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This Day, That Year
Item from Sept 8, 1995, in China Daily: Governments worldwide should give more support to women’s developments, China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress urged during the ongoing fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Thanks to decadeslong efforts in promoting gender equality, increasing numbers of Chinese women have ventured and excelled in fields that used to be dominated by men.
In 2012, Liu Yang became the country’s first female astronaut and took part in the 13-day Shenzhou IX mission. In 2013, the country’s first two female oceanauts were selected, and they carried out their inaugural dive in the submersible Jiaolong, in the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015.
With a marked improvement in the status of women, China has also striven to accelerate the global women’s movement and promote gender equality in the world.
In 2015, during a high-level summit at the UN headquarters in New York, President Xi Jinping put forward a four-point proposal on promoting gender equality and women’s all-round development worldwide, such as developing vocational and lifelong education opportunities for women.
To support women’s development worldwide and the work of UN Women, China donated $10 million to the UN for the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and the realization of the related goals in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015.