UNITED NATIONS -- Improved laws and policies have enhanced women's status and welfare in China, especially in the rural areas, a Chinese envoy told a United Nations (UN) meeting on women Thursday.Our mechanism for gender-related assessment of laws, regulations and policies has further improved, and the system of conducting interviews to ensure equal employment for women has been incorporated in local legislation, Wu Haitao, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, said at the general debate of the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women.Of the representatives elected at the beginning of this year to the 13th National People's Congress, China's national legislature, women constitute 24.9 percent. Female members make up 20.39 percent of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top political advisory panel, an increase of 2.55 percent over the last session.The number of rural women living in poverty has decreased drastically and more rural women now enjoy social security benefits such as basic pension scheme and new rural cooperative medical scheme, Wu said.Eighty million rural women have access to free screening for cervix cancer and breast cancer. A total of 345 billion RMB (about $54.45 billion) in guaranteed loan is available for rural female entrepreneurs.Each year, women's federations at all levels provide training to rural women, establishing 30,000 agricultural demonstration bases. Over 2.6 million rural women are helped to increase their income, he added.Wu said rural women are an important force in agricultural production and rural development. They are also a major player in resource management, ecological construction, and cultural and social development in rural areas. silicone wristbands canadarubber wristbands for eventsrubber bracelets custom cheapcustom name bar braceletmiscarriage awareness silicone bracelets
Soldiers from a branch of the border defense forces in Yantai, Shandong province, see off a demobilized soldier. [TANG KE/FOR CHINA DAILY] BEIJING - A new set of criteria for assessing veterans for job placement came into effect earlier this month, putting more weight on military personnel's performance and contribution in war preparation and combat. The regulation, jointly released by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission, further underlines the principle of matching jobs to veterans based on their performance in service. Veterans will be assigned jobs in accordance with a score, which is based on several categories such as one's performance in combat, training level and war preparedness, length of service, living conditions of their service location, and military rank. Those who earned honorary titles and medals when in service will be prioritized when receiving job assignments, while those who practice fraud with their personal files will see their scores deducted. The new rules expanded the applicable scope of bonus points for talents, covering all military personnel including both officers and soldiers. The new regulation will cover servicemen who retire starting this fall.
