Academic Interpretation of Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on the Protection of Women’s Rights and Interests

WANG Liwan*

Abstract: General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important discourses on the protection of women’s rights and interests represent an organic integration of the Marxist view on women, the revolutionary and governance experience of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in leading efforts to safeguard women’s rights and interests, and the fine traditional Chinese culture. They form a systematic ideological framework and actionable guide characterized by contemporary relevance, originality, and coherence. General Secretary Xi Jinping has elaborated incisively on key dimensions of women’s rights protection, including political participation rights, personal and dignity rights, cultural and education rights, labor and property rights, and marriage and family rights. These expositions have facilitated the systematic incorporation of women’s rights and interests protection into laws and regulations, its elevation to the level of state will, and its internalization as norms of social conduct. Faced with the convergence of both emerging and longstanding challenges in protecting women’s rights and interests, we should, guided by these important expositions, embed women’s rights and interests protection into the thematic priorities of contemporary Chinese women’s movements, align our efforts with the new features and requirements of safeguarding women’s rights and interests in the new era, continuously strengthen Party leadership over such endeavors, and unswervingly follow the path of developing women’s cause with Chinese characteristics.

Keywords: Xi Jinping’s important discourses on the protection of women’s rights and interests · Marxist view on women · gender equality · women’s all-round development · path of developing women’s cause with Chinese characteristics