Nation puts women's issues in focus

In addition to announcing a donation of $10 million to UN Women, the global organization's office working for gender equality, Xi said at the summit that China would host 30,000 women from developing countries for training programs and provide 100,000 skills training opportunities for local communities in other developing countries.

Last year, Xi announced a further donation of $10 million to UN Women for the following five years while addressing a high-level meeting on the 25th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women.

"We need to place the protection of women's and girls' rights and interests high on the agenda of both public health and economic reopening," Xi said. "In particular, we need to create more job opportunities for women and crack down on violations of women's rights and interests."

Li Ying, dean of the School of International Education at China Women's University, said, "China has a strong political will to promote gender equality and women's empowerment globally", adding that the nation has "translated its commitments into a road map for concrete action".

With its donations, efforts to share experience, and build capacity program to empower women from developing nations, China has taken the championing of women's rights globally as a priority in its diplomatic agenda, Li said.

Smriti Aryal, head of UN Women's China office, said in a speech last month that with the nation's stronger global footprint as an international development partner, China's commitment to prioritizing women's empowerment in its development cooperation and global engagement has been more than encouraging.

"We hope China's recent commitments to prioritize women's empowerment as one of the main areas of international cooperation will serve to garner stronger global solidarity and multilateral support to close the gap in gender financing internationally.

"UN Women stands ready to partner with China to promote the women's rights agenda through South-South Cooperation and normative processes globally, while also offering the collective experience, tools and resources on gender equality from around the world to benefit China," she said.