This Day, That Year

Item from Sept 8, 1995, in China Daily: Governments worldwide should give more support to women's developments, China's top legislature, the National People's Congress urged during the ongoing fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Thanks to decadeslong efforts in promoting gender equality, increasing numbers of Chinese women have ventured and excelled in fields that used to be dominated by men.

In 2012, Liu Yang became the country's first female astronaut and took part in the 13-day Shenzhou IX mission. In 2013, the country's first two female oceanauts were selected, and they carried out their inaugural dive in the submersible Jiaolong, in the southwest Indian Ocean in 2015.