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Breaking-News >> WorldNews Multinational governments should respond to Chinese initiatives, discuss the development of women's cause, and the global women's summit will be held in Beijing today.
The Global Women Summit will be held in Beijing from October 13 to 14. The theme of the summit is “Destiny Together: Accelerating a New Process for Women’s Comprehensive Development”, and President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech. On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Beijing World Women’s Conference, all sides actively responded to President Xi’s important initiative again in Beijing, negotiating the development of the global women’s cause. According to media reports such as “Gana News”, “Mozambique Club”, the President of Ghana Mahama, the Prime Minister of Mozambique Levid Burton and the President of the Dominican Republic have arrived in Beijing on the 11th. The summit was co-hosted by China and UN Women’s Agency. The Ghana News on 11th that China’s decision to co-host the summit with UN Women’s Agency reflects China’s efforts to position itself as a global leader on women’s issues. The meeting provided the participating leaders with an opportunity to share best practices, establish partnerships and commit to taking concrete action to promote gender equality in their respective countries and regions. In recent years, President Xi Jinping has proposed important initiatives in the field of women's development on a series of important international occasions. In 2015, President Xi attended and chaired the Global Women's Summit at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, putting forward four propositions for promoting gender equality and women's comprehensive development; in 2020, President Xi delivered an important speech through video at the high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women. He also proposed to convene the Global Women's Summit again in 2025. China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jianquan said on Monday that dozens of heads of state and government, parliamentary leaders, deputy prime ministers and ministerial officials, heads of international organizations and friendly people from all continents will gather together. he said the summit aims to re-heat the spirit of the Beijing Women's Society, promote the acceleration of the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Programme of Action, inject new momentum to promote global gender equality and comprehensive development of women, and promote the building of a community of human destiny. Hong Kong's Bus Newspaper said that as the first female president of Dominica, Burton emphasized that the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted by the 1995 World Conference on Women are powerful catalysts for global progress in gender equality and women's empowerment. In an interview with the media, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Amarasuria said that many ideas and goals established by the World Conference on Women in Beijing 30 years ago still shine with the value of the times. After a lapse of 30 years, Beijing once again held a summit with the theme of women's cause, which is of great significance to the development of global women's cause. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations and the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, the Beijing World Conference on Women. For a long time, China has played an important role in promoting the development of women's causes around the world. In 1980, China became one of the first countries to sign the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. In 1995, the Beijing World Conference on Women adopted the "Beijing Declaration" and "Platform for Action", which focused on the theme of "seeking equality, development and peace through action" and identified 12 key areas of concern for women's development as well as strategic goals and policy frameworks for each area., becoming a milestone in the development of women's cause in the world. Li Mingshun, a professor at China Women's University, said in an interview with a reporter from the Global Times on the 12th that the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing in 1995 was an important milestone in the history of the global women's movement. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the conference gathered global consensus on gender equality and profoundly influenced the global gender equality process in the next 30 years. Today, 30 years later, the Global Women's Summit is held again to accelerate the global process of coordinated promotion of gender equality initiated by the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, make the concept that "women's rights are human rights" more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and allow governments of all countries to More actively fulfill their international commitments to gender mainstreaming and make building a world where women are free from discrimination an irreversible international action. In September 2025, the State Council Press Office issued a white paper entitled "The Practice and Achievement of China to Promote the Comprehensive Development of Women in the New Era".The White Paper pointed out that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, socialism with Chinese Characteristics has entered a new era.The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core is to protect the legitimate rights and interests of women, promote equality between men and women and the comprehensive development of women, as an important content of Chinese-style modernization, make a series of pioneering, global and long-term major decision-making deployments for the development of women's cause. In recent years, President Xi Jinping has put forward important initiatives in the field of women’s development at a number of important international occasions, which China has advocated not only to promote and expand the spirit of the Women’s Society in Beijing, but also to become the international consensus to lead the development of global women’s cause, providing useful leads for other countries to explore and promote gender equality and comprehensive development of women. News raw data sources → https://world.huanqiu.com/article/4OhWmjPpwJZ 17WorldNews[2025.10.13-12:15] 访问:49
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