A 7-member delegation led by Dr. Justine Coulson, UNFPA Representative to China, paid a visit to China Population and Development Research Center (CPDRC) on the morning of January 26, 2022, and had a cordial talk with Director-General HE Dan and Deputy Director-General LIU Hongyan of CPDRC and Deputy Secretary ZHUANG Ya'er of China Population Association. The meeti...
On December 6, 2021, Ms. HE Dan, Director-General of China Population and Development Research Center (CPDRC), attended the staff training workshop of UNFPA Representative Office in China at its invitation, and delivered a speech titled "Perfecting the Maternity Security System and Building a Maternity Support System", through which she elucidated the current situa...
Due to outbreak of COVID-19, the 9th China-Japan-Korea Seminar on Population Policy kicked off virtually on December 9, 2021. Hosted by the Japanese National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS), this Seminar was attended by representatives from the governments of China, Japan, and South Korea, as well as demographic experts and scholars, who...
The Workshop on Low-Fertility Policies in China, Japan and Korea kicked off virtually on March 2, 2022 to discuss the status quo of and policy responses to low fertility in China, Japan and South Korea. Hosted by Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS), from China’s side, this Workshop was attended by HE Dan, Director-General o...
In answer to the UN System-wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (SWAP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Headquarters kicked off the initiative of "Gender Equality Changemakers" in a bid to share good practices of gender equality promotion across the globe. As one of the activities under this initiative, UNFPA Headquarters anno...
As a prelude to the 65th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the European Commission and the Government of Norway jointly launched the "High-Level Inter-ministerial Dialogue on Son Preference and Gender Biased Sex Selection" at 21:00 Beijing time on March 12, 2021, in an effort to forge further consens...
On September 26, 2020, CPDRC Director-General HE Dan attended the Fifth Anniversary Symposium of the Center for International Knowledge on Development and delivered a speech amid the roundtable discussion on the "2021 Report on China's Progress in Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".
On July 8, 2020, in partnership with the Department of Population Monitoring and Family Development of the National Health Commission of China, UNFPA China launched virtually the 2020 State of World Population (SWOP) report. UNFPA releases its flagship report SWOP globally every year, to raise awareness of population issues and call for full realization of sexual a...
On the morning of October 17, 2019, a delegation comprised of 20 participants of the Ministerial Workshop on Population and Sustainable Development for Developing Countries 2019 visited China Population and Development Research Center (CPDRC). They are ministerial and senior government officials responsible for social development and health affairs from six develop...
The Wrap-up Meeting for the Project of Addressing Gender-biased Sex Selection and Skewed Sex Ratio at Birth under the UNFPA 8th Country Programme was held at Hubei Hotel, Beijing on November 23, 2018. It drew more than 50 attendees, including workers and project experts from UNFPA, the National Health Commission of China, China Population and Development Research C...
To protect the legitimate rights of the people of child-bearing age during the process of receiving family planning/reproductive health services, the National Health Commission of China and Australian Human Rights Commission cooperate on reproductive health rights protection projects under the framework for the dialogue between China and Australia on human rights.
The Expert Meeting of “Addressing Gender-biased Sex Selection and Skewed Sex Ratio at Birth in China” Project was held in the afternoon of January 4, 2018 in Beijing. This meeting brought together over 10 experts from the Department of Family Development of the National Health and Family Planning Commission(NHFPC) of PRC, China Population and Development Research...
On December 15, 2017, Professor Doo-Sub Kim, Professor of Sociology, Hanyang University of Korea and President of Asian Population Society, visited CPDRC. The meeting was chaired by Liu Hongyan, Deputy Director of CPDRC, and attended by Zhuang Ya’er, the Deputy Secretary General of China Population Association, and CPDRC’s relevant researchers.
In the morning of December 18, 2017, Hayashi Reiko, head of International Relations Department, and Kan Keita, head of Section 1 of Demographic Structure Research Department, at Japan National Institute of Population and Social Security Research as well as their team visited CPDRC and conducted academic exchange with relevant researchers of the Center. The exchange...
To facilitate the establishment of China's high-end think tank for population and development studies, the China Population and Development Studies (CPDS) sponsored by the China Population and Development Research Center(CPDRC) was approved by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China in July 2017 f...
