Helping more women find
employment and re-employment will top China's six tasks in the next
five years, said Gu Xiulian, vice-president of the All-China
Women's Federation (ACWF), at the Chinese Women's Ninth
National Congress that opened in Beijing earlier Friday.
More substantial efforts
will be made to keep increasing women's working opportunities and
posts, and better the distribution and variety of their job
opportunities, said Gu, also vice-chairwoman of the Standing
Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress.
A major method to that
end is to guide and support excess rural women laborers into
non-agricultural sectors or cities or towns, which would bring them
more employment and development opportunities.
The country will also
work very hard to sharply cut the number of women in dire need,
said Gu.
Meanwhile, she
acknowledged, ACWF will spare no effort to increase the number of
Chinese women entering politics, to improve their education levels
and to promote better health service for them.
The establishment of a
legal system to protect the rights of women and children and social
security for women are of vital importance, Gu said.
(Xinhua News
Agency?August 23, 2003)