The two-day 11th World Family Summit closed in Guangdong's Zhuhai city on Dec 3. Wang Pei'an, vice-minister of the NHFPC, attended the closing ceremony and delivered a speech.

Wang said that the summit accomplished a lot and was a complete success, thanks to efforts by all relevant parties.

Wang pointed out that the summit highlighted the important role of family, realized a consensus in developing the post-2015 development agenda on family, called on the international community to introduce family-related perspectives in the post-2015 development agenda, listened to family voices, faced the trend of diversifying family forms, comprehensively enhanced family support, and offered family-based policy and service.

The summit emphasized the government-family relationship and the government's role in promoting family development. It also called attention to influences of disaster conflict and war on the family. It stressed that the government should carry out more responsibilities in boosting family development, and play a bigger role to ensuring that the elderly, children and young people can have equitable access to proper care and service. It also clarified the fields concerning family development that need more attention in the post-2015 development agenda. It proposed that the focus should be placed on solving social integration problems for the migrant population, strengthening family functions in raising children and supporting the elderly, assessing the effect of environment changes on family, and improving the family's ability of adapting to those changes. At the same time, the summit raised the international community's political will to take positive actions and jointly cope with challenges of family change, through extensive exchanges and in-depth discussion.