凤城妇联：关爱妇儿权益 构筑幸福家园

The Yinchuan Women＇s Federation （in Northwest China＇s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region）, in recent years, has scored outstanding achievements in improving women and children＇s lives, and in encouraging women to participate in the management and decision- making of social affairs.To protect women and children＇s legal rights and interests, the federation has taken the lead in establishing the home for women and women＇s rights-protection work station, and in formulating the system, in which lawyers take turns to handle （for free） women＇s letters and visits.     

共享蓝天，快乐成长——吉林省妇联关爱儿童试点工作取得良好成效

The Sharing Blue Sky, Growing Up Happily -- Caring For Children Project was implemented provincewide by Jilin Women＇s Federation on June 8. The project is intended to help disabled children, migrant children and left-behind children （in rural areas） to grow up in a healthy way. Officials from the women＇s federation intend to help 10,000 children, and their parents, this year.     

信息窗(英文)

At the national work meeting on children and women held from October 9 to 10, Premier Zhu Rongji called upon governments at all levels to safeguard legitimate rights for women and children and clear obstacles that impair women and children from advancing. He asked for further improvement of education for women and children, enhancement of women's participation in politics and social affairs and promotion of work concerned with women and children in the Western region.     

Federation Promotes Women＇s Handicrafts Brand for Charity

Mother＇s Art was established by Sichuan Women＇s Federation in October. The Mother＇s Art project is intended to spur development of the craft industry in Sichuan Province. Under the project, the women＇s federation provides financial assistance to underprivileged women, so they can acquire the skills needed to make crafts and, in turn, make money to care for their families. The project benefits women and children. Each woman who works in the province＇s craft industry, and each business that sells crafts made by the province＇s women, will join the project.     

Editors Discuss Women's Publications

IT was only about ten years ago that there were only a few of newspapers and periodicals about women in China. But China has seen a rapid development of newspapers and periodicals on women since it began the policy of reform and opening to the outside world. Today the All-China Women's Federation and local women's federations sponsor and publish 47 different publications about women and children, some of which have a circulation of more than one million. These colorful, influential women's newspapers and periodicals are now some of the most interesting publications in China. Why have these publications been so successful? Recently our staff reporter interviewed several women chief editors about their work. The following interviews are in their own words.     

儿童营养改善项目为贫困儿童送健康

The figures were alarming; in 2010, nearly 30 percent of the children under age 2 had anemia and more than 20 percent of the children under age 5 developed slower than ordinary children in poverty-stricken areas of China.
In 2012, the nutrition-improvement program （for children in poverty- stricken areas） was launched, in 100 impoverished counties in 10 provinces, by the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF）, to improve the nutrition and physical conditioning of the regions＇ young children. Each child, between 6 months and 2 years of age, receive a nutritional package, which contains protein, vitamin and mineral supplements, every day. Officials of local women＇s federations also share nutrition and health information with the kids＇ parents.     

中国妇女儿童博物馆的多彩藏品

The Museum of Chinese Women and Children is the first State-level museum to pay tribute to China's women and children. The colorful collections at the museum provide an insight into the history and lives of Chinese women and children.     

沈跃跃主持召开留守流动妇女儿童工作座谈会

Shen Yueyue, Vice-Chairperson of the NPC （National People＇s Congress） Standing Committee and President of the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF） on February 11, 2014, chaired the symposium on work related to migrant women and children and left-behind women and children. The symposium was held in Nanchang, capital of East China＇s Jiangxi Province.     

青岛市妇儿工委办进一步推进为妇女儿童办实事工作

The Shandong Provincial Party （Communist Party of China） Committee has included work related to the protection of women and children＇s legal rights and interests in the standards for the evaluation of government organs＇ work. Officials of the Qingdao （a city in East China＇s Shandong Province） Working Committee on Children and Women recently monitored the city＇s work related to women and children, and they concluded the city had done the following during the first half of this year：     

国务院妇儿工委办公室举办干部培训班(英文)

The National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW)'s office has, in recent years, attached great importance, by offering training, to the raising of cadres' vocational levels, and to improving the skills the cadres need to work on behalf of the nation's women and children. Since 2004, NWCCW's office has conducted 14 courses, and has trained about 1,700 cadres from local-level working committees on children and women. The courses have generally lasted 10 days. Gu Xiulian, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, has even spoken, during