First Forum on Family Building in New Era Opens in Beijing
 |
|
Wang Weiguo, Deputy Director of the Office of the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council, delivers a speech at the First Forum on Family Building in the New Era and a seminar on family discipline in China in Beijing. [China Women's University] |
China Women's University (CWU) held the First Forum on Family Building in the New Era and the Fourth Seminar on Family Discipline in China in Beijing on December 7-8.
A group of officials of the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) and women's federations at all levels, as well as experts and scholars from institutions of higher learning and research institutes, discussed key social issues covering family civilization, family education, domestic services and family research at the forum.
Compared with the previous sessions, this year's seminar attached greater importance to the new demands, expectations, conditions and challenges in China's family building.
It strived to integrate the theoretical research achievements on family discipline with the work of women's federations and promote socialist core values in families.
Wang Weiguo, Deputy Director of the Office of the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council, made a speech at the meeting.
 |
|
Li Mingshun, Secretary of the Party Committee of the CWU, introduces the university's development of family disciplines at the forum. [China Women's University] |
The university launched a research institute on family building in 2018 and it aims to conduct family discipline research and offer professional family guidance and services.
Li Mingshun, Secretary of the Party committee of the CWU, introduced the university's development of family disciplines. He said that family building in the new era should reflect Chinese characteristics and the requirements of the times, and it must serve the modernization of the social governance system and governance capacity and promote and build a family-friendly society through incorporating the family perspective into policy and system formulation.
Sun Xiaomei, Executive Director of the Family Building Research Institute, analyzed the policies on family building and briefed the audience on the institute's progress, including the development of courses and research on teaching, holding seminars attended by family education experts and social workers, publishing monographs and textbooks and planning for women's development.
 |
|
Sun Xiaomei, Executive Director of the Family Building Research Institute, analyzes policies on family building and outlines the institute's progress. [China Women's University] |
Officials of grassroots women's federations shared their views on family building based on firsthand work experience.
In addition, speakers also shared their latest research achievements on family's green lifestyles, families' charity practices, health care, living environments, traditional clothing culture and traditional families' handicrafts, and families' entertainment programs and sports.
 |
|
Li Gaoxia, President of the Women's Federation of Xicheng District (in Beijing), introduces the federation's role in innovating the ways of family building, integrating resources to build a service platform for family members and offering guidance on family education. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Jiang Wei, President of the Women's Federation of Haizhu District (in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province), gives a presentation on its achievements in building a new mechanism for family building with the joint efforts of the federation, society and families. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Cao Xiaobo, an official of the Women's Federation of Haidian District (in Beijing), says that it is important for women to play their unique role in family building. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Kang Liying, a professor with Capital Normal University, says that the family plays an irreplaceable role in raising, protecting and educating children. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Yang Yongmei, chief editor from Family Education Weekly under the China Education Daily, points out that the period of the past five years is considered a golden era for developing family education. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Hong Ming, a researcher at the China Youth and Children Research Center, said that the purpose of family education is to cultivate children so that they can control their own lives. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Yang Xiaolin, a lawyer, suggests that the contribution of both parties in marital relationship should be defined reasonably. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Liu Xiaonan, a professor with the China University of Political Science and Law, analyzes the need for protecting the rights of pluralistic families, such as single-parent families and common-law partners. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Liu Yongting, a lecturer from the CWU, introduces the compiling of a textbook on family and law, which will offer systematic guidance to family building in China from a legal perspective. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Zhang Xianmin from the ACWF's Human Resource Training Center, introduces the situation and development of the domestic service sector in China. [China Women's University] |
 |
|
Li Jiaqing, Director of the Guangzhou Women and Children Social Service Center, describes the experience and practice of the Nanyue Domestic Service Program in Guangdong Province. [China Women's University] |
(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)
Please understand that womenofchina.cn,a non-profit, information-communication website, cannot reach every writer before using articles and images. For copyright issues, please contact us by emailing: website@womenofchina.cn. The articles published and opinions expressed on this website represent the opinions of writers and are not necessarily shared by womenofchina.cn.
京公网安备 11010102004314号