The Global Women's Summit will be held in Beijing from October 13th to 14th. President Xi Jinping will attend the opening ceremony of the summit and deliver a keynote speech. The summit aims to review the spirit of the Beijing World Conference on Women, encourage all parties to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, inject new impetus into promoting global gender equality and the comprehensive development of women, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. International people interviewed by this reporter said that President Xi Jinping's attendance at the Global Women's Summit and his important speech will help build consensus on international cooperation and establish a new milestone in the development of the world's women's cause.

"Charting the direction for the development of global women's careers"

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women, the Beijing World Conference on Women. Under the personal initiative of President Xi Jinping, China held this Global Women's Summit, which attracted great attention from the international community. For a long time, President Xi Jinping has put forward a series of important initiatives and propositions on promoting gender equality and the all-round development of women, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country in promoting the advancement of women's causes around the world.

"President Xi Jinping has put forward a series of initiatives to promote gender equality and the all-round development of women at the United Nations and other important occasions. These proposals conform to the development trend of the times, meet the development needs of all parties, and point the way for the development of global women's causes." Evelyn Hernandez, former director of the Supervision Department of the Human Rights Commission in Mexico City, Mexico, said that China proposes to convene a global women's summit to create an important multilateral platform to promote women's development, which will create a good international environment for countries around the world to build consensus on gender equality and strengthen exchanges and mutual learning in the field of women.

"President Xi Jinping, standing at the height of human civilization and social progress, has put forward new ideas and measures to solve the common challenges faced by women in all countries, and promote further development of global gender equality and women's causes." Larisa Malyutina, associate professor at Russia's Siberian Federal University, said that in recent years, China has effectively implemented the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action and implemented the national action plan for the comprehensive development of women. China has made obvious achievements in women's causes. "I believe that China will use the Global Women's Summit as an opportunity to provide more valuable reference for the development of women's causes around the world."

Teresa Amarelle, general secretary of the Cuban Women's Federation, who will attend the Global Women's Summit, said that the Beijing World Conference on Women in 1995 was unprecedented in scale and an important milestone in promoting the cause of global gender equality. In the context of the increasingly complex international situation and the approaching goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, China's hosting of the Global Women's Summit has more prominent practical significance.

"The Global Women's Summit is held at the right time, providing an important opportunity to jointly discuss the development of global women's causes." Gertrude Mongela, Secretary-General of the Fourth World Conference on Women and a famous Tanzanian women's activist, said that the "Beijing Declaration" and "Platform for Action" adopted by the World Conference on Women in Beijing are of transformative significance and point the way to protecting women's rights and promoting gender equality. We look forward to President Xi Jinping expounding China’s propositions on promoting gender equality and ensuring women’s development, and contributing Chinese wisdom to jointly building and sharing a better world for all women and everyone.

"Together promote the comprehensive, inclusive and sustainable development of women"

Over the past 30 years, China has actively implemented the spirit of the Beijing World Conference on Women, acted as an important participant, promoter, and leader in the global cause of women, and joined hands with all parties to seek practical cooperation in the field of women and promote the continuous development of the cause of global women.

"China actively promotes global women's development cooperation, especially in the fields of education, poverty reduction, health, digitalization and other fields to carry out a series of bilateral and multilateral cooperation projects to improve women's well-being, strengthen women's economic empowerment, and promote women's self-worth and sustainable development. This provides an important reference for countries in the global South to promote the progress of women's causes." Diran Saleh, head of the Foreign Relations Committee of the National Assembly of Iraq, said that he believed that President Xi Jinping's attendance at the Global Women's Summit and his new initiatives would bring new opportunities for deepening practical cooperation in the field of women.

China attaches great importance to international cooperation in women's capacity building, has trained more than 200,000 female talents for more than 180 countries and regions, implemented women's empowerment projects totaling more than 40 million US dollars in more than 20 countries, and carried out more than 100 special training sessions for women and children in the Global South to help women reduce poverty and develop through South-South cooperation. Hanan Osman is one of the first female employees to join the Egyptian branch of China State Construction Engineering Corporation. She said that China actively promotes high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, helps women in many co-building countries improve their professional skills, creates jobs and provides development opportunities for them.

"China adheres to an open and inclusive attitude and is deeply involved in global cooperation in the field of women, jointly promoting the comprehensive, inclusive and sustainable development of women." Rahman, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture of the interim government of Bangladesh, said that women have played an irreplaceable role in China's poverty alleviation process. It is expected that Bangladesh and China will further deepen their cooperation in building women's capacity in diverse industries such as agricultural product processing, leisure agriculture, rural tourism, and e-commerce.

Shakeel Ramai, advisor to the Global Development Initiative Group of the Sustainable Development Goals Secretariat of the Pakistani Parliament, said that China will deepen international women’s development cooperation and organically integrate it into the high-quality Belt and Road Initiative and South-South cooperation frameworks, and equitably benefit the results of sustainable development in the field of women to the majority of southern countries. The digital training courses jointly organized by Pakistan and China on e-commerce, live streaming, artificial intelligence, etc. help Pakistani women improve their digital literacy and skills, and also help bridge the gender digital divide and share the dividends of digital development.

“The prospect of leading global governance in the field of women is exciting”

Women's cause is a common cause for all mankind. China takes this Global Women's Summit as an opportunity to accelerate the implementation of the Beijing Declaration, Platform for Action and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, practice multilateralism, and join hands with all parties to contribute to the advancement of global governance in the field of women.

Camila Ortega, coordinator of the Creative Economy Committee of the Nicaraguan Presidential Palace, said: "President Xi Jinping emphasized that without women's liberation and progress, there will be no human liberation and progress. This profoundly explains the importance of women's cause in today's world. We look forward to all countries practicing and deepening the spirit of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Action, jointly empowering women to play a greater role in the fields of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship, and promoting the joint construction of a fair and just global governance framework in the field of women."

Farhana Paluk, Chairman of the Cape Peninsula Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, has participated in many exchange activities between China and South Africa on the topic of gender equality and women’s empowerment. She said that China has actively taken the lead in promoting the multilateral and regional women's development agenda, carried out digital education projects for girls in Africa, opened capacity-building training courses for African-Chinese women officials, and held Africa-China women's forums... Since 2012, China has held nearly 30 women's conferences under cooperation frameworks such as the G20 and BRICS. She said it is worth mentioning that "China has long supported women's role in the fields of peace and security, climate change, public health and humanitarian relief, and has effectively promoted the implementation of the principle of gender equality."

"The Beijing World Conference on Women 30 years ago and the "Beijing Declaration" and "Platform for Action" adopted are still the guide for action for the development of global women's causes and continue to play an important guiding role." Ana Fallou, who once served as the regional director of the Andean region of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, told this reporter that she believes that the upcoming Global Women's Summit will once again bring together the power of women around the world and "gather joint efforts to deal with challenges for the development of women's causes."

Francisco Pichon, the United Nations Coordinator in Cuba, said that China has cooperated with UNESCO to establish the Girls and Women’s Education Award, and the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund has launched a senior female talent training project to promote the improvement of women’s representation in the United Nations system. "The United Nations highly recognizes China's active cooperation with other countries to jointly promote the development of global women's causes."

"The upcoming Global Women's Summit fully demonstrates China's responsibility as a major country in promoting the development of women's causes around the world." Malyutina said that the summit will bring together consensus and positive forces for cooperation and inject more confidence and positive energy into further promoting global gender equality and the comprehensive development of women. "The prospect of leading global governance in the field of women is exciting."

(Correspondents from Beijing, Mexico City, Cairo, Moscow, Dubai, Bangkok, Johannesburg, Islamabad, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires: Chen Xirui, Zhang Mengxu, Xie Jianing, Shen Xiaoxiao, Xiao Xinxin, Guan Kejiang, Sun Guangyong, Zou Song, Dai Kairan, Cheng Shijie, Song Yiran, Xu Fang)

"People's Daily" (Page 02, October 12, 2025)

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