Editorial
The world for women
Editorial  ·  2025-10-20  ·   Source: NO.43 OCTOBER 23, 2025

The Global Leaders' Meeting on Women took place in Beijing on October 13-14, themed One Shared Future: New and Accelerated Process for Women's All-Round Development. Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech, putting forward several proposals to advance the development of women worldwide.

The high-level meeting gathered heads of state and government, parliamentary leaders, ministerial officials, as well as heads of international organizations, alongside other distinguished representatives from the global community. Thirty years after it hosted the Fourth World Conference on Women, the 1995 event that established the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action as the global agenda for gender equality, the international community returned to the Chinese capital.

The mid-October gathering once again proved a milestone. The convergence of international representatives fostered essential dialogue on pressing challenges, paving the way for strengthened cooperation that will accelerate progress toward gender equality and improve women's standing in societies worldwide.

China's role as host of the Global Leaders' Meeting on Women underscores its demonstrable advances in gender equality. The trajectory of Chinese women over the past 30 years is one of profound transformation, with their influence rising in politics, the economy, technology and well beyond. This ascent is powered by a generation of outstanding women.

Take the example of Tu Youyou, awarded the Nobel Prize in 2015, who achieved a monumental breakthrough in 20th-century tropical medicine with her discovery of artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin. Her work provided the world with a powerful cure for malaria, saving millions of lives. Meanwhile, Liu Yang cemented her place in history as China's first female astronaut. She has not only completed two spaceflights but also ignited the imagination of a new generation when she delivered lessons from China's space station to young students on Earth from the "Tiangong classroom."

According to United Nations reports, over 600 million women and girls today live in conflict zones, 2 billion lack social security and nearly one in 10 endures extreme poverty. These figures signal that hard-won gains are in danger of reversal. Achieving global gender equality is far from a "mission accomplished"; it demands urgent collaboration, accelerated action and sustained commitment from all sectors.

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