China Women's University Marks Its 70th Birthday

A ceremony to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of China Women's University is held in Beijing on December 6. [Women of China/Zhang Jiamin]

A ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the establishment of China Women's University (CWU) was launched in Beijing on December 6. 

Shen Yueyue, President of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF), delivered a speech at the ceremony. 

Shen pointed out that in the 70 years since its establishment, the CWU has educated a large number of talents in a unique way. She added that its achievements depended on the strong leadership of the Party and the pioneering spirit and hard work of generation after generation of its staff, as well as the great support of social circles. 

Shen Yueyue, President of the All-China Women's Federation, delivers a speech at the ceremony. [Women of China/Zhang Jiamin]

Shen urged the staff of the CWU to profoundly implement President Xi's remarks on education, women and women's work and to implement the Party's educational policies in an all-round way. 

She called on the staff to further enhance confidence in the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and ensure socialist ideas in its educational orientation, contributing to accelerated modernization of education. 

Shen noted that the CWU should promote socialist core values, strengthen the cultivation of good moral characters, and teach students to be talents who can take up the mission and responsibilities of the national rejuvenation. 

Shen urged the CWU to improve teachers' morality and teaching styles and to build the university into a base of training women cadres and women's federations' cadres and a window for Chinese women to exchange and communicate with people in foreign countries. It should also be made a cradle for cultivating talents who are able to promote gender equality and the development of women and children's cause and serve society and families, as well as a base for studying and innovating socialist women's theories with Chinese characteristics and family building theories. 

Shen Yueyue presents flowers to outstanding teachers at the ceremony. [Women of China/Zhang Jiamin]

Shen hoped that young students will connect their lives and personal ideals with the future of the motherland and the fate of the nation, and strive for the happiness of the people and national rejuvenation. 

Huang Xiaowei, Vice-President and First Member of the Secretariat of the ACWF, and Liang Yanshun, Deputy Minister of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, also attended the meeting. 

A series of events marking the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the CWU were held, including an exhibition and performance of teaching results, the third Chinese-Foreign Women's University Presidents Forum, a UNESCO Chair on Media and Gender Forum and the first Forum on Family Building in the New Era. The activities feature domestic and overseas experts and scholars discussing women-related topics and making suggestions on the cultivation of female talents, the development of women's colleges, the women's educational cause and women's development in an all-around way.

Students who participated in the activities marking the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1 receive awards at the ceremony. [Women of China/Zhang Jiamin]

(Women of China)