Vice Chairperson of the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF) and member of the Secretariat, Vice Chairperson of China Children and Teenagers Foundation Zhao Donghua delivers a speech. [Womenof China/Fan Wenjun]

An official from China Children and Teenagers Foundation (CCTF) summarized CCTF's work in 2013 and issued its work plans for the year of 2014 at a conference for the media agencies at China Women’s Activity Center in Beijing on January 9th 2014.

CCTF Secretary General Chen Xiaoxia pointed out in her speech that the CCTF will focus on fund-raising work so as to help more needy children in 2014. Two important events —the 25th anniversary of the ‘Spring Bud Plan’ and ‘Beautiful China Love Trip’ will be launched in 2014. The CCTF will also dedicate to raising public awareness in charity and welfare, spending more time and money in investigating children’s need and make its institution more specialized and professional for the benefit of children and teenagers.

The CCTF will also highlight four actions in their future work in 2014, which show concerns to girls’ education, children’s healthy growth and medical assistance, the elimination of infant anemia, and help for the migrant children in urban areas and left-behind children in rural areas.

'Spring Bud Plan - Protection Action’ aims to solving actual schooling and living difficulties facing the needy girls and left-behind children in the poverty-stricken regions.

'Safe and Healthy Growth Project - Children's Medical Assistance' is to provide children with necessary medical support.

'Action to Eliminate Anemia amongst Infants and Children’ aims to eliminating anemia among infants, particularly in less-developed areas with limited medical supplies.

'Migrant and Left-behind Children Care Service System and Family Education' is to build care system among schools, communities to provide support to children who migrate to other places with their parents and those whose parents move to other places to work.

Vice Chairperson of the All-China Women’s Federation (ACWF), member of the Secretariat, Vice Chairperson of the CCTF, Zhao Donghua delivered a speech at the conference. Zhao hoped that media would create a good social atmosphere for the children's charity development and raise public awareness. Zhao stressed that media should report more on grass-root people to understand their needs and to publicize charity events. In addition, media should provide suggestions and ideas to charity organizations and play a greater role in public supervision.

Zhao also affirmed that public media have made great contributions to China Children and Teenagers Foundation’s charity projects. Such conference is a good platform for children’s foundation and media to collaborate.

Staff from the ACWF Administrative Office and its Publicity Department, People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Central Television Station and 18 media organizations attended the conference. Some of the media representatives provided suggestions and exchanged their opinions on charity events.