The purpose of this institution is to improve the knowledge and ability of population activities to meet the needs of the country, region and the world in population activities and family planning; Coordinate planning and planning work, and urge countries to find feasible solutions to population problems according to their respective plans; The funds for providing financial assistance to developing countries come from donations from governments and individuals.

UNFPA is directly affiliated to the United Nations General Assembly. The lead agency is the Executive Board. The members of the Executive Board are elected by the Economic and Social Council on the basis of the principle of regional distribution and the principle of representation of major donor countries and recipient countries for a term of three years. The Executive Board holds three regular sessions and one annual session every year. The Executive Board is responsible for examining and approving the assistance projects provided by UNFPA to developing countries and the administrative and financial budgets of UNFPA. The secretariat handles daily affairs under the leadership of the Executive Director and has offices in more than 60 countries. The term of office of the executive director is five years.

1978 in may, China signed a memorandum of understanding with the delegation of the United nations population fund to preliminarily determine cooperation projects. 1980 Beijing Representative Office was established, and the representative in China is also the representative of UNDP. 1The annual meeting of the United Nations Population Fund in June 1995 and the General Assembly in February 65438 passed resolutions respectively, and decided that the director of the United Nations Population Fund's representative office in China would be renamed as the representative in China, and the representative of the United Nations Development Programme in China would no longer serve as the representative. 1980, UNFPA began to provide assistance to China; China also contributed to the fund.

The United Nations Population Fund began to operate on 1969. Its main responsibility is to help developing countries solve population problems, and it is the largest international organization in population assistance. About a quarter of the assistance to developing countries is completed through the United Nations Population Fund.