Promoting Women's Employment, Reemployment

　　　促进妇女就业再就业

　　The municipal government of Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, has implemented, in recent years, four measures to promote local women's employment and reemployment.

　　First, Jinzhou's government has convened, each year, two municipal-level conferences on employment work. Women's employment and reemployment has been emphasized at the conferences by the establishment of work targets. Achievements in reaching the targets, by governments at all levels within the city, have been made public each month.

　　Second, a market of labor services was established in the city in 2004. A counter, especially for laid-off women, was opened in the market to offer employment guidance, policy advice and professional training. Meanwhile, relevant government departments worked together to ensure　women's employment and reemployment were priorities.

　　Third, Jinzhou's government helped needy women workers and unemployed women participate in the social insurance program, to counter their special difficulties, and pushed social insurance work throughout the city. As a result, many needy women were ensured a basic livelihood by　different kinds of social insurance, such as the old-age insurance, child-bearing insurance and industrial injury insurance.

　　Fourth, the government strengthened supervision over labor, to protect women workers' special rights and interests. Law enforcement was strictly monitored to ensure women workers' rights were protected. Violators were ordered to stop infringing on women's rights and interests.

　　From 2002 till 2005, 92,900 people were employed under their real names in Jinzhou, and 51.4 percent of those people were women.

Rural Parents Enter Classroom

农村父母进课堂

　　A distinctive classroom, the classroom for rural parents, was recently established in Shengyuan Community of Dongying, Shandong Province. Using the modern distance-education network, the classroom provided the parents, through relaxed and interesting TV programs, with up-to-date　concepts of family education and scientific methods to raise healthy, happy children. The initiative was well received by the parents.

County's Officials Step up　Protection of Minors

县政府加强未成年人保护

　　To ensure relevant statutes_prohibiting the use of child laborers_have been implemented, a special inspection was conducted in Quxian County, Sichuan Province, earlier this year.

　　Led by the county's labor and social security bureau, the inspection involved more than 400 workers from 31 work units_including 15 units in the catering trade, 11 units in the recreation trade and five units in the processing trade. No child laborer was found during the inspection. But 17 units were caught without residence registration of their employees. They were given a mandatory document ordering rectification and reform.

　　A TV station's news crew tagged along and reported on the inspection. Meanwhile, there was wide publicity on the laws and regulations aimed at protecting minors, to ensure that all employers are better aware of, and understand, the laws.

Losing the 'Little Emperors'

告别“小皇帝”

　　At the beginning of the year, a family investigation group from the Working Committee on Children and Women of Huadian, Jilin Province, witnessed the following scene at a single-child family: Both the father and grandfather were trying to persuade a schoolchild, who was 10 years old, to eat. However, the child refused, and knocked the bowl of rice, which his grandfather was serving to him, on the floor.

　　From that event, the committee realized that providing children from single-child families with intensive education was already of great urgency. A series of educational activities_including showing films, soliciting essays and reciting poems_was initiated by the committee to benefit schoolchildren throughout the city. The activities were aimed at helping children from single-child families to lose both their self-centeredness and their labels as "Little Emperors." In a short amount of time, many of the children had learned to think of others and to love the motherland.

Pregnant, Lying-in Women Enjoy Medical Services

孕产妇享受全程医疗跟踪

　　Provisional regulations on follow-up medical services for pregnant and lying-in women were recently issued by the municipal government of Nanning, capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

　　Under the provisional regulations, a woman in Nanning is entitled to such services provided by local medical institutions from the beginning of her pregnancy to the 42nd day after she gives birth. If the woman travels to another place during this period, her former medical institution must notify the relevant medical institution in the community to which the woman has relocated.

　　The regulations emphasize the management and responsibility of follow-up medical services and their providers. If such services are not fulfilled, the duty-bound institutions and/or persons will face punitive measures.

《中国妇女》英文月刊 2006.11

　Source:Office of NWCCW
　信息来源：国务院妇女儿童工作委员会办公室

　Executive Editor:ZHAO NING
　责任编辑：赵宁