Shen Yueyue, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the All-China Women's Federation, attends a work conference on the implementation of the law on family education promotion on December 14. [Women of China/Zhang Jiamin]

A work conference on the implementation of the law on family education promotion was held by the Office of National Working Committee on Children and Women (NWCCW) under State Council, the Ministry of Education, the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), the Supreme People's Court and six other ministries and state-level organs on December 14.

Shen Yueyue, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the ACWF, delivered a speech at the meeting.

Noting the importance of implementing the law on family education promotion, Shen stressed fulfilling the duty of women's federations to promote the law to women and families, highlighting the fundamental mission of fostering virtue through education, supporting parents educating their children in a scientific way, and taking well-coordinated steps toward constructing the system of family education guidance service.

Shen called for more efforts to care about the education of left-behind children whose parents have migrated to other places for work and children in need, organize activities of caring for and serving left-behind children and children in need on a regular basis, and strengthen the training of relevant personnel on family education.

Other participating ministries and state-level organs also deployed their work on the implementation of the law at the meeting.

Huang Xiaowei, Deputy Director of the NWCCW under State Council, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, presided over the meeting.

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)