set up. According to incomplete statistics since 2000, more than 1,200 experts and technicians in the province set up contract with 30,000 villagers, who are mainly women of either poor households or those specialized in farming and poultry raising. They helped quite a number of women shake off poverty and spurred some women to enlarge and upgrade their production, which has played an important role in improving rural women's comprehensive caliber and forwardly implementing the strategy of thriving agriculture through science and technology.

Qinghai Province: Sending Science and Technology to the Countryside
　　In May 2002, the Qinghai Women's Federation organized 15 women experts in farming, forestry, animal husbandry and medical treatment, as well as women technological workers, to go to Shenzhong Village in Huangyuan County to spread knowledge about farming, poultry raising, forestry, and women and children's health. About 200 people attended the lectures or sought advice and about 100 received medical consultations. While giving lectures and answering villagers' questions, the group of experts also promoted the idea of advocating science, opposing pseudo-science and resisting evil cults. They advocated living in a scientific, healthy and civilized way and introduced some common knowledge of nature, environmental protection and health as well as prevention of some common diseases. Their patient training and on-the-spot demonstrations greatly enlightened the villagers.
　　In addition, they also displayed many photos about "advocating science and opposing superstition," "using natural resource rationally and programming the protection of environment," "protecting the green homeland," "creating the future by science and technology," "knowledge of life," "convention for children's rights and interests," "law for protecting minors" and "knowing the earth rightly." The vivid photos attracted many villagers.

Henan Province: Training Rural Women in Science and Technology
　　Women's federations in Henan Province at all levels take training as the main method to improve rural women's caliber, to popularize science and technology for farming and to provide information and consultation. They have managed to enrich the contents of training and run various forms of practical training classes in different sizes and for different purposes, which give wings of science and technology to rural women. After attending the training classes, rural women are more eager and confident in becoming financially independent through increasing production. They focused on the following aspects:
　　1. Cooperated with relevant departments and made use of women's activity centers to run practical skills training for farming regularly and systematically in a standardized way. Helped rural women learn to read and write, to gain knowledge of science and technology, management, market, law, information and the web.
　　2. According to the development of agriculture and rural women's actual demands, they ran the training by combining it with the work of "demonstrative village of women becoming financially independent through science and technology" and "demonstrative village of women supporting the poor." In the poor areas, they focused on learning to read and write and teaching advanced technologies in farming, poultry raising and processing of farm products. In "demonstrative village of women supporting the poor," they strengthened the training of specialized technologies and knowledge of market economy. In "demonstrative village of women becoming financially independent through science and technology," they focused on the training of new technology to lead women to the production field for high quality, high beneficial result and high-tech content.
　　3. They ran the training classes by combining the advanced type with the popularized one and tried to give training not only for practical farm skills that suit for the majority of women but also for women farm technicians so as to attract more women to join the contingent of farm technicians or to obtain higher titles.
　　4. In methods, they organized scientific workers and volunteers to go deep into the countryside to run practical skills training classes and to carry out the activity of sending science and technology to the countryside, while they also organized rural women to have visits so as to broaden their views and increase their knowledge.
Women's federations at all levels in the province have actively carried out training to improve rural women's caliber in science and technology.
　　The Puyang Women's Federation has set its goal of training 10,000 women a year. To guarantee the fulfillment of the goal, it has established a top-to-bottom leader's responsibility system, carried out "Month of Popularizing Science and Technology for Rural Women" in the city, brought into play of members of the March 8 Specialized Technology Association, and carried out multiple category training of science and technology in different levels. The women's federation has invited experts from the Farming and Animal Husbandry Bureau to give practical skills training to 120 rural women so as to meet the challenge of China's membership in the World Trade Organization. The experts also went to the fields to give on-the-spot guidance concerning women's existing problems in farming.
　　In this April, the Xinmi Women's Federation and the Supporting the Poor Office co-sponsored a practical skills training class for women in the poor areas. During the training, they organized trainees to visit the honeysuckle-planting base in Niudian Town, cow raising demonstrative base in Yuecun Town and high-tech demonstrative garden in Liuzhai Town.
　　The Mengzhou Women's Federation organized a "Service Team of Sending Science and Technology to the Countryside" to tour the townships to give technical guidance in April. It cooperated with the city's Agricultural Bureau, Association of Science and Animal Husbandry Bureau to send 15 experts and capable hands to 13 townships. The team ran 18 trainings and lectures in raising cows and pigs and planting vegetables, cotton, medical herbs and other special plants, with more than 2,600 women attending. They also sent farmers 10,000 copies of books and materials on popular science.
　　The Zhecheng Women's Federation cooperated with relevant units to run a 10-day training class in Niucheng Township on raising poultry scientifically. More than 1,000 women received the training and their enthusiasm in raising pigs rose greatly. As a result the amount of livestock increased sharply.
　　The women's federations in Xinxiang County carried out a large scale training activity with the support of scientific research units. They have altogether run 64 terms of various farm skills training classes, offered consultations to 738 persons and distributed 24,600 copies of material and organized 84 experts to pass on knowledge of farming technology. In total 26,000 persons received the training.

The Activity of Small Credit in China Produces Effect

Fanchang County: Executing Strict and Standard Management
　　During the activity "small credit helping rural women become prosperous through science and technology," the Fanchang Women's Federation in Anhui Province made three strict checks and provided service. Since the activity began last year, noticeable results have appeared.
　　1. Set up a good network and chose prospective borrowers strictly. The women's federation adhered to the criteria of "five haves," that is to have education, skill, ability, credit and responsibility, to choose prospective borrowers and gave out cards to those qualified ones. Cadres of the women's federation supported poverty-stricken households with credit by being their guarantors.
　　2. Relied on market information and strengthened the guide to the investment of the small credit. It adhered to the two "guarantees": to guarantee the investment truly suits women, the local reality and the demands of markets and to guarantee the small credit funds provided by the state can be operated safely. Hence, the county women's federation strengthened the guide for the investment through media publicity, model demonstration, training of science and technology, and information services with the aim of encouraging women to invest funds in production scientifically.
　　3. Strengthened the service and executed strict and standardized management. The county women's federation made efforts to set up complete files of all borrowers, carry out follow-up management, provide them timely service throughout the project so as to reduce the risk of investment and guarantee the repayment of the credit. It has in total granted 2.675 million yuan of small credit since it carried the activity and every borrower increased 2,000 to 3,000 yuan of income with the aid of the small credit.

Jiaxing City: Carrying Out "Women Competition" for Three Years
　　Early in 2001, with the support of the Jiaxing government and its financial departments, the Jiaxing Women's Federation began to carry out the three-year work of "women competition" small credit with interests deducted. The first one million yuan of small credit involved 26 farm households in 12 townships and towns with the largest sum totaling 100,000 yuan and the smallest 5,000 yuan.
　　In order to guarantee the work continued healthily and safely, the women's federation and the city's financial bureau co-issued the paper on implementing the activity of "Women Competition" and standardizing the operations of small credit. After granting the credit, the women's federation tried to offer good follow-up service, to get to know the production situation of the borrowers. It also cooperated with agrotechnical departments to offer help to the borrowers in importing seeds and technical guidance.
　　At present, the first loans have supported three leading enterprises headed by women, three community services, 10 demonstrative bases for planting and poultry raising and five households with financial problems. The work has won the praise of women villagers and achieved social and economic effects simultaneously.

Chongqing: Implementing Small-Credit Recycling Project
　　China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF) initiated a small-credit recycling project to support the poor in towns and cities this year. Chongqing, one of the four trial cities, received CWDF's 100,000-yuan interest-free small credit donated by Marykay Fund. To forcefully carry out this one-year project, the Chongqing Women's 　　Federation set up a project implementation group, its Department of Urban Work is responsible for the management of the project and the Nan'an District Women's Federation is responsible for organizing the project. Based on the community, the project granted the small credit to unemployed women and single mothers willing to be engaged in the community service and with financial difficulties. The funds helped them to find jobs and to start companies. The Nan'an District Women's Federation soon worked out the plan to carry out the project on the basis of an investigation and aimed to find work for 50 unemployed women.
　　To guarantee the project to be implemented smoothly and bring out good social and economic effects, the project group will make scheduled and unscheduled inspections of the project sites. In the later period of the project, the project group will supervise and assess the implementation of the project through on-the-spot observations and visiting people around the project location. In addition, they will receive the CWDF's inspection and instruction any time so as to guarantee the success of the project.

"Keeping My Family Without Drugs"
　　Around International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking of June 26, 2002, women's federations in Shanghai City, and Guizhou, Qinghai and Yunnan Provinces further carried out the campaign "Keeping My Family Without Drugs."

　　On June 26, the Shanghai Narcotics Control Office, Public Security Bureau, Women's Federation, Judicial Bureau and other departments co-sponsored the large-scale publicity with the theme "community and family's affection and care help drug addicts stop using drugs and gain a new life."
More than 230 volunteers from Yangpu, Hongkou and other districts visited the Drug Quitting and Rehabilitation 　　Center and signed contracts to help and educate those who want to stop drug taking. Women's federations at 19 districts and counties together with relevant departments carried out the publicity against drug abuse in communities. Women volunteers gave publicity to residents through distributing materials and presenting theatrical performances.
　　It is revealed that among the more than 10,000 registered drug addicts in Shanghai, 40 percent are women. Women's federations at all levels in Shanghai have organized about 780 women volunteers who are very actively in communities and contribute a lot to help government departments carry out work against drug abuse and drug addicts give up using drugs.

　　Before "6.26" the Guizhou Women's Federation initiated publicity around the theme "Drug Abuse and AIDS" to start an upsurge against drug abuse. On June 22, the federation signed a responsibility pledge not to take drugs with all its sections and attached units as well as all cadres and staff members, the rate of signing got to over 96 percent. On June 23, according to the unified arrangement of the Provincial Narcotics Control Committee, more than 20 office staffs of the federation gave publicity in Guiyang, capital of the province, by distributing materials and setting up some display boards to fight against drug abuse.

　　Recently, the Qinghai Women's Federation issued an open letter entitled "Aim for Qualified Mother and Family Without Drug" to all mothers in the province, which was broadcasted over Qinghai Radio. It called all women in the province to participate in the activity of "Keeping My Family Without Drugs," striving for eradicating the soil breeding evil phenomenon like drug abuse.
　　On June 24, the federation organized people to go to the Provincial Center for Women's Drug Quitting and Reeducation Through Labor and Center for Reeducating Juvenile Delinquents Through Labor to salute the officers and policemen and visit the confined ones there. They also presented gifts to both the policemen and the confined people.
　　On June 26, the provincial women's federation and the women's federation in Chengxi District of Xining City carried out the publicity of "Keeping My Family Without Drugs" in Chengxi District, the trial one in the province and had "10 thousand people signing activity." More than 7,000 people, including provincial and district leaders and masses, signed their names. While at the same time, Hutai Community in Chengxi District carried out the activity of "community without drug abuse" and mobilized women and other residents actively participate in the publicity against drug abuse. Schools, work units and communities in Chengxi also engaged in various forms of publicities, such as making speeches and competitions on the knowledge against drug abuse.
　　Those activities further uplifted women's awareness against drug abuse and they became more enthusiastic and determined in combating against drug abuse.

　　To carry out the spirit of the Notice on Carrying Out the Activity of "Keeping My Family Without Drugs," co-issued by the All-China Women's Federation and China National Narcotics Control Commission, to purify the social environment and cultivate the awareness of starting for oneself bit by bit and starting from family to refuse to have pornography, gambling and drug in family, the Yunnan Women's Federation cooperated with 11 departments, including the Provincial Narcotics Control Office and the Comprehensive Maintaining Law and Order Office, to carry out the massive signing activity throughout the province. The activity lasted one year and eight months, 8.15 million people signing their names and 426,000 people participated in the competition on knowledge of drug abuse.
The publicity activity has made know against drug abuse to every household and won popular support. Through the activity of "Keeping My Family Without Drugs," the residents' awareness to reject the impairment brought by pornography, gambling and drug uplifted obviously and their sense of legality strengthened too. "To treasure life and refuse drugs" have become the common sense of the broad masses.

　　Hunan Helps 100,000 Women Shake Off Poverty Through Three Measures
In 2002, Hunan Province takes three major measures to carry out the "Women Support the Poor" Project to help rural women shake off poverty. The measures are as the following:
　　1. To strengthen training to uplift rural women's comprehensive caliber. The Hunan Women's Federation initiated to set up a batch of new technology and variety demonstrative bases to promote the combination of science and technology with production and continued the practical skill training. Its target in this year is to train 450,000 rural women in poverty-stricken areas and to help every woman grasp one or two practical farming skills.
　　2. To increase the input of funds to guarantee the smooth implementation of the "Women Support the Poor" Project. This year, the province plans to arrange three million yuan of financial funds and raise 100 million yuan of credit funds to make the project of increasing household's income a success.
　　3. To carry out "Heart-Linked-to-Heart Project," "Project of Science and Education" and "Foundation Project" in poor areas. It will continue to mobile social forces to help poor rural women through science and technology, education, small credit and the like.
　　Through above-mentioned ways of supporting the poor, Hunan Province endeavors to help 100,000 rural women to shake off poverty and help them to develop ecological farming by methane and small power station and to improve their living conditions and ecological environment.