Beijing Women's Federation

In 2021, the Beijing Women's Federation (BWF) has tailored targeted measures for reform and innovation and expanding the network of its subordinate bodies in an effort to further consolidate grassroots-level women's federations. In cooperation with the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, it has made headway in the development of women's federations in colleges and universities.

 

 

A ceremony is held for the establishment of the Women's Federation of the Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology.

 

The Women's Federation of the Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (BIPT), also the first university-based women's federation in Beijing, was established on December 15. During the federation's first session, members of its first leadership group were elected, including the president, vice president and standing committee members. Zhang Hua, a selectee of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship — the European Union's reference programme for doctoral education and postdoctoral training — and a professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of BIPT, was elected president of the BIPT Women's Federation.

 

The move heeded the call for strengthening the construction of women's federations in colleges and universities and deepening the organizational reform of women's federations, as well as exploring the practice of guiding, serving and connecting educated women.

 

Zhang Yajun, Secretary of the Leading Party Members' Group and President of BWF, gave congratulations on the establishment of BIPT Women's Federation. She stressed that the first university women's federation has started a new chapter for women's federation work in universities in the capital. Noting the importance of women's federations as a bridge between the Party and women, Zhang said that they have been tasked with uniting and guiding women to follow the Party's leadership, safeguarding women's rights and interests, and promoting women's development. She added that the BIPT Women's Federation will be quite a help to Party in uniting female faculty and university students.

 

Zhang said the newly-established BIPT Women's Federation must stick to the Party's leadership and mobilize women to work hard in the new era and make achievements on the new journey. The federation is supposed to serve women well and stimulate new dynamics of women's federation and its work should be led by Party building, she noted. Highlighting the women-centered service principle, Zhang also urged the BIPT Women's Federation to develop its learning and innovation capacities.

 

Liu Ying, Party Secretary of BIPT, underlined the importance of university-based women's federations. She said the federation should clearly define its duties and responsibilities and have a clear recognition of its role, and called for more concrete and committed efforts to promote the development of the BIPT Women's Federation.

 

The BIPT Women's Federation will strengthen its guidance in ideological education and support women's development, aiming to build BIPT into "the cradle of engineers in the capital" and promoting the high-quality development of high-level application-oriented universities. It will also launch diverse and distinctive activities to put services for women in place in a bid to enhance the sense of gain, happiness and security of female faculty and college students.

 

Luo Xueke, Deputy Party Secretary and President of BIPT, and Tan Hong, Member of the Leading Party Members' Group and Vice-President of the BWF, attended the ceremony.