3. Xi on women

Xi Jinping emphasizes during collective conversation with members of All-China Women’s Federation’s new leadership team:

Unswervingly follow the path of socialist women’s development with Chinese characteristics

Organize and mobilize women to contribute their strength to China’s modernization drive

Cai Qi attended the meeting

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 30 – Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, held a collective conversation with members of the new leadership team of the All-China Women’s Federation in Zhongnanhai on the afternoon of the 30th and delivered an important speech. Xi Jinping emphasized that comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization requires the united struggle of all people, and the role of women is irreplaceable. We must unswervingly follow the path of socialist women’s development with Chinese characteristics, encourage women to have self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement, forge ahead on a new journey, build a new era of success, and contribute women’s wisdom and strength to China’s modernization drive.

Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, participated in the collective conversation.

Xi Jinping first said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has comprehensively strengthened its leadership on women’s work, promoted the reform of the Women’s Federation, continuously improved the legal system for the protection of women’s rights and interests, continued to optimize the development environment for women, and promoted historic achievements in women’s causes. In the past five years, women’s federations at all levels have conscientiously implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, effectively fulfilled their responsibilities of leadership, service, and contact, and mobilized and organized women to promote high-quality development, win a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, fight against poverty, fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, and promote science and technology. We have fought bravely on the main battlefields of innovation and rural revitalization, innovatively promoted the construction of family education and family tradition, provided rights protection and care services with heart and soul, continued to deepen the reform of the Women’s Federation, continuously enhanced its political nature, advanced nature, and mass character, and further played its role as a bridge and link. The Party Central Committee fully affirms the work of the Women’s Federation and has high expectations for the new leadership team of the All-China Women’s Federation.

Xi Jinping emphasized that women’s causes and the work of the Women’s Federation must always adhere to the correct political direction and work together with the Party. We must uphold the party’s overall leadership, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee. We must always maintain political sobriety and determination, firmly grasp the political nature of China’s women’s cause and the political positioning of women’s federations, strengthen women’s ideological and political guidance, and persist in using the thoughts of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era to guide the majority of women. Unswervingly listen to and follow the Party.

Xi Jinping pointed out that we must closely focus on implementing the strategic deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, identify the focus of work, and translate the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee into specific tasks for the work of the Women’s Federation. It is necessary to encourage women to play their own advantages and active roles in implementing new development concepts, building a new development pattern, promoting high-quality development, achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.

Xi Jinping emphasized that only with harmonious families, good family education, and correct family traditions can children grow up healthily and society develop healthily. Doing a good job in women’s work is not only related to women’s own development, but also related to family harmony, social harmony, national development and national progress. It is necessary to tell good family tradition stories, guide women to play their unique role in carrying forward the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, establish good family traditions, and create a new trend of family civilization. It is necessary to actively cultivate a new culture of marriage and childbearing, strengthen guidance on young people’s views on marriage, childbirth, and family, promote the improvement and implementation of fertility support policies, improve the quality of population development, and actively respond to the aging of the population.

Xi Jinping pointed out that protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children, promoting equality between men and women, and the all-round development of women and children are important elements of Chinese-style modernization. Women’s federations at all levels should take proactive actions and strive to solve outstanding problems that affect and infringe on the rights and interests of women and children. It is necessary to care for and assist low-income women, elderly women, disabled women and other women in need, and cooperate with relevant departments to provide caring services for migrant children and left-behind children. The work of safeguarding the rights and interests of women and children must be done on a daily basis, on a regular basis, and at the grassroots level.

Xi Jinping emphasized that the Women’s Federation is a bridge between the party and the government and the women. We must focus on maintaining and enhancing the political, advanced and mass nature of the Women’s Federation, continue to deepen the organizational reform of the Women’s Federation, focus on making up for shortcomings, strengthen weak areas, lay the foundation and increase vitality, and comprehensively strengthen the construction of the Women’s Federation Party. It is necessary to establish a clear direction of focusing on the grassroots, conduct in-depth investigations and studies, understand the thoughts and expectations of grassroots women and the urgent needs of women’s work, and promote more resources and services to be tilted towards the grassroots. It is necessary to increase efforts to establish women’s federations in new fields such as new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups to achieve full coverage, follow the online mass line, and consolidate the women’s mass foundation for the party’s governance. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of a team of high-quality and professional women’s federation cadres, and continuously enhance the ability to promote high-quality development of women’s causes, serve the broad masses of women, and prevent and resolve risks in the women’s field.

Xi Jinping pointed out that party committees at all levels must adhere to the principle of party management of women’s work, implement the basic national policy of gender equality, strengthen leadership over the work of women’s federations, promptly study and solve important issues in the work of women’s federations, and provide support and create conditions for women’s federation organizations to carry out their work. The women and children’s working committees of governments at all levels must effectively play their functional roles, strengthen organization, coordination, guidance and supervision, and implement various decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee on the development of women and children’s undertakings.

On behalf of the new leadership team of the All-China Women’s Federation, Chen Yiqin, Chairman of the All-China Women’s Federation, reported on the relevant situation of the 13th China Women’s Congress and the next work considerations. Vice-chairmen of the All-China Women’s Federation Huang Xiaowei, Meng Man and Wang Yaping made speeches.

Shi Taifeng, Li Ganjie, Li Shulei, Chen Wenqing and Liu Jinguo participated in the conversation.