1On September 2nd, 983, at the Fifth National Congress of Women in China, Comrade Kang Keqing made a work report entitled "Strive for Self-improvement and Create a New Situation in the Women's Movement". When talking about the glorious task of women in China in the next five years, the report said: "We should respect ourselves, love ourselves and strengthen ourselves, and bravely defend the sacred rights entrusted to us by the law." This is the first time that the All-China Women's Federation has put forward the "Four Ones". The content of "four selves" is: self-esteem, that is, respecting yourself, believing in your own strength and not feeling inferior. Self-love means loving yourself, cherishing life and loving your career. Self-esteem means respecting yourself and your personality. Self-improvement is the core of "Four Ones". Self-improvement is the only way to self-reliance. Self-improvement means to be positive, work hard, learn skills well and make a difference. The "Four Ones" call on women in China to bravely defend the sacred rights endowed by law, not to be bound by feudal remnants, and not to do anything that harms their personality and national dignity. Five years later, at the Sixth National Congress of Women in China on 1 September, 1988/kloc-0, two striking slogans were hung in the solemn Great Hall of the People: "Join in reform, forge ahead in unity, overcome difficulties with the people of the whole country, be self-respecting, confident, self-reliant and self-reliant, and be a new woman in the new era." The meeting also unanimously adopted the work report of "Self-esteem, Self-confidence, Self-reliance and Self-improvement, Contributing to Victory in the Critical Stage of Reform" made by Secretary Zhang Guoying. The report writes: Under the background of reform and competition, contemporary women must strive to improve their ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality, and establish a new female consciousness of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement. This time, not only the contents of the "Four Ones" put forward by the Fifth National Congress have been revised, but also the contents of "self-esteem", "self-confidence", "self-improvement" and "self-reliance" have been systematically expounded and written into the Constitution of the All-China Women's Federation, which is an important work of the Women's Federation at this stage. In his report, Comrade Zhang Guoying explained the content of the "Four Selfs" as follows: "Under the background of reform and competition, contemporary women must strive to improve their ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality, and establish a new female consciousness of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement. Self-esteem means respecting one's personality, maintaining one's dignity and opposing belittling oneself; Self-confidence means believing in one's own strength, strengthening one's beliefs and opposing self-belittling; Self-reliance means establishing independent consciousness, embodying one's social value and opposing attachment and obedience; Self-improvement means tenacious struggle, striving for progress and opposing inferiority and weakness. " The "Four Ones" spirit in the new period is the inheritance and development of the glorious tradition of the women's movement in China. This slogan of women with distinctive China characteristics advocates China women to make rapid progress in the wave of reform, establish self-developed independent group consciousness and cultivate sound psychological quality, which has become a decisive force in economic construction and social development.
The slogan of "Four Ones" put forward by the Sixth National Congress of China Women has been fully affirmed and enthusiastically supported by the Party and the state. 1989 65438+2 2 1 Notice on Strengthening and Improving the Party's Leadership over Trade Unions, the Communist Youth League and Women's Federation pointed out: "Women's Federation should educate women on' self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement', encourage them to keep forging ahead in the cause of construction and reform, and give full play to their intelligence. 1990 On March 7th, General Secretary Jiang Zemin said in his speech at the conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of International Women's Day on March 8th, "I hope you will strive to improve your quality, learn scientific and cultural knowledge, carry forward the spirit of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement, further enhance your sense of historical mission and responsibility, and become new socialist women with ideals, morality, culture and discipline. "1On April 3, 1992, the Fifth Session of the Seventh National People's Congress passed the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests in People's Republic of China (PRC). The law stipulates in the "General Provisions": "The state encourages women to be self-respecting, self-confident, self-reliant and self-reliant, and uses the law to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests. "
Since then, "four self" education has become an important part of women's work, the most familiar slogan for women in the new period of reform and opening up, and the driving force for women in China.