速读

Chinese Diplomat Elected to International Court of Justice Chinese diplomat Xue Hanqin was elected to the International Court of Justice （ICJ） on June 29. She is the first Chinese woman to serve on the Court.     

从藏家牧女到“飞天仙女”

Flying a helicopter over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is extremely difficult.The first group of young Tibetans in a helicopter-pilot program obtained their commercial helicopter-pilot licenses after extensive training.Jianreyixi,a native of Damxung County,in Lhasa,capital of Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region,was one of the recipients.She liked to make and fly paper planes on the prairie when she was a child.She never thought,though,she would grow up to become a pilot.     

友好交流与合作

Huang Meets President of Hanns Seidel Foundation黄晓薇会见德国汉斯•赛德尔基金会主席Huang Xiaowei,Vice・President and First Member of the Secretariat of the All.China Women's Federation(ACWF),met a nine.mcmber German women's delegation in Beijing on November 18,2019.The delegation was headed by Ursula Mannle,preside nt of Hanns Seidel Foundation(HSS),Germany.Huang outlined the significance and important spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC).She explained the achievements in women*s progress since the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949.She spoke of the cooperative relations between the ACWF and the HSS.     

维权直通车

Guizhou Promulgates Anti-Domestic Violence Regulations.To protect residents'(especially women and children's)legal rights and interests,Southwest China's Guizhou Province adopted the Anti-domestic Violence Regulations of Guizhou Province during the I3th Session of the Standing Committee of the 13th Provincial People's Congress,which was held on November 28,2019.The regulations,the first of the kind in a province in western China,took effect on March 1,2020.     

Ruijin Women in the Period of the Red Army (Ⅰ)

IN the 1930's, the power of the Communist Party of China was first born in southern China. Women cut their hair short and unbound their feet. Women gained freedom of choice in marriage and fought side by side with men. Fighting for Respect The first red political power of China's Soviet Republic was born in the boundary region of Jiangxi and Fujian provinces in November of 1931. Covering 35 counties with a population of 3     

Resumes of Newly Elected High Ranking Women Officials

Peng Peiyun (1929- ), native of Liuyang, Hunan Province. She was elected Vice Chairman of the 9th NPC Standing Committee in 1998. A graduate of the Sociology Department of Qinghua University, she joined the Democratic Youth League in 1945, and the Communist     

Mother—My First Teacher

MY first teacher was my mother. It was she who taught me to read. It was she who planted in my heart a profound love of Chinese literature. She was also the one who set me on the road to independence. Today, I am teaching others—I am an associate professor of Chinese language and literature at the Central Institute for Finance and Banking, a member of the Chinese Poetry Society, a member of the     

Promises

AT dusk, I switched on my radio. What I heard was a special call-in program entitled "New Air of the City," on a local music channel; the two silver-tongued hosts were discussing the topic of promises. A young woman with a soft voice managed to get through first. She said that she had been in love for many years. She and her fiance often went to the banks of the Yangtze River in their spare time, lifting stones to look for small crabs, as tiny as fingernails. They liked to raise the crabs in a glass bowl. But one day, there were few stones by the river; they searched for a long time, but found nothing. An old man who was catching fish told them that it was difficult to find those crabs on the bank. Then he took several crabs out of his     

身影(英文)

Wang Guangmei王光美China's former first lady, Wang Guangmei, who died on October 13, received the China Poverty Eradication Award, posthumously, in recognition of her poverty-alleviation achievements, in Beijing on October 17, chinanews.com recently reported. Wang, the wife of late Chinese President Liu Shaoqi, died of heart and kidney failure at a Beijing military hospital. She was 85.     

中国摄影家眼中的非洲（一）

The Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation,held in November 2006,was a milestone in the history of Sino-Africa pledged to establish a new strategic partnership between China and Africa;     

FROM THE CHINESE PRESS

Public Procurators Group Established in Beijing The China Women Public Procurators Association was established November 17, 1994, when the regulations were passed. Chen Muhua and Qian Zhengying are honorary presidents of this association. Huang Qizao, Vice-President of the All-China Women's Federation, and Jurist Yan Rui are advisers. It is estimated that there are now 26,000 women public procurators in Beijing, accounting for 15.7 percent of the national total.     

Young Scientist—Lei Luhua

AT the end of 1992, chemistry professor Lei Luhua, 29, became the youngest woman professor in China. She was the first person in the world to construct a structual model of urokinase. She also advocated a program that could enhance the specificity of trypsin by substituting surface residues, avoiding the prob-     

畅销书

The book is the fourth in Wang Anyi＇s non-fiction series. It includes 58 of her essays, each of which records Wang＇s memory and understanding of an individual. The book focuses on renowned celebrities, including writer Ba Jin, film director Chen Kaige, painter Chert Danqing and actor Ge You, and ordinary people, including a postman and a handicraft worker. Each has impressed Wang, lor one reason or another. Wang, a Chinese professor with Fudan University, is Vice- Chairwoman of the Chinese Writers＇ Association. She is the first Chinese woman to be nominated for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize （2011）.     

"Spring Buds" Moistened by Rain and Dew——Chen Muhua and Her Family Help Nine Girls Return Schools

THE China Central Television cameras were rolling on evening of December 19, 1994, when hostess Ni Ping ushered nine young girls to Chen Muhua, Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress and president of the All-China Women's Federation, who was sitting in the audience. The girls     

国际交流(英文)

National Workshop on Gender Statistics Held全国性别统计研讨会议举行On April 27 and 28,2007,the National Workshop on Gender Statistics,the first meeting of its kind in China, was held in Nanchang,capital of Jiangxi Province. The event was sponsored by the Office of the National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW),which is under the State Council,the     

促进女性进入村民委员会(英文)

A promotion meeting, aimed at "helping rural women become elected to villagers' committees," was recently held in Tanggu District, Tianjin. Organized by the Working Committee on Children and Women of Tianjin, the Tianjin Women's Federation and the Civil Affairs Bureau of Tianjin, the meeting was aimed at raising the proportion of women members on villagers' committees in     

Degyi Dolkar,Vice Mayor of Lhasa

LHASA, the capital city of Tibet Autonomous Region, is the political, economic and cultural center of Tibet. Degyi Dolkar, of Tibetan nationality, is a vice mayor there. Degyi was born and brought up on the Tibetan Plateau, the nearest place to the sun, with its pure blue sky and beautiful clouds. She deeply loves her hometown and takes pride in it. Degyi Dolkar is kind and happy. She was one of the first group of people to be selected by the Tibetan government to go inland to study after the Tibetan democratic reforms of 1959. Then she studied to be a medical practitioner at the Tibet Institute of     

第五届中美妇女领导者交流对话会在美召开

On the sidelines of the fourth round of the China-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange, the Fifth China-US Women＇s Leadership Exchange and Dialogue （WLEAD Dialogue） was held, in the US, on November 21. The event, with the theme ＂Women, Science and Education,＂ was co-chaired by the All-China Women＇s Federation （ACWF） and the US Secretary＇s Office of Global Women＇s Issues.     

记录(英文)

Athens Olympic Torch Relays in Beijing雅典奥运圣火在北京传递The Olympic flame cast its glow in Beijing for the first time on June 9 as a high-profile torch relay for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games was held in the Chinese capital.The olive-leaf-shaped torch was lit at 9:16 a.m. (0116 GMT) at the East Gate of the Great Hall of the People by Tian'anmen Square in downtown Beijing. Then it was passed from one bearer to the next on a specially marked route that passed through the city's most famous landmarks including the Heaven of Temple and the Forbidden City.A total of 148 torchbearers, aged 14 to 73, took part in the relay. The list of torchbearers was a who's who of Chinese sport, and also involved people from all walks of life.     

国际交流(英文)

ACWF Participates in FOCAC Beijing Summit全国妇联参与中非合作论坛北京峰会The Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held on November 4-5,2006. Prior to the summit, the Fifth Senior Officials' Meeting and the Third Ministerial Conference of FOCAC were held in Beijing. Zhao Shaohua, Vice-President and Member of the Secretariat of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), attended the summit's opening ceremony. Zhao, Gu Xiulian, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National