Expert interpretation丨Promote the high-quality development of the work of the Women's Federation by comprehensively deepening reform

The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China emphasized the role of mass organizations as a bridge in connecting and serving the masses. In the new era, focusing on maintaining and enhancing the political, advanced and mass nature, and continuing to deepen the organizational reform of the Women's Federation, is the key path to promote the high-quality development of the work of the Women's Federation, which can further enhance the cohesion, combat effectiveness and influence of the Women's Federation, and better play its important role in the development of women. Taking this as the starting point, this paper discusses how to promote the high-quality development of the work of the Women's Federation through comprehensively deepening the reform from three aspects: enhancing the political nature to ensure the correct direction, enhancing the advanced nature to lead the value pursuit, and enhancing the mass nature to consolidate the foundation for development.

The Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"), which was deliberated and adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stressed: "Give play to the role of trade unions, Communist Youth Leagues, women's federations and other mass organizations as bridges and links to connect and serve the masses. "The importance of the work of the Women's Federation lies not only in its extensive participation in the political, economic and social spheres and its unique role, but also in its significant contribution to the realization of gender equality, the protection of the rights and interests of women and children, and the promotion of the comprehensive development of the country and society.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee has comprehensively strengthened its leadership over women's work, promoted the reform of the Women's Federation, continuously improved the legal system for the protection of women's rights and interests, continued to optimize the environment for women's development, and promoted the historic achievements of women's causes. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "It is necessary to continue to deepen the organizational reform of the Women's Federation around maintaining and enhancing the political, advanced and mass nature, focus on making up for shortcomings, strengths and weaknesses, laying a foundation, increasing vitality, and comprehensively strengthening the construction of the Women's Federation." "In the new era, focusing on maintaining and enhancing the political, advanced and mass nature, and continuing to deepen the organizational reform of the Women's Federation, is the key path to promote the high-quality development of the work of the Women's Federation, which can further enhance the cohesion, combat effectiveness and influence of the Women's Federation, and better play its important role in the development of women.

Enhance the political nature of the work of the Women's Federation by comprehensively deepening reform and ensure the correct direction

The "Decision" stresses: "The leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for further deepening reform in an all-round way and promoting Chinese-style modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Politics is the soul of mass organizations and comes first. "Comprehensively deepening reform to enhance the political nature of the work of the Women's Federation is not only an inherent requirement for the development of the Women's Federation itself, but also an inevitable choice to adapt to the overall development of the cause of the Party and the country in the new era. This will help ensure the correct direction of the development of the Women's Federation, so that the Women's Federation can always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, unswervingly walk on the road of socialist women's development with Chinese characteristics, effectively implement the Party's line, principles and policies, translate the Party's decision-making and deployment into the conscious actions of the women's masses, and contribute to the development of the cause of the Party and the country.

In practice, it is necessary to strengthen the party's leadership and enhance the political nature of the work of the women's federation by comprehensively deepening reform.

First, it is necessary to intensify theoretical study and build a solid political foundation. Women's federation organizations need to regularly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially important expositions on women, children and the work of women's federations, through special studies, training and seminars, etc., to ensure political sobriety and firmness, and at the same time deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", strengthen the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", and maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee. Strengthen women's ideological and political leadership, for example, the "Red Boat Daughter" propaganda brand in Zhejiang Province, the "Splendid Sister Propaganda" propaganda brand in Taiyuan City, and the "Xiaohui Sister" in Huizhou City have led the majority of women to unswervingly listen to the party's words and unswervingly follow the party in practice.

The second is to improve system building. Establish and improve the work system of the Women's Federation that is compatible with the comprehensive deepening of reform, and ensure that all reform measures have rules to follow and evidence to follow. For example, the Nan'an Women's Federation has strengthened the construction of the "three commons", through the implementation of the three systems of "joint discussion of major events", "position sharing" and "team co-construction", and through regular joint meetings to discuss work plans and activity plans, the system of rotating chairmen and rotating duty groups has been piloted; The construction and sharing of public positions such as "women's homes", "children's homes" and "parents' schools" have ensured the orderly operation of the Women's Federation.

The third is to strengthen the construction of work style, establish a good image, adhere to the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, promote party members and cadres to strictly abide by discipline, maintain honesty and integrity, and resolutely oppose formalism, bureaucracy and other unhealthy trends.

Enhance the advanced nature of the work of the Women's Federation by comprehensively deepening the reform and lead the pursuit of values

The "Decision" emphasizes: "Adhere to integrity and innovation, unswervingly adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristics, keep up with the pace of the times, conform to the development of practice, highlight the problem orientation, and promote theoretical innovation, practical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation and other innovations at a new starting point." "Comprehensively deepening reform is an important way to enhance the advanced nature of the work of the Women's Federation, which will help the Women's Federation break through the bottleneck that restricts development, optimize the organizational structure, improve work efficiency, give full play to the role of the Women's Federation in the overall work of the Party and the country, and contribute to the promotion of economic and social development.

In practice, we should persist in upholding integrity and innovating, and enhance the advanced nature of the work of the Women's Federation by comprehensively deepening reform.

First, it is necessary to use digital transformation and technological innovation to improve the efficiency and coverage of the work of the Women's Federation. Women's federations should conform to the trend of digital transformation, and use big data analysis to understand people's feelings, collect public opinions, and gather people's wisdom through means such as "people + AI+" empowerment training, big data analysis, and online carrier development, so as to improve service efficiency and coverage, and accurately respond to women's concerns. At the same time, digital technology is used to cooperate with courts to promote the construction of "shared courts" for family matters, open up the data docking platform between the public security, the courts and the women's federation, integrate forces to resolve disputes, and promote the development of women's causes. For example, the Fuzhou Women's Federation has tried to offer AI-related training courses, covering women at different levels and fields, including female college students, women entrepreneurs, and business managers, to help improve women's ability in employment and entrepreneurship.

Second, it is necessary to innovate work methods. The work of the Women's Federation should be projected, the goals, tasks, time and responsibilities should be clarified, and the planning and execution of the work should be improved. Create brand projects with the characteristics of the Women's Federation, such as "Women's Contributions" and "Women's Home", etc., to enhance the social awareness and reputation of the work of the Women's Federation. At the same time, we will strengthen cooperation with other government departments, social organizations and enterprises to jointly promote the development of women's causes. Establish a cross-regional and cross-field linkage mechanism for the work of women's federations to achieve resource sharing and complementary advantages.

Third, it is necessary to carry out international exchanges and cooperation. Actively participate in the exchanges and cooperation of international women's organizations, learn from advanced international experience and practices, and enhance the internationalization level of the work of the mainland women's federation.

We should deepen reform in an all-round way to enhance the mass nature of the work of the Women's Federation and lay a solid foundation for development

The "Decision" emphasized: "Adhere to the people-centered, respect the people's dominant position and initiative, the people have a voice, reform has a response, so that reform is for the people, reform relies on the people, and the fruits of reform are shared by the people." "Comprehensively deepening reform to enhance the mass nature of the work of the women's federation can overcome the tendency of emphasizing the "elite" over the "grassroots", pay more attention to, care for, and care for the ordinary women, promote the tilt of resources and services to the grassroots, and ensure that their voices and needs are fully reflected and responded, so that the women's federation can be closer to the masses, serve the masses, and truly become the intimate and mother's family of the broad masses of women.

In practice, we should adhere to the people-centered approach and enhance the mass nature of the work of the Women's Federation by comprehensively deepening reform.

The first is to promote organizational coverage. Intensify efforts to establish women's federation organizations in new areas such as new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, so as to achieve full coverage. Through independent establishment, unified industry construction, regional joint construction, etc., effectively promote the expansion and extension of the organization and work of the Women's Federation to emerging fields.

Second, it is necessary to conduct in-depth investigation and study, vigorously promote the practice of investigation and study, and follow the mass line. Through an in-depth understanding of the actual needs and difficulties of the female masses, we should find the right entry point and focus of work.

Third, it is necessary to establish and improve a long-term and effective mechanism for connecting with the masses of women, unblock channels of communication with the masses of women, and collect their opinions and suggestions in a timely manner to provide a basis for improving work. Women's federations at all levels can establish different types of WeChat groups, such as "women's federation work groups", "women's representative groups", "family hostess exchange groups", etc., to ensure the timeliness and extensiveness of information transmission.

At the same time, online platforms are used to hold online lectures, live courses, online Q&A and other activities, such as psychological counseling, tutoring classes, legal knowledge lectures, etc., to meet the diverse learning needs of women. To carry out activities that combine online and offline, it is possible to publish a preview of the event online to attract the attention of the women, and then hold specific activities offline to enhance the sense of participation and effectiveness. Through the combination of online and offline, we can build a comprehensive and multi-level service system, strengthen the connection with the women's masses, improve the service efficiency, and ensure that the women's federation organizations can understand the needs and difficulties of the women's masses in a timely manner and respond effectively.

Fourth, it is necessary to establish and improve the supervision and evaluation mechanism. Establish and improve the internal supervision and evaluation mechanism of women's federations, regularly inspect and evaluate the work of women's federations, and ensure that all policies and measures are effectively implemented. At the same time, it has actively introduced external supervision mechanisms such as social supervision and media supervision to comprehensively and objectively evaluate and give feedback on the work of women's federations, and to promote women's federation organizations to continuously improve their working methods and improve service quality.

Source/China Women's Daily

Zhao Cuili, a professor at the School of Marxism, University of International Business and Economics, and Chen Li, a doctoral student at the Department of Scientific Socialism at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Administration).

Editor/Zhao Rui

Review/Xiaoyue

Executive Producer/Qiao Hong