Among the campaign of "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005" nominees, 108 Chinese women, including the grassroots anti-AIDS heroine Gao Yaojie, were listed.

　　The campaign, supported by the Swiss Peace Foundation, vowed to select 1,000 grassroots women for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize to tell their stories and highlight their innovative and enduring efforts in achieving a more holistic sense of "peace," according to the campaign's regional coordinator Hong Kong-based Lingnan University.

　　Among the 108 nominated women, 81 are from the Chinese mainland, 18 are from Taiwan and nine are from Hong Kong, the DaheDaily, a local newspaper in central China's Henan Province said.