Promoting this campaign and ideology was important to the ACWF, and it encouraged local chapters to form women's congresses to spread the message.
The committee for the 4th National Women's Congress met in 1976, started rehabilitating many of the female cadres sent to the countryside, and reinstated the ACWF.
The party officially declared the ACWF a supervisory body in the early 1990s, so the ACWF is responsible for analyzing that effectiveness of the government in promoting women's rights.
The ACWF was completely reestablished in 1978 and soon it announced its support for the Four Modernizations, Deng Xiaoping's plan to modernize agriculture, national defense, industry and technology in China.
The offices of the ACWF were occupied by the army and many of the female cadres who had been involved with the women's movement were sent to labor camps in the countryside.
The CPC's time in the soviets from 1927 1945 also gave them the opportunity to develop the skills for organizing federations and governing, which greatly facilitated the founding of the ACWF later.
The ACWF increasingly studied women's movements in other countries, and held debates that transcended the parameters set by the CPC.
However the local level must also carry out the directive and report to the CPC committee in addition to following the ACWF.
With these changes, the ACWF became less concerned with mobilizing grass roots organization, and focused on its role in setting the public discourse for the social and political issues of women.
ACWF was able to reach out to women's movements abroad, and even hosted 23 delegations from other parts of the world for the Asia Women's Representative Conference in December 1949.
The ACWF soon developed beyond its original mission of promoting gender equality, and it became a tool used by the party to mobilize women for economic, political and ideological motives.
