A reshuffle of provincial-level leadership nationwide, which has seen more women leaders elected, has been concluded with Guo Jinlong elected as the Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Beijing Municipal Committee on July 3, 2012.
The group of newly-elected local leaders is characterized by several features, according to relevant data. Their average age is generally younger than that of their predecessors with more officials aged between 45 and 50 being elected into local government leadership. The same goes for their education levels, with 300 of the officials holding a master's degree or higher, accounting for 74.7 percent of those elected.
The most eye-catching feature of the newly-elected leadership group, however, is that 37 women have been jointly elected to legislatures, governments, political advisory bodies and inspection departments at the provincial level in this nationwide election. All provinces have at least one female leader at their newly-formed provincial level governments, which is in line with a directive policy made by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee to cultivate women in leadership roles.
Read the complete story at All China Women's Federation, publishd 4 July 2012.
A reshuffle of provincial-level leadership nationwide, which has seen more women leaders elected, has been concluded with Guo Jinlong elected as the Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Beijing Municipal Committee on July 3, 2012.
The group of newly-elected local leaders is characterized by several features, according to relevant data. Their average age is generally younger than that of their predecessors with more officials aged between 45 and 50 being elected into local government leadership. The same goes for their education levels, with 300 of the officials holding a master's degree or higher, accounting for 74.7 percent of those elected.
The most eye-catching feature of the newly-elected leadership group, however, is that 37 women have been jointly elected to legislatures, governments, political advisory bodies and inspection departments at the provincial level in this nationwide election. All provinces have at least one female leader at their newly-formed provincial level governments, which is in line with a directive policy made by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee to cultivate women in leadership roles.
Read the complete story at All China Women's Federation, publishd 4 July 2012.