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White paper: Gender Equality in China (full text)
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-08-24 11:12
The State Council Information Office published on Wednesday, August 24, a
white paper entitled Gender Equality and Women's Development in China.
The nine-chapter document discusses the progress China has made in
promoting gender equality and women's development over the last decade.
The full text of the white paper follows:
Gender Equality and Women's Development in China
Foreword
I. State Mechanism to Promote Gender Equality and Development of Women
II. Women and the Economy
III. Women and Poverty Elimination
IV. Women's Participation in Decision Making and Management
V. Women and Education
VI. Women and Health
VII. Women, Marriage and the Family
VIII. Women and the Environment
IX. Legal Guarantees of Women's Rights and Interests
Conclusion
Foreword
China is a developing country with the largest population in the world.
Of its total population of 1.3 billion, women account for about half.
Therefore, the promotion of gender equality and the overall development
of women is not only of great significance for China's development, it
also has a special influence on the efforts for the advancement of
mankind.
It has always been a basic state policy of China to promote equality
between men and women. Since New China was founded in 1949, especially
since the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s,
and along with the continuous growth of China's economy and the overall
progress of its society, women are being given more guarantees of
enjoyment of equal rights and opportunities with men and the development
of women is being given unprecedented opportunities.
In recent years, the Chinese government has made fairness and justice,
with gender equality included, an important part of efforts to build a
harmonious socialist society, and has utilized economic, legal,
administrative, public opinion and other measures to ensure that women
enjoy equal rights with men in terms of politics, economy, culture, and
social and family life, and continuously pushes forward women's
development in an all-round way.
The Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action adopted at the Fourth
UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 have produced great
influence in promoting the progress of gender equality and women's
development around the world. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the
conference, this white paper has been prepared to introduce to the rest
of the world China's progress in promoting gender equality and women's
development over the past decade.
I. State Mechanism to Promote Gender Equality and Development of Women
To promote gender equality and the development of women, China is making
unremitting efforts to improve its legal system to protect the rights and
interests of women, formulate and implement programs regarding women's
development, further improve relevant working organs, increase financial
input and strengthen social awareness.
The state has continuously intensified its efforts in the formulation,
revision and enforcement of relevant laws and regulations to protect the
legitimate rights and interests of women in earnest. As the supreme organ
of state power and the top legislative organ of China, the National
People's Congress and its Standing Committee have taken the protection of
women's rights and interests and the promotion of gender equality as a
key assignment, paid great attention to the formulation of laws
concerning women, seriously dealt with bills related to the protection of
women's legitimate rights and interests, and actively urged and
supervised the enforcement and implementation of relevant laws. The
Chinese government and its departments concerned have enforced laws and
formulated and implemented relevant administrative rules and regulations
to guarantee women's rights and interests, and promote gender equality.
China now has built a complete legal system concerning the protection of
women's rights and interests, and promotion of gender equality, based on
the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, and with the Law of
the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Rights and Interests
of Women as the main body and various separate laws and regulations,
local regulations and administrative rules adopted by various government
departments as supplementary provisions. The state judicial organs have
augmented their law enforcement steps, and punished the perpetrators of
various kinds of criminal infringements of women's rights and interests
in accordance with the law.
The state has enacted and implemented outlines for the development of
women, and included women's development in the overall plans of economic
and social development. The Outline for the Development of Chinese Women
is a national program of action to carry out the Platform for Action
adopted in 1995 in Beijing and push forward gender equality and women's
development in a comprehensive way. Since the goals set in the Outline
for the Development of Chinese Women (1995-2000) have been basically
realized, and to meet the demands of China's coordinated economic and
social development and the requirements of the UN Millennium Development
Goals, China promulgated in 2001 its Outline for the Development of
Chinese Women (2001-2010). The new document outlines 34 major goals and
100 policies and measures in six fields: women and the economy; women's
participation in decision-making and administration; women and education;
women and health; women and the law; and women and the environment. The
departments concerned under the State Council and local governments at
all levels have all worked out their own programs for the implementation
of the outline and plans for women's development in their respective
areas.
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