An online campaign saluting women fighting against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) went viral after its launch on March 3, gathering 670 million views and 194,000 netizens who left their messages.

Initiated by Chinese news portals Jinri Toutiao, cnwomen.com.cn and China Women's News to celebrate International Women's Day, the campaign has involved a large number of participants including celebrities from all walks of life and VIP users on major Chinese social media accounts.

More than 290 topics have received 100,000-plus views respectively, and 78 of them were viewed more than 1 million times for each.

The big names in the hot topics include Li Lanjuan, a 73-year-old epidemiologist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering who hurried to Wuhan, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak and capital city of Central China's Hubei Province; Chen Wei, a researcher at the Institute of Military Medical Sciences who improved the efficiency of fast-testing of the COVID-19, and many nameless females, ordinary staff members in the neighborhood.

A Chinese writer Zhou Hongxiang launched a topic featuring a post-1995 nurse working on the front line called Zhu Haixiu, saying that the post-1995 generation,  who are still young, have grown to shoulder social responsibilities.

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)