Shanxi creatively combines postal services with law publicity

Since its beginning last December, the project of combining postal services and law publicity launched by North China's Shanxi province has become a brand of the province and achieved desirable outcomes.

The project was launched by the province's judicial department during last year’s week-long Constitution publicity campaign that started on Dec 4, the National Constitution Day, and was aimed at drawing on postal services to publicize legal knowledge across the province. The move gained full recognition and support from the Ministry of Justice and the National Law Popularization Office.

Since then cities across Shanxi have taken action to implement the project. In the city of Lvliang, over 400 postmen have been tasked with delivering some 200,000 copies of legal information publications to villages, communities, public agencies, schools and enterprises within the city's jurisdiction. In addition, it has posted legal information slogans on its 139 postal service vehicles and displayed legal information on LED screens in all of its 60 local postal offices. It also mailed printed laws and regulations sealed in dedicated envelopes to rural areas.

Seventy-six law enforcement agencies in the city of Shuozhou have distributed over 15,000 copies of promotional materials and more than 5,000 promotional gadgets via the city's postal network. Apart from postal services, the city also invited a number of private delivery companies to join the project in an effort to increase legal knowledge in households.

Postmen in the Jiangxian county in Yuncheng have also played a vital role in the local judicial bureau's campaign to prompt legal education in rural areas. Twenty-four postmen have traveled in their official vehicles across more than 100 villages, handing out legal publications about epidemic control and the crackdown on new-type telecom crimes to over 10,000 villagers.

Taking a step forward, the city of Yangquan has combined the postal service-based law promotion project with other projects like rural law libraries in order to cultivate legal culture in its rural areas.