Number of High-Rank Female Government Officials Increases in China

The public has been noticing the increase in the ratio of high-level female officials in China’s central government departments.

The attention given to the obvious rise in the statistic was heightened up by Cui Yuying's recent promotion to become the new State Council Information Office's Vice Director.

With this promotion, Cui became the sole vice minister of minority groups in her office's head department, the Communist Party of China's (CPC) Central Committee Publicity Department.

According to a Beijing Youth Daily research, there are at least 15 minister-ranking female officials among the 25 ministries directly governed by the State Council.

The number of female ministry-level officials is highest in the Ministry of Education and in the National Health and Family Planning Commission. Each has three female high-level authorities.

Furthermore, two of the 15 high-ranking female officials serve as the topmost director of their respective offices. They are Li Bin of the National Health and Family Planning Commission and Wui Ai'ying of the Ministry of Justice.

Aside from these facts, a female is also expected to head another significant government body that is outside the State Council, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee. Sun Chunlan, the former female secretary of the CPC Committee of Tianjin, a Chinese municipality, will soon take her post as the body's new minister.

In 2014, Xu Luping was assigned as the newest Vice Minister of CPC's Central Committee International Department, an evidence that earlier gathered the growing attention over Chinese women holding more high-rank government posts.

Alongside the creation of "New China" back in 1949, there came the proclamation that China's female populace will be given equal rights as men in all aspects--economic, cultural, social and political--hence, the large probabilities of such increase in the number of high-rank female government officials.