Key moments of Chinese first lady Peng Liyuan as WHO goodwill ambassador and UNESCO special envoy
By Global Times, Published: 2021-10-25 20:20:58
UNESCO named Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, as a special envoy to promote education for girls and women on March 27, 2014, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France. Photo: Xinhua
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Take a look at the key moments of Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, as the World Health Organization (WHO) goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and the UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education. Photos: Xinhua
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan (third from right), the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, attends the opening ceremony of the 2014 National Conference on HIV/AIDS in Beijing on October 20, 2014. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, attends a publicizing activity for the prevention and cure of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS at Hainan University in Haikou, South China's Hainan Province on March 29, 2015. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Irina Bokova, former director-general of UNESCO, meet with Asian and African attendees of an international girls' and women's education seminar in Beijing on September 4, 2015. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, as the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and at the invitation of former UN chief Ban Ki-moon, attends the opening ceremony of a high-level meeting of the "Every Woman Every Child" global movement in New York, the US, on September 26, 2015. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, and Irina Bokova, former director-general of UNESCO, present awards at a ceremony in Beijing on June 6, 2016 to winners of the first UNESCO Prize for Girl's and Women's Education. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, attends the opening ceremony for "Love in the Sunshine" – the 2016 China-Africa Children Summer Camp, at the Palace Museum in Beijing on July 29, 2016. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, speaks during a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 18, 2017. At the invitation of former WHO director-general Margaret Chan and former UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe, Peng on January 18 attended the ceremony hosted by the WHO to renew its appointment of her as goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and to present her awards for her outstanding work. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and wives of heads of delegations attending the ninth BRICS summit and the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries participate in the award ceremony of the second edition of UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education at Xiamen University in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, on September 5, 2017. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, visits the FAWE Girls' School in north Kigali, Rwanda, on July 23, 2018. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, visits Uthando Day Care Pre-school in the east suburb of Pretoria, South Africa, on July 24, 2018. Peng was accompanied by Tshepo Motsepe, wife of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, during the visit. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping and a UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, addresses a graduation ceremony for pre-school teachers in Pretoria, South Africa, on July 24, 2018. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, attends a China-Africa meeting on HIV/AIDS prevention and control in Beijing on September 4, 2018. Peng, together with spouses of African heads of state and government, launched an initiative at the meeting for joint efforts by China and Africa to combat HIV/AIDS. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the WHO goodwill ambassador for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS and the UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, and former Panamanian First Lady Lorena Castillo Garcia, special ambassador for UNAIDS in Latin America, pose for photos holding colorful paper butterflies, which symbolize the Zero Discrimination campaign, to show their solid support for the global cause against AIDS in Panama City, Panama, on December 3, 2018. Photo: Xinhua 
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s wife Peng Liyuan, the UNESCO special envoy for the advancement of girls' and women's education, attends the special session on girls' and women's education in Paris, France, on March 26, 2019. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, meets with a group of international graduate students from China Women's University (CWU) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 30, 2019. The students are from CWU's International Master's Program of Social Work in "Women's Leadership and Social Development," established to implement initiatives announced by President Xi at the 2015 Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment. Photo: Xinhua 
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, also a special envoy of the UNESCO for the advancement of girls' and women's education, attends the Award Ceremony of 2021 UNESCO Prize for Girls' and Women's Education via video link in Beijing on October 15, 2021. Photo: Xinhua