In the past 20 years since Maple Hotline launched, it has spread knowledge about mental health, provided free psychological counseling for women in all walks of life, popularized the concept of gender equality and promoted the growth of women’s psychology. On the basis of the hotline, Maple has also launched expert lines to help callers solve their life and emotion problems in terms of legal issues, healthcare, marriage, sexual relationship and women’s psychology.

 

The statistics we have collected from the past 20 years show the psychological needs of people change with the progress of society: In 1990s when Maple Hotline was just launched, four major issues that were frequently covered were healthcare for women and children, marriage and family issues, sexual issues and relationship issues; but in 2007, the issues that people were concerned as well as the gravity of issues changed: marriage and family issues weighted number one, psychological issues which were less frequently addressed ten years ago came to the second place followed by relationship issues and sexual issues. While in 2010, statistics showed that marriage issues still ranked top one, psychological issues still number two with its weight increased compared with 2007, followed by interpersonal relationship and relationship issues.

 

The statistics have showed that people face higher pressure when the whole society speeds its pace of modernization and more people suffer sub-health psychologically. According to the figures by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, now as many as 100 million people in China were sub-healthy, which is in consistency with Maple’s statistics. The number of callers who have psychological problems is increasing and their age become more youthful, among which people aged between 31 and 45 are the top group while people aged between 21 and 30 follows. Therefore, we need to popularize psychological ideas and offer convenient, confidential and free psychological counseling for people in all walks of life so that their mental status can be improved and they can enjoy harmony psychologically and interpersonally, which will eventually lead to the harmony between mankind and nature.