CWU Student Wins Beijing Municipal Filial Daughter Award

Beijing Municipal Government announced its annual Filial Sons and Daughters awards recently. Wang Liping, a student from the Gender and Social Development School at China Women's University (CWU), was among those honored this year.

Wang comes from a poverty-stricken family without a stable source of income. As the first-born, she was generous, considerate, and dutiful to her parents from an early age. During school, she studied hard and won the national motivational scholarship several times.

In her spare time, she threw herself into public service. As a leader of CWU's Volunteer Public Service Team, she led some 800 volunteers to participate in all kinds of voluntary service, and spent more than 1,200 hours in public service. As a student who majored in social work, she has combined professional theory with practice, tailored a service program for the elderly, provided them better service from the perspective of social work, and raised a "blue sky with love".

"As a daughter, I am responsible in honoring my parents. As a junior, I must have the quality of filial piety. As a volunteer, I fully practice the socialist core values; and as a professional social server, caring about the elderly is the path I must take to fulfill the professional values", Wang said. "I'll continue to carry forward the traditional virtue of filial piety, and contribute to the society with practical actions in the future", she added.

The activity was first held in 2010. It aimed to carry forward the Chinese traditional virtues of "Respecting the Elderly, Provide for the Aged, Love the Aged, Helping the Elderly, and Show Respect to Parents". As one of the themed activities for promoting the construction of happy families and a harmonious society, the organizers selected 10,000 contributing members as candidates.

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