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PCG celebrates the 2025 National Women's Month

The Philippine Consulate General in Shanghai joins the Filipino nation in celebrating the 2025 National Women’s Month this March.

This year’s National Women’s Month Celebration (NWMC) with the sub-theme, “Babae sa Lahat ng Sektor, Aangat ang Bukas sa Bagong Pilipinas.”, reinforces the core objective of RA 9710, or the Magna Carta of Women—to empower women, promote gender equality, and ensure equitable access to resources and opportunities.

The 2025 National Women’s Month Celebration further emphasizes the need for inclusive progress, ensuring that no woman is left behind in the journey toward equal opportunities and empowerment. In addition, the 2025 NWMC aims to:

1. Increase awareness and advocacy for gender equality, resulting in greater recognition of women’s equal rights, power, and opportunities across all sectors;

2. Enhance the inclusion of marginalized and vulnerable sectors of women, including indigenous women, rural women, and women with disabilities, through targeted initiatives that ensure their participation and access to programs and resources promoting inclusive development;

3. Strengthen multi-sectoral collaboration with government agencies, LGUs, NGOs, CSOs, and other stakeholders, leading to improved policies, access to services, and sustainable opportunities for women; and

4. Improve policies and gender-responsive governance, ensuring the sustainability of gender equality efforts beyond 2025.

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Huawei opens gates of its New Lianqiu Lake R&D Center

SHANGHAI, 21 February 2025 – Huawei marked the operationalization of its new Lianqiu Lake R&D Center with an organized tour of their facilities for selected diplomats from Shanghai and Beijing. The sprawling 2,600-acre campus is presently Huawei’s largest and most heavily invested R&D center globally to date and is intended to be Huawei’s core hub for its global R&D networking.

The facility presently has 25,000 Huawei scientists, engineers, employees occupying its office spaces and research laboratories, with another 20,000 expected to transfer here once its operations kick into full gear.  The vast campus is composed of 8 “districts” interconnected by a tram system.

The consuls general and head of post of Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines; and Ambassadors of Cambodia and Morrocco joined the visit to the Lianqiu Lake R&D Center and were impressed by its expanse, organization and modern beauty. Huawei’s Lianqiu Lake R&D Center is a milestone achievement of the company and sets the stage for Huawei to further advance its development of cutting-edge technology such as 5G, cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

PCG reaches out to Filipino child liver transplant recipient at Renji Hospital, Shanghai

SHANGHAI, 14 February 2025 – Representatives from the Philippine Consulate General, led by Consul and Acting Head of Post Francis S. Herrera, paid a visit to a one-year-and-nine-month-old Filipino child who was the recipient of a life-saving liver transplant procedure at the Renji Hospital in Shanghai.

The child had been suffering from biliary atresia, a rare liver disease that blocks bile ducts and leads to liver damage. The Consulate General representatives were happy to find that child and his father-donor, Mr. Herdie Vasquez, were recovering well after the hours-long procedure which was performed on 11 February 2025.

The consulate general representatives were met by Dr. Wang Chun Ming (Michael), Director, and Ms. Zhou Ying (Joey), Deputy Director of the Smart Hospital Development Department of Renji Hospital, as well as the doctors and nurses who were involved in the liver transplant procedure. The lead doctor who performed the operation, Renji Hospital President Dr. Xia Qiang was unfortunately on an official trip to Mongolia and was not available for the meet-and-greet.  

Consul Herrera was pleasantly surprised to discover that doctors from the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center in Manila (CGHMC), led by Dr. Noruel Gerard Salvador and Dr. James Uy, also flew in to Shanghai to monitor the liver transplant procedure and look after the child-recipient and father-donor   The child was initially being treated at the CGHMC for his condition.

Consul Herrera expressed thanks and gratitude to the Renji Hospital and CGHMC doctors and nurses who remained vigilant in ensuring that the life-saving procedure went smoothly and the child and his father-donor were monitored closely during their recovery. As a simple gesture to wish them a quick recovery, Consul Herrera presented a bag of food items and a toy for the child to the child’s mother, Ms. Editha Delos Santos. END