Mission

• To represent and safeguard women's rights and interests and to promote equality between women and men.
• To unite and mobilize women to engage in China's reform and opening up program, in the country's socialist modernization and in promoting economic development and social well-being; 
•  To educate and offer guidance to women to strengthen their spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement, to improve their technical and professional skills and to enhance their overall competence;   
•  To represent women in the participation in the democratic decision-making, management and supervision of State and public affairs, and in the formulation of laws, decrees, regulations and policies concerning women and children,  to promote and implementation of national programs for women and children's development, and to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests;    
•  To render services to women and children by strengthening coordination with all sectors of the society and urge them to work in the best interests of women and children;    
•  To consolidate unity among women of all nationalities in China, to develop friendly relations with women and women's organizations in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region, Taiwan Province and with overseas Chinese women and to promote the great cause of China's reunification; to actively develop friendly exchanges with women and women's organizations of other countries so as to enhance better understanding, friendship and cooperation, and to safeguard world peace.

Introduction

Founded on April 3, 1949, the All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) is a mass group united by women from various ethnic backgrounds and circles for the further emancipation of women. It is the largest NGO for improving the status of women in China, and its basic function is to represent women, protect women's rights and interest, and promote gender equality.

Organizational System

ACWF practices an organizational system of local women's federations and group members.

Local Women's Federations are set up according to the state administrative divisions.

Women worker's committees of grass-root trade unions in factories, mines and enterprises, and those at upper levels are all group members of Women's Federations. National or local women's organizations that have registered with the departments of civil affairs and are willing to apply for affiliation with the federations may become members of ACWF once approved by ACWF or local Women's Federations.

ACWF has about 60,000 grass-root organizations above township and neighborhood committee levels across China, and more than 980,000 women's representatives' committees and women's committees at grass-root level. There are 18 national group members and about 5,800 local group members at various levels throughout the country.