CGTN：How China is empowering women and advancing 'her power'

EQS Newswire / 11/10/2025 / 18:00 CET/CEST BEIJING, CHINA - Media OutReach Newswire - 11 October 2025 - An article published by CGTN highlights China's upcoming Global Leaders' Meeting on Women in Beijing, marking 30 years since the 1995 Beijing Declaration. It reviews China's progress in women's empowerment under Xi Jinping's leadership and its global contributions to gender equality, while noting persistent worldwide challenges to achieving women's full advancement.

Thirty years ago, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, set the world on a new course, establishing strategic objectives and actions to advance women and achieve gender equality.

On October 13 and 14, again in Beijing, the Global Leaders' Meeting on Women will bring together stakeholders to renew the spirit of the 1995 Conference, accelerate the implementation of the declaration and platform for action, promote gender equality, support women's all-round development, and foster a community with a shared future for humanity.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will attend the meeting's opening ceremony and deliver a keynote speech, has long championed women's development globally. At the 2015 UN Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, he outlined four guiding principles: synchronizing women's development with social and economic progress, safeguarding rights, fostering inclusive societies and creating favorable international conditions.

Through Xi's vision, China has provided practical pathways for advancing women's empowerment, creating a model of inclusive development and "her power" in action.

China's advance of 'her power'

Over the past three decades, China has consistently upheld the spirit of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, achieving remarkable progress in women's rights and opportunities. Since 2013, targeted poverty alleviation has lifted millions of women out of poverty in the country, with 690 million now enjoying a moderately prosperous standard of living.