Women in China still occupy a small portion of senior corporate roles. To change this, advisers callled for local companies to hire more women as executives.

A combined childcare leave, shared by mothers and fathers and extended to half a year, could encourage the parents to take care of their children.

The new Yangtze River Delta Ecology and Greenery Integration Demonstration Zone should lay emphasis on water ecology treatment and have a coordinated intangible cultural heritage protection system, according to speeches local political advisers made at a plenary meeting of the ongoing CPPCC Shanghai Committee’s annual session yesterday.