CCTV News from Shenyang on September 7 (reporter Fei Quan and Bai Dezhang) On the shores of the Bohai Sea, the Liaohe River surges. Liaoning is the "birthplace of national legal popularization", and the gene of the rule of law has long been deeply embedded in the historical soil of "the new China's legal popularization came from here". Now it has gained new vitality in the digital age.
In 1986, the "First Five-Year Plan" legal popularization started, and in the past 40 years, legal popularization among all people has been moving forward. This year, the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization has been officially launched, and the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Legal Publicity and Education" has been fully implemented. The legal publicity and education has shifted from policy-driven to law-based implementation. Liaoning regards online legal publicity as a basic project to serve the overall revitalization and cultivate the people's belief in the rule of law, and explores a new way of online legal popularization with "cloud aggregation, market people's hearts, and digital intelligence to improve quality and efficiency."
Coordinating at a high level to build a solid foundation for Internet law popularization in the new era of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan"
The "Ninth Five-Year Plan" legal popularization focuses on the implementation of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Legal Publicity and Education" and requires the exploration of new models for accurate legal popularization and the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to achieve intelligent content generation, precise delivery, and real-time interaction. In June this year, Liaoning issued the "Key Points of Provincial Law Popularization and Law-based Governance in 2026" and a list of legal popularization responsibilities of provincial (central) units, including 106 units in the responsibility system to consolidate legal popularization responsibilities.
Focusing on the overall revitalization, the province focuses on precise interpretation of laws in key areas such as optimizing the legalized business environment, promoting private economic development, and promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, deploys a series of special actions for "Qinglang Liaohe" network ecological governance, and incorporates network law popularization into the "big law popularization" pattern. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Office of Law-based Governance will deploy and promote legal popularization and the investigation and resolution of conflicts and disputes at the same time, relying on node activities such as "The Rule of Law, Safe Spring Festival" and other node activities to prevent risks at the source; focusing on high-quality economic development, planning and optimizing the business environment special legal popularization, introducing the law into the enterprise publicity season and other activities to accurately respond to corporate compliance bottlenecks.
Position determines the pattern. Liaoning is taking the consciousness of "the birthplace of legal popularization" to polish its characteristic brand, build a legal popularization matrix, expand the "cloud + physical" position, and transform the 40-year legal popularization tradition into a comprehensive revitalization of the rule of law.
Matrix linkage, cloud legal dissemination "enters thousands of households"
In the early morning, passengers on Shenyang Metro Line 1 saw the short video "Shenyang Legal Education" - a neighborhood dispute animation explaining the laws on neighbor relations. All regions in Liaoning have strengthened their all-media legal popularization platforms: Shenyang has integrated the "Shenyang Legal Popularization" WeChat public account, "Shengjing's Statement" Douyin account, and FM98.6 radio column to achieve accurate push; Panjin's "Xiaozhi Statement" interprets the law with animated shorts and comics; Chaoyang has cultivated local legal popularization IP, and "Xiao Ding Live Room" allows people's livelihood legal problems to be answered in the cloud.
The key to matrix linkage is the same frequency across the entire spectrum. Liaoning has established a five-level government new media matrix at the provincial, municipal, county, township and village levels, integrating more than 100 news websites and more than 2,600 government new media accounts, synchronizing with Sina, Toutiao and other platforms to establish a "law-abiding and good citizen" communication matrix. The provincial-level "Liaoning Law Popularization" WeChat public account has shifted from "one-way push" to "two-way interaction". Based on click-through rates, it determines the needs of the rule of law, customizes personalized content, and pushes more than 10,000 graphic and textual videos of law popularization. "Publicization of the Law at Fingertips" breaks the limitations of time and space and allows the nutrients of the rule of law to reach across mountains and seas and directly to the end of the body.
Innovative scenes and fireworks in the market "moisten the heart of the Dharma"
"You can also learn legal knowledge by taking the bus." Shenyang citizens have a simple evaluation of the "Law Ruler" law popularization bus. All parts of Liaoning have embedded legal education into daily life scenes: Shenyang built "rule of law" special buses based on key street bus routes, with legal knowledge integrated into the body, signboards, and handrails; Panjin formed a static legal education network with smart electronic bus stop signs, and new energy buses transformed into "mobile legal education pods" that broadcast labor rights protection in the morning peak, lectured on the Family Education Promotion Law during the evening peak, and promoted the minor protection law at schools passing by.
Night markets, morning markets, and the coastline have become the most down-to-earth places to popularize the law. Jinzhou organized volunteers to go to Linghe Night Market and Shiqiaozi Morning Market to set up booths for popularizing the law; Yingkou built a "Night Market for Legal Popularization", where volunteers became "stall owners for popularizing the law" and focused on the resolution of conflicts and women's and children's rights.
The physical positions took root simultaneously. The province has built 2,188 legal parks, squares, bases and other physical positions. Shenyang has achieved full coverage of legal parks in counties and districts. Fushun has built a rule of law landscape cluster on the 26-kilometer Hunhe Riverside Road. Anshan has built 18 Constitution Squares. The two-wheel drive of "cloud + physical" makes legal education visible, tangible and retainable.
Protecting seedlings and curing chaos, spreading the law and governing with "hard hands"
The rule of law on the Internet must not only "moisten things silently", but also "hang a sharp sword high". Liaoning insists on promoting both popularization and governance, and integrates legal education into the entire process of law enforcement interviews and orders for rectification. In 2026, a series of special actions for "Qinglang Liaohe" online ecological governance will be launched, focusing on rectifying "self-media" violations, corporate-related online infringements, publishing online content detrimental to the physical and mental health of minors, abuse of AI technology, and illegal online products; Dalian launched the "e-Enterprise Connected Heart · Protecting the Business Network Environment" special action to consolidate the responsibilities of platform entities; Dandong established an online law enforcement coordination and linkage mechanism, and its "case of a hijacking of a trading company's website" was adopted as one of the first batch of typical cases of cybersecurity law enforcement in the province.
"Guarding seedlings" is the softest and most determined corner. Dalian has created the "Bincheng Hua Mulan" legal cultural IP. The 18-episode short film explains anti-domestic violence and consumer rights protection. The integrated media legal education brand is deeply loved by netizens; Himalaya FM's "Prosecutor's Statement" attracted 970,000 listens; more than 5,000 judges, prosecutors, public security officers, and judicial administrators in the province also serve as vice principals of the rule of law, and 69 youth rule of law education bases have blossomed.
The quality of grassroots governance is improved through popularization of the law. The province has established 107 national-level "democracy and rule of law demonstration villages" and 386 provincial-level ones, and cultivated 89,000 "law-savvy people". Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, as a pilot county for national citizens' legal literacy improvement actions, compiles and prints rural-related law popularization textbooks and implements "six major projects" to form replicable experience. Acting in accordance with the law, finding methods when encountering problems, using methods to solve problems, and resolving conflicts by relying on the law are becoming the social norm in Liaoshen.
Digital intelligence empowerment, wisdom popularization "improving quality and efficiency"
When the seeds of the rule of law are equipped with digital wings, they can cross mountains and seas and reach the end of the world. Chaoyang City built a civil code theme park and a youth rule of law education practice base, and launched special courses based on AI interactive experiences and VR mock courts; Fuxin City built the province's first prefecture-level network security publicity and education base, using shared bicycle voice broadcasts, bus stop announcements and other methods to popularize the law; Huludao City launched an original theme song with the theme of "Cyber Security, Singing Between Mountains and Seas", and related practices were rated as outstanding cases of national network legal publicity by the Central Cyberspace Administration.
Digital empowers the judiciary, making justice faster and more efficient. Liaoning comprehensively deepens the construction of digital courts, improves the full-process online case handling system of online litigation, asynchronous trials, and blockchain evidence storage, optimizes the political and legal collaborative case handling platform, and realizes one-click transfer of criminal cases and full traceability; orderly expands public interest litigation for intellectual property procuratorial work, and the "Chaoyang Xiaomi" geographical indication protection case has been selected as a typical case of the national procuratorial organs. The in-depth application of digital technology has made Liaoning's online rule of law both faster and warmer.
The dim light gathers the stars and rivers, and the Dharma moistens the vast expanse of mountains and rivers. The "Little Chi" animation lights up on the Panjin bus screen, Anshan's "Dongjian Opera Garden" integrated media legal education brand is watched by children, and the sound of answering questions along the Xingcheng coastline is intertwined with the fireworks of Linghe Night Market. The rule of law on the Internet is no longer a written text, but something that can be felt, touched, and used in daily life.
The implementation of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Publicity and Education of the Rule of Law" provides legal compliance for the popularization of the law among all people. The clarion call of the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" for the popularization of the law calls for the popularization of the law, observance of integrity and innovation in the new era. Liaoning, the hot land of "the birthplace of national legal popularization", is using the ambition to climb higher, the trend of expanding outwards, and the power of new breakthroughs to gather the majestic synergy of all regions and all walks of life, striving to write a new chapter of "E-law walking together, revitalizing Liaoning and governing Ning", and using high-level network rule of law to contribute to the construction of a strong country and national rejuvenation.
(China Internet Development Foundation China Positive Energy Network Communication Special Fund Support Project)
