Various law popularization activities carried out across China to different ends

A variety of activities to improve the public legal awareness have been carried out since the release of a circular on organizing a nationwide law popularization campaign. 

Issued by the Publicity Department of the CPC, the Ministry of Justice and the Office for Dissemination of Legal Knowledge, the circular required local authorities across China to carry out law popularization to support national strategies such as preventing and defusing financial risks, targeted poverty alleviation, pollution control, rural vitalization and the going out of enterprises.

Given that China's battle against poverty has entered the decisive phase, it's a major task of the law popularization and law-based governance work to facilitate the fight against poverty. 

The justice department of Southwest China's Guizhou province drafted and compiled a collection of contract templates with subjects ranging from the purchase and sale of agricultural products to the development of e-commerce in rural areas.

The aim of the collection is to help farmers living in impoverished villages better protect their rights and interests under the contracts. Due to its concision and practicality, the collection is also affectionately called a dictionary on contracts.

In the meantime, the law popularization activity in Shenzhen, a city in Southeast China's Guangdong province, is centered on the city's private enterprises, which account for over 90 percent of local businesses and serve as a major growth driver of the local economy.

The law popularization agency of Southwest China's Chongqing also targeted the municipality's private enterprises by compiling a handbook on the control of legal risks. In addition, the city has so far held over 800 law popularization events for local enterprises.

By applying such new technologies as artificial intelligence, cloud computing and mobile internet, the justice department of Shenzhen developed a system for examining the legal compliance of local private companies which could help them mitigate lawsuit risks by spotting weaknesses and loopholes in their internal regulations.

As part of the campaign of rooting out organized crime and local mafia, the law popularization agencies in Beijing launched an online prize-giving quiz about the campaign on Wechat as early as March, which has attracted more than 42,000 participants.

Meanwhile, the justice department of Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi province, is also contributing to the campaign against organized crime and local mafia by organizing an examination for the city's some 11,000 public servants.