July 18, Wuhan--- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and China Family Planning Association (CFPA) officially launched a powerful and innovative youth programme of Dance4life in China to empower young people to promote positive lifestyle, participation and life skills and to address issues concerning them, including sexual reproductive health issues, including AIDS and sexual violence.

Susmita has never gone to school. She tends the few animals her family owns and attends to household chores. Like more than one in three girls in her community, she may be married before turning 18. She dreams about going to school – even just for one day.

• More than half of the world’s 60 million 10-year-old girls live in the 48 countries with the worst gender inequality.

• $21 billion a year dividend for developing countries can be unlocked if all 10-year-old girls complete secondary education.

LONDON/UNITED NATIONS, New York, 30 October 2013 — Motherhood in childhood is a huge global problem, especially in developing countries, where every year 7.3 million girls under 18 give birth, according to The State of World Population 2013, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.  

BEIJING, 4 May，2010—Peking University, the National Working Committee on Children and Women under the State Council (NWCCW), and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA China) today released preliminary findings of China’s first national survey on youth access and utilization of sexual and reproductive health services. The survey sample represented the country’s 164 million unmarried youth aged between 15 and 24 in 2009. 

March 16, Beijing---Following the successful initiation of the UNFPA MOOC Scholarship on the World Population Day 2014, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) China Office launched the second round together with its partner Guokr.com.

There are over 600 million girls in the world today, more than 500 million of them in developing countries. They are shaping humanity’s present and future. The opportunities and choices girls have during adolescence will enable them to begin adulthood as empowered, active citizens.

With the right skills and opportunities, they can invest in themselves, in their families and their communities.  However, pregnancy jeopardizes the rights, health, education and potential of far too many adolescent girls, robbing them of a better future.

Beijing, 8 December 2013--- Initiated by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) China Office and Sohu.com, the Awards Ceremony of Acting for Youth Short Movie Competition was held in China National Film Museum in Beijing. Mr. Arie Hoekman, the Representative of UNFPA in China; Ms. Jiang Fangzhou, a well-known young writer and opinion leader who is Acting for Youth Advocate; and Ms. Hong Ping, Deputy Secretary General of China Family Planning Association, representatives of the panel of judges, participating university students and special invitees were present at this event.