BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- Women have been playing a unique role in cultivation of family virtues in China, according to a white paper released by the State Council Information Office Thursday.

Titled "Equality, Development and Sharing: Progress of Women's Cause in 70 Years Since New China's Founding," the white paper said that China has always attached great importance to family building, focused on protecting women's rights to marriage and family, and increasingly consolidated the equality between men and women in marriage and family relations.

China has established a marriage and family system to improve the equality between men and women, and a policy system to support family and women's development, according to the white paper.

China has put efforts in coordinating social resources to support family education service, emphasizing the unique role of women in cultivating family virtues, and has seen a more equal, harmonious, and civilized family relationship in the new era, the white paper said.