Making Women the Main Force in Public Diplomacy
Date:2015-3-5 17:23:42 Views:
01 Director Wang Guoqing is sharing the knowledge of public diplomacy
02 Site of the lecture
“Every citizen, no matter male or female, bears the responsibility of publicizing and protecting the reputation of his or her country. Women have great potential to make achievements in public diplomacy, due to their own unique advantages.” This was part of a passionate speech during a lecture held at Yifu Building, Beijing Foreign Studies University, in the afternoon of November 22, to which rounds of applause were given from time to time.
This lecture is one of the serial activities under the Dandelion Leadership Development Public Training Plan of Women Leadership Academy (WLA), supported by Beijing Women’s Federation and Beijing Women Committee of The Jiusan Society. The plan aims at providing women elites with a platform for systematic learning of leadership, expansion of vision to be internationally-oriented and sharing of diversified resources, to allow women who have high professional abilities and a good sense of social responsibility to grow together and thus to push social progress more efficiently. This high-end view salon for women was co-held by Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center, WLA and IBM, to build an internationally-oriented vision and to enlarge women’s social influence. Wang Guoqing, the current Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the CPPCC and former Director of the State Council Information Office, gave a speech on the theme of “Making Women the Main Force in Public Diplomacy” as a special guest. Trainees under the aforesaid training plan and representatives of social organizations of women and of women’s committee of each political party, totaling to more than 50 persons, participated in the activity.
Wang Guoqing introduced the common understanding of public diplomacy across the international society, and talked about women’s functions in public diplomacy in regard to the extensive, long-term, multi-angle and cross-cultural characteristics of public diplomacy. As one who had worked a long time in pushing the building of the government news release system and boosting news and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, Wang shared with the participants what he had learnt and accumulated from many practices of guiding public opinions on events of national significance. He hoped that the unique functions of public diplomacy can be actually realized by enhancing the sense of responsibility, improving ability and crossing the “huge gaps” of cultural traditions, language systems and ideology.
Participants had a hot discussion and exchanges of ideas after the lecture. Zhou Zhijun, the Vice Chairwoman of Beijing Women’s Federation, also shared her thoughts and feelings with others. She said that public diplomacy is closely related to everyone, but women tend to produce better communication effects because they aremore accessible and more eager to share than men. In recent years, trying and practicing a lot in the field of women’s civil diplomacy, Beijing Women’s Federation built a beneficial atmosphere for women’s development and communication, with forms innovated and contents further developed.
Public diplomacy is an essential component of the whole diplomatic system. Women enjoy a special superiority and play a special role in public diplomacy due to their unique qualities endowed by nature. Beijing Women’s Federation has been committed to the realization of a better display of women’s images and a better communication of women’s elegance and confidence through international exchanges and a better understanding of China and Chinese women’s charms by foreigners through appropriate discourse systems and modes. In the future, the Federation will make more efforts to have Chinese women’s voice better heard on the international stage, by strengthening and widening international exchanges in regard to women entrepreneurship, women development and family education, etc.
This lecture is one of the serial activities under the Dandelion Leadership Development Public Training Plan of Women Leadership Academy (WLA), supported by Beijing Women’s Federation and Beijing Women Committee of The Jiusan Society. The plan aims at providing women elites with a platform for systematic learning of leadership, expansion of vision to be internationally-oriented and sharing of diversified resources, to allow women who have high professional abilities and a good sense of social responsibility to grow together and thus to push social progress more efficiently. This high-end view salon for women was co-held by Beijing Women’s International Exchange Center, WLA and IBM, to build an internationally-oriented vision and to enlarge women’s social influence. Wang Guoqing, the current Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the CPPCC and former Director of the State Council Information Office, gave a speech on the theme of “Making Women the Main Force in Public Diplomacy” as a special guest. Trainees under the aforesaid training plan and representatives of social organizations of women and of women’s committee of each political party, totaling to more than 50 persons, participated in the activity.
Wang Guoqing introduced the common understanding of public diplomacy across the international society, and talked about women’s functions in public diplomacy in regard to the extensive, long-term, multi-angle and cross-cultural characteristics of public diplomacy. As one who had worked a long time in pushing the building of the government news release system and boosting news and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, Wang shared with the participants what he had learnt and accumulated from many practices of guiding public opinions on events of national significance. He hoped that the unique functions of public diplomacy can be actually realized by enhancing the sense of responsibility, improving ability and crossing the “huge gaps” of cultural traditions, language systems and ideology.
Participants had a hot discussion and exchanges of ideas after the lecture. Zhou Zhijun, the Vice Chairwoman of Beijing Women’s Federation, also shared her thoughts and feelings with others. She said that public diplomacy is closely related to everyone, but women tend to produce better communication effects because they aremore accessible and more eager to share than men. In recent years, trying and practicing a lot in the field of women’s civil diplomacy, Beijing Women’s Federation built a beneficial atmosphere for women’s development and communication, with forms innovated and contents further developed.
Public diplomacy is an essential component of the whole diplomatic system. Women enjoy a special superiority and play a special role in public diplomacy due to their unique qualities endowed by nature. Beijing Women’s Federation has been committed to the realization of a better display of women’s images and a better communication of women’s elegance and confidence through international exchanges and a better understanding of China and Chinese women’s charms by foreigners through appropriate discourse systems and modes. In the future, the Federation will make more efforts to have Chinese women’s voice better heard on the international stage, by strengthening and widening international exchanges in regard to women entrepreneurship, women development and family education, etc.
