Description:

Founded on April 3, 1949, the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) is a mass organization dedicated to the advancement of Chinese women of all ethnic groups in all walks of life.

Mission:

To represent and to protect women’s rights and interests, and to promote equality between men and women.

Purpose:

To represent and to safeguard women’s rights and interests, and to promote equality between men and women.

Organizational system:

ACWF practices an organizational system of local women's federations and group members.

Local Women's Federations are set up according to the state administrative divisions.

Women worker's committees of grass-root trade unions in factories, mines and enterprises, and those at upper levels are all group members of Women's Federations. National or local women's organizations that have registered with the departments of civil affairs and are willing to apply for affiliation with the federations may become members of ACWF once approved by ACWF or local Women's Federations.

ACWF has about 60,000 grass-root organizations above township and neighborhood committee levels across China, and more than 980,000 women's representatives' committees and women's committees at grass-root level. There are 18 national group members and about 5,800 local group members at various levels throughout the country.

The leading body:

The highest power organ of ACWF is the National Congress of Chinese Women which convened once every five years to deliberate and decide on the guidelines and tasks of national women's movement, work out major tasks and work plans for the next five years, amend the Constitution of the All-China Women's Federation and elects the Executive Committee of ACWF.

The plenary session of the Executive Committee elects the President, a number of Vice-Presidents and other members to form the Standing Committee. When the Executive Committee is not in session, the Standing Committee is the leading body. A Secretariat is set up under the Standing Committee. The Standing Committee designates a First Member and several other members of the Secretariat to handle the daily work of ACWF.