The 2023 Changsha "World Children's Day" Event was held at Changsha Museum on November 18, with the theme of "A Child-friendly World Brightens Children's Future." It was sponsored by the Working Committee on Women and Children of the Changsha Municipal People's Government and undertaken by the Changsha Women's Federation, Changsha Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio and Television, Changsha Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Changsha Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, and Changsha Municipal Public Security Bureau. UNICEF Representative to China Amakobe Sande extended festive greetings to children across Changsha via a video link. Yang Changjiang, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Changsha Municipal People's Congress, attended.

At the event, three representatives introduced the implementation of excellent cases of child-friendly city construction, and two student representatives shared their ideas in creating excellent "environment-friendly and child-friendly" works.

Certificates of Changsha's top 10 outstanding cases for building child-friendly cities in 2023 were granted to relevant units. Excellent works and excellent organization units shortlisted for the "environment-friendly and child-friendly" works collection activity in Changsha in 2023 were also awarded certificates.

Reading Start backpacks were distributed to representatives of the families who have applied for them. Reading Start is a non-profit program for preschoolers and their families co-launched by the Shenzhen iRead Foundation and the Shenzhen government. 

In addition, from November 18 to 20, Changsha will also light up some iconic buildings in the city with blue lights and slogans symbolizing child friendliness. This is the seventh consecutive year that Changsha has responded to the "Lighting up for Children" initiative launched by UNICEF. The Parent-Child Public Library of Changsha Women's and Children's Activity Center will also recruit 90 groups of families to carry out a series of themed activities such as scroll painting, on-site quizzes, and children's movie play.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn