The 2025 BRICS Women's Leadership Forum was jointly sponsored by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the China Chamber of International Commerce (CCOIC) in Beijing on April 28.
During the forum, several "dream workshops," which are funded by the Genius Moms project of China Women's Development Foundation, exhibited their high-quality artworks of intangible cultural heritage at the interaction and experience area to showcase millennia-old craftsmanship and practitioners' enthusiasm and dedication to traditional Chinese culture.
Four representatives of the workshops in China's Fujian, Yunnan, Shandong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region interpreted the charm of intangible cultural heritage and set the example of "She Economy" at the meeting.
So far, the Genius Moms project has supported the building of 50 "dream workshops" in 22 provincial-level regions and helped over 80,000 women acquire technical and vocational skills, earn more money and raise their status in family and society. It has also organized chief practitioners of intangible cultural heritage to visit shopping malls, schools, residential communities and other places and sponsored philanthropic fashion shows, mobile dream workshops, public welfare markets and handicraft classes to help promote intangible cultural heritage and promote the all-round development of relevant artisans.
All exhibited artworks have embodied millennia-old Chinese culture, underscored women's pivotal roles in intangible cultural heritage protection, and injected women's special aesthetic insight and business wisdom into traditional culture through design and the development of intellectual property. Many foreign visitors gave a try-on of such intangible cultural heritage artworks as Zanhuawei (floral headdress) and Mamianqun (horse-face skirt), turning the interaction and experience area into a popular destination for participants to pose for a photo.
During the banquet, organizers sent to foreign delegates gifts created based on the intangible cultural heritage Lu (Shandong) brocade in accordance with diplomatic etiquette. Jointly developed by Jinan Lu Brocade Dream Workshop and President of Shandong Fashion Association Zhou Jin, the special artworks have helped international attendees better admire traditional Chinese culture, and expounded women's roles in the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage.
On the global stage, women have used their unique creativity, resilient spirit and outstanding leadership to press ahead with the revitalization of traditional culture. The Genius Moms project is one of vivid cases.
Photos from CWDF
(Source: CWDF/Women of China)
Editor: Lei Yang
