China devoted to boosting women's collaborations with Africa

• Source: Xinhua
• [14:58 October 14 2009]
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"We have improved our efforts in providing training to women cadres in Africa, by holding two workshops on the women's political participation and development in 2008 and 2009, which were attended by 40 senior female officials from 21 African countries," Chen said.

She said that ACWF introduced China's experience in poverty relief and rural development to wives of African diplomats in China, who also donated to ACWF's programs to help rural women.

Chen said China will make new efforts in five aspects to further promote women's collaborations with African countries.

She said that China's universities will enroll more African women students, and raise the proportion of those who are sponsored by the Chinese government to more than 30 percent, as against 26.54 percent currently.

"We will encourage more dialogues between Chinese and African women leaders, to share their experience in gender equality and development," said Chen.

She added that the communication between the two sides should be carried out in multi-levels, which involves women lawmakers, education workers, scientists and businesswomen, as well as others, Chen said.

In order to support women and children's development in Africa, China will provide more aid for African women charities and organizations and establish more training centers to facilitate the communication and cooperation.

Chen also called on both sides to improve women's cooperation mechanism in the framework of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, and improve the governments and civil societies' gender awareness to benefit women's future development.