The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) held its 2nd Regional Meeting on Child Friendly Cities in East Asia and the Pacific in Jinan, Shandong Province recently. During a panel discussion themed "Child-friendly Social Services," a spokesperson from Changsha shared the city’s experience in child care and protection and its innovative approach for child-friendly travel.

The conference is the largest and highest-level regional conference with the most diverse topics for discussion since the previous summit in Surabaya, Indonesia, held six years ago in 2018. This conference is also the first large-scale international child-friendly city exchange event held in China.
 
During the panel discussion, Huang Qi, vice chairwoman of the Changsha Women's Federation, held a roundtable dialogue with representatives from Siem Reap, Cambodia, Valenzuela, the Philippines, and Dormagen, Germany, sharing Changsha’s practices and experiences in improving child care policies, strengthening grassroots-level child welfare service system and team construction, innovatively promoting child-friendly social service projects, and initiating the construction of child-friendly townships and towns.

Source: en.changsha.gov.cn