As the world’s second-largest economy and the biggest greenhouse gas emitter in total terms, China plays a significant role in addressing climate change and promoting effective action. While gender mainstreaming has been adoptedin the UN system since 1995 and has subsequently been incorporated intodifferent national policies, itis rarely recognizedin China’s climate policies. However, enhancing women’s participation in climate is an important way of advancing women’s empowerment and policy effectiveness.As a young woman with an economics and public administration background and coming from China, my research provides a contentanalysis of national climate change policies in China to examine gender perspectives.I analysehow national policies overlook gender differences in climate change adaptation and frame climate challengeas a scientific and gender-neutral problem. Although gender mainstreaming has been recognized internationally as a strategy in the given policy area, thegender concept is almost absent from China’s climate change discourse. Gender is often depoliticized in related plans and strategies. Instead, climate change is primarily associated with economics, technology andsecurity. This notwithstanding, the Chinese government appears to have belatedly recognized the importance of integrating gender into climate issues, as reflected in more recent reports and policy recommendations.