Guangxi accelerates efforts to enhance the rule of law featuring ethnic culture

In recent years, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has introduced a set of measures to promote the standardization of legal publicity in ethnic groups on a regular basis, to effectively enhance law-based governance on ethnic affairs. 

Highlighting ethnic culture

By pooling ethnic cultural resources and social support, Guangxi has been dedicated to exploring and developing a group of brand projects centered on ethnic legal culture.

For example, in Xincheng county of Guangxi's Laibin city, a folk song team consisting of 12 singers has been established to incorporate legal knowledge - including various laws and regulations, into folk song lyrics, based on local people's preferences and the songs' rhythm.

Over eight folk song programs on legal publicity have been compiled to continuously carry out legal popularization activities in the form of singing folk songs in Guangxi's towns.

This year, on the third day of the third lunar month, local governments invited popular folk song singers to adapt such content as the Constitution, the Civil Code and Chinese traditional virtues into folk song lyrics. They also conducted legal popularization activities through collecting and promoting short videos about folk songs featuring the rule of law on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.

Over the past two years, the activity has attracted a total of 1.5 million people online. In addition, Guangxi has organized relevant people to write over 200 folk songs featuring the rule of law, and has explored the model of bringing folk songs into mediation rooms, so as to integrate folk culture with legal publicity, as well as dispute resolution.

Promoting rural vitalization

By relying on public facilities, such as libraries, memorial halls, parks, squares, and scenic spots, Guangxi's judicial administrative authorities at all levels have made efforts to establish bases for legal publicity and education.

To date, Guangxi has established legal culture bases that cover its 111 county-level regions and 952 bases of all kinds for legal publicity and education, and set up 37 cultural parks and squares, as well as 9,272 cultural corridors themed on the rule of law.

A total of 21 legal education bases for minors and 127 democracy and rule of law demonstration villages have also been established.  

In the meantime, Guangxi has further advanced the project to cultivate legal savvy talents in villages and communities. Over 50,000 such talents have been cultivated to assist villages and communities in publicizing laws and regulations, mediating disputes and expressing public opinions.

Innovating forms of publicity and education

Consistent efforts have been made to innovate forms of legal publicity and education targeting teenagers, as well as to sum up creative experience on such activities as legal popularization on campus and in moot courts, achieving good social effects and legal results.

In addition, Guangxi has carried out the creation and open-call activity for cultural works on the rule of law, in the form of painting, photography, micro videos and cartoons.

It has collected over 420 such works over the past two years, with outstanding works being showcased via online and offline platforms, in a bid to conduct legal popularization and publicity through daily stories and cultural works from all walks of life.