• Coordinate and promote relevant government departments to well maintain women and children's rights and interests;
• Coordinate and promote relevant government departments to draw up and implement the programs for the development of women and children;
• Coordinate and promote relevant government departments to provide necessary support in manpower, finance and material for carrying out women and children's work and for the development of women and children's cause;
• Guide, supervise, speed up and inspect work of the NWCCW at the levels of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government.

Leading Body

Chairperson:
　 Wu Yi (Vice-premier of the State Council)

Vice Chairpersons:
　 Xu Shaoshi
　 (Vice Secretary-general of the State Council)
　 Huang Qingyi
　 (Vice-president and First Member of the Secretariat of the All-China
　　Women's Federation)
　 Zhang Mao
　 (Vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission)

Committee Members

　The member units of the NWCCW committee were approved by the State Council. Up to now, there are 33 ministries, commissions and NGOs in the committee. It has its office located in the building of the All China Women's Federation.

　Its 33 committee members include:

• the Ministry of Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee,
• the National Development and Reform Commission,
• the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
• the Ministry of Education,
• the Ministry of Science and Technology,
• the State Ethnic Affairs Commission,
• the Ministry of Public Security,
• the Ministry of Civil Affairs,
• the Ministry of Justice,
• the Ministry of Finance,
• the Ministry of Personnel,
• the Ministry of Labor and Social Security,
• the Ministry of Construction,
• the Ministry of Water Resources,
• the Ministry of Agriculture,
• the Ministry of Commerce,
• the Ministry of Culture,
• the Ministry of Health,
• the National Population and Family Planning Commission of China,
• the State Administration for Industry & Commerce,
• the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine,
• the State Environmental Protection Administration,
• the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television,
• the State General Administration of Sports,
• the National Bureau of Statistics,
• the State Press and Publication General Administration,
• the State Forestry Administration,
• the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council,
• the China Disabled Persons' Federation,
• the All-China Federation of Trade Unions,
• the Central Committee of Communist Youth League,
• the All-China Women's Federation,
• the China Association of Science and Technology.

Brief Account to the Work

Since its founding, the NWCCW has implemented the basic State policy of the equality between men and women, adhered to the principle of first call for children and devoted to women and children's survival, protection and development.

Assist the State Council to draw up and promulgate National Program for Women's Development (1995-2000), the National Program of Action for Child Development in China in the 1990s, the National Program for Women's Development (2001-2010) and the National Program for Children's Development (2001-2010).

• Coordinate and promote relevant government departments to strengthen legislation and work out measures, reinforce government function, implement the programs for women and children and push forward the cause of women and children as a whole.
• Push relevant government departments to seriously implement the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international conventions on protecting women and children's rights and interests.
• Establish and strengthen the monitoring and assessment of the implementation of women and children's programs, work out the system for and carry out state level monitoring and assessment.
• Organize training and strengthen the government's capability in leading and implementing the programs.
• Focus on the key and difficult problems in children's education, women and children's health care, improving the conditions of drinking water and lavatory in middle and western poverty-stricken regions and areas inhabited by minority ethnic groups, so as to improve the survival and development situation for women and children in middle and western regions.
• Give full play to the function of coordinating and discussing official business, coordinate relevant departments to solve prominent problems in the development of women and children and protect women and children's legal rights and interests.