2nd Plenary Meeting of Board of Directors of League of Chinese Women's Colleges Convenes in Beijing

Professor Li Mingshun, secretary of the CPC committee of China Women's University (CWU), addressed the meeting on behalf of the host. [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

The second plenary meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of Chinese Women's Colleges was held in Beijing on October 12.

Wang Weiguo, standing deputy director of the Office of the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council, praised the league for its historical and fundamental missions, and for taking on board its significant responsibilities.

Wang hoped that women's universities can fully implement the guidelines of the speech by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping at the high-level Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, held at the UN headquarters in New York on September 27.

He encouraged women's universities to take the overall situation into account, strengthen the alliance of their colleges and departments, and develop the league to further foster students and highlight women's studies.

Professor Li Mingshun, secretary of the CPC committee of China Women's University (CWU), addressed the meeting on behalf of the host.

He said that since the league was established in November 2014, women's universities have frequented their interactions and exchanges, and cooperated more in seminars on female university students' employment and startups. They have also been involved in training on leadership, women's education, gender studies and other subjects.

Against a backdrop where universities are challenged with urgent missions such as making goals for the 13th Five-Year Plan and deepening comprehensive reform in education, women's universities are also faced with pressing issues. These include how to explore the path of their development and innovation; how redefine their concepts, positions, methods, strategy and modes to adapt to current situations; and, how to complete their historical mission, Li said.

Li stressed that the league needs to play a role as a community of interests, a platform for cooperation and the secretariat of China's women's universities, as well as help them develop.

During the summary, CWU President and League President Liu Liqun said that since its founding, the league has been exploring, expanding and upgrading, and that it would seize the opportunity of the commemorations of the 20th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women to continue to grow, unite its forces, learn about the advantages of each member organization, and contribute to the women and children's further development.

The league's secretariat reviewed and summarized the work done over the past year. The secretariat interpreted the league's logo and the design of its website, and discussed plans for the Third National Employment and Startups Seminar for Female University Students.

The meeting approved the applications of Nanjing Normal University's Ginling College, Shanghai Normal University's Women's College of Culture, and Xi'an Peihua University's Women's College to join the league, and appointed three heads of the organizations as directors.

Wang and Li granted the new member organizations and directors with certificates and name plates.

The League of Chinese Women's Colleges was jointly established by the CWU, Shandong Women's University and Hunan Women's University. It aims to strengthen exchange and interactions between domestic women's universities, jointly study and explore patterns of women's university education, integrate and share outstanding education resources, supplement each other's weaknesses, and promote reform and development of women's university education. It is a non-profit and non-legal-person alliance of universities which member organizations join on a voluntary basis.

The second plenary meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of Chinese Women's Colleges was held in Beijing on October 12. [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

The league grants the new member organizations and directors with certificates and name plates. [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

The league grants the new member organizations and directors with certificates and name plates. [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

CWU President and League President Liu Liqun [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

The second plenary meeting of the Board of Directors of the League of Chinese Women's Colleges was held in Beijing on October 12. [Women of China/Zhang Ping]

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