Shanghai event enhances rural women's legal literacy

China has attached greater importance to the legal literacy of grassroots women and females living in rural areas, aiming for a more harmonious countryside development and better protection of women's legal rights.

A legal knowledge popularization event was held in Shanghai on Sunday, inviting over 300 Chinese female representatives from all walks of life and 40 female diplomats from foreign embassies in China — such as Lebanon and The Bahamas' embassies — as well as some officials from United Nations agencies.

The event was jointly organized by four central departments including the All-China Women's Federation, Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The event was the fifth sideline event under a State-level campaign launched by the four central departments in March this year, aiming to enhance grassroots women's legal literacy and their awareness of rights protection with laws.

Several activities including singing, on-site sitcoms and a legal knowledge quiz show were staged during the event, according to the latest news release by the women's federation.

The federation said that about 1.69 million legal knowledge popularization activities have been organized at grassroots level so far under the campaign, covering 420,000 villages nationwide with about 32.69 million attendances. Also, about 600,000 online legal knowledge popularization events have been organized so far, according to the release.