Two projects, operated by China Women's Development Foundation (CWDF), have been selected among the best poverty-reduction practices in the world. The projects were announced on December 10, 2025, during the 2025 International Seminar on Global Poverty Reduction Partnerships, in Beijing.
Organizers received 840 nominations for the best poverty-reduction cases from 40 countries or regions, and they selected 108 cases as the best poverty-reduction practices.
Health Express for Mothers, one of the projects selected, was initiated in 2003 to provide health services to women, children and their families in regions that are short of public-health resources. The project has donated more than 3,400 health-service vehicles to hospitals in 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China. Approximately 500 million yuan (US $71.43 million) was allocated to implement the project, and 84 million people have benefited from the initiative.
The project has helped train women, as grassroots health workers, so they can safeguard the health of families. It has also formed a sustainable health-service chain, which integrates prevention, screening and intervention, and the chain has helped reduce poverty caused by illnesses.
The Mother's Entrepreneurship Recycling Fund project, initiated in 1996, is intended to help women coping with difficulties find employment or start a business. The project has granted small loans to rural cooperatives or projects operated by micro- or small-businesses.
It has helped rural women laborers, women poverty-alleviation leaders and in-need women in less-developed regions develop production and increase incomes. In 2015, the project was upgraded to Raise Her Business Plan.
To the end of 2024, some 426 million yuan (US $60.86 million) was raised and dispersed by the project to 617,500 women in 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
Photos from CWDF
(Women of China English Monthly February 2026)
Editor: Wang Shasha
