Lu Weiying, chief expert and senior doctor with the reproductive medicine center at Hainan Women and Children Medical Center (in south China's Hainan Province), for the past 35 years has devoted herself to clinical treatments, education and scientific research related to gynecology and reproductive medicine. She has led her team in using assisted reproductive technologies in the treatments of more than 100,000 women.

Lu, a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has visited schools, hospitals and health commissions in several cities/counties in Hainan to collect firsthand data. In 2023, Lu won an award for being a national political advisor who did an excellent job in fulfilling her duties. 

Throughout the years, Lu's proposals have focused on how to boost both the birth rate and the high-quality development of the population. She has urged governments, at all levels, to promote premarital checkups as a way to reduce birth defects, and she has proposed the inclusion of sex and reproductive-health education in China's nine-year compulsory education, and in normal schools' teaching systems. She has also suggested governments give more support to the development of inclusive childcare facilities for children aged 0-3.

Lu vows safeguarding women and children's health will always be her priority, and she says she will strive to make more contributions to the building of a birth-friendly society. 

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(Women of China)

Editor: Lei Yang