China had 15.03 million women cadres at the end of 2005,
accounting for 38.9 percent of the total number of cadres in China,
according to official statistics.
The figure represents a 2.7 percentage-point rise from 2001,
according to statistics released at a national meeting held in
Beijing Wednesday and Thursday to select women cadres and
increasing the number of women members in the Communist Party of
China (CPC).
The number of women members in the CPC reached 13.57 million at
the end of 2005, accounting for 19.2 percent of total membership.
That's a 1.8 percentage point rise over 2001, according to the
statistics.
He Guoqiang, head of the Organization
Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at the meeting that
more outstanding women cadres should be encouraged to take up
leadership positions at various levels. The number of women CPC
members should also be increased.
He said the work of training and selecting women cadres and
increasing the number of women CPC members is important to building
a socialist harmonious society and it is an effective approach to
developing socialist democracy.
"The dual contributions of women cadres to the society and
family should be judged properly," he said. "There should be
preferential policies (toward women). Women should enjoy priority
in receiving promotion under the same conditions."
(Xinhua News Agency August 25, 2006)