China Women's University () is a women's university located in Chaoyang District of

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It also has a campus in

Changping District Changping District (), formerly Changping County (), is a district situated in the suburbs of north and northwest Beijing. Changping has a population of 2,269,487 as of November 2020, making it the most populous suburban district of Beijing. Hist ...

of Beijing. It was founded in 1949 as a school for the cadres of

All-China Women's Federation The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) is a women's rights people's organization established in China on 24 March 1949. It was originally called the All-China Democratic Women's Foundation, and was renamed the All-China Women's Federation in 195 ...

. The current name was adopted in 1995 and in 1996 it became a

university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

. Currently it has about 160 teachers and 3,300 undergraduate students. It used to have a branch campus in

Shandong Province Shandong is a coastal province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center ...

, which became Shandong Women's University in 2010.

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(in Chinese and English). Universities and colleges in Beijing Women's universities and colleges in China Universities and colleges established in 1949 1949 establishments in China All-China Women's Federation Schools in Chaoyang District, Beijing 1949 in Beijing {{China-university-stub