Our generation feels we have the social responsibility and the willingness to endure hardships and take care of others. I am a mother, and I know what a mother means for the life of a child. Zhang Shuqin is director of the Beijing Sun Village Special Children Aid Center. Since 1994 she has set up […]
Only by understanding why people do certain things, and with their genuine needs as the point of departure, can we change behavior and thinking, and effectively contain the spread of Aids. Li Xiaoliang is Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Junming Medical College, and a specialist at the Yunnan Health and Development Research Center. From […]
I believe what I have done has changed the way many women and children look at themselves and the world We can not only master our own fate, we can also change the environment in which we live Long Sihai works in the Bureau of Justice in Yunnan province. Her work on advocacy of legal […]
“All people have ideals. Daring or not daring to realize their ideals is the vital difference between idealists and idle dreamers. In this sense, I am an idealist daring to realize my own ideal.” Shi Lihong, an environmental activist, is responsible for the Global Environment Institute and is executive director of Wild China. She is […]
Exercise my duty when on duty. Serve the people with the power assigned by the people.” Since taking up her position as vice mayor of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, Li Xuebo has developed a strong gender consciousness. She strives to find ways of helping poor women who live on poor land to increase their income. […]
Seeing my farmer friends bidding poverty goodbye, and my scientific projects bringing them profits nothing could be more exhilarating than this. Li Guilian of Huayin City, Shanxi Province, graduated from the Department of Gardening, Agricultural University, Guizhou Province in 1964, specializing in fruit and vegetables. She is vice dean at Guizhou Provincial Agricultural Science […]
Let tea flowers serve for the health of all mankind while China opens to the world.” Xu Jiying is director of the Zhonglinluyuan (Beijing) Tea Flowers Research Center. She has devoted more than 20 years to the study of the uses of tea flowers, thus changing this once ignored part of tea trees into an […]
Life is a chain of difficulties. When one obstacle is overcome, another arises. However, I will never retreat. My youth will not return, so whatever the difficulties, I will struggle to the end. Apart from being an educator, Chang Shana is also engaged in the research and protection of Dunhuang cave art. As a professional […]
(My goal is) “…to share happiness and woe with the common people and take their business as my own business.” Zhu Xiaoxia has introduced scientific marital and family planning ideas into her work for women and children, and has tried to convince families that happiness does not only lie in having male children. She has […]
Peace shall come only when everyones rights are protected. Wu Jiuhua is chairperson of the Womens Federation in Wangdu County, Hebei Province. She founded the Help the Poor Children Fund to help alleviate poverty among young girls. She has also established more than 30 training bases to train women to change their lives of poverty. […]
