Six students from Xi'an Gaoxin No. 1 High School are going to make their voices heard when their proposal is put forward during the fourth annual session of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), which will kick off in Beijing Thursday.

Their prize-winning proposal for the construction of nursing rooms in public spaces at the second National Youth Model CPPCC event is going to be submitted by Wang Yuan, CPPCC National Committee member, on March 3.

"For the first time, I feel proud to be a citizen. Every citizen's voice will be heard and every citizen's demand deserves respect," said Zhang Donggang, one of the six students.

The topic of a room for breastfeeding is seemingly of little concern to high school students. The inspiration actually came from a volunteer teacher, who was also the working mother of a four-month-old.

Due to the lack of a nursing room at their school, she had to lock the teachers’ office and nurse under the table when everyone left the room for lunch. She felt bad when she learned that one of her male colleagues had complained about her "improper behavior."

These students have set up four surveys for people in different walks of life. After four months of research, their proposal was finally drafted using fewer than 2,000 Chinese characters, as a great deal of thought and effort went into each one.

CPPCC is no longer a remote concept in a textbook for Chinese youth, said Zhang Wuhua, deputy director of the Central Education Committee, China's Zhi Gong Party, and also the founder of the Model CPPCC event.

In fact, all three winning proposals from the second National Youth Model CPPCC event, which was held last August, will be submitted to the real CPPCC for consideration this year.

Similar to Model U.N., where students learn about the organization’s operations by simulating its political process, the Model CPPCC event aims to give students firsthand experience with the process through which social issues are identified and researched, plans are drafted to address these problems, and policy is written and passed through cooperation and negotiation.