China, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC), adheres to a people-centered approach and puts people\u2019s interests in the first place when pursuing human rights. Advancing human rights through development and promoting whole-process people\u2019s democracy, the country has facilitated the full and free development of every individual.
\nChina\u2019s path of human rights development conforms to the trend of the times and suits China\u2019s national conditions. It has been proven to be successful.
\nTo respect and protect human rights is a persistent pursuit of the CPC. Launching a decisive battle against poverty that is unprecedented in scale and intensity, China has historically eradicated absolute poverty, an issue that had bothered the Chinese nation for thousands of years, which has made a more solid material foundation of the country\u2019s human rights development.
\nChina is constantly developing whole-process people\u2019s democracy, improving legal framework to ensure human rights and firmly safeguarding social equity and justice, making people\u2019s democracy more extensive, fuller in scope and sounder in practice.
\nThe country has built the world\u2019s largest education, social security, and medical and health care systems. There are 1.03 billion Chinese people included in the basic national pension scheme and 1.36 billion in the national basic medical insurance. The average life expectancy of Chinese citizens rose from 75.4 years to 77.9 years, and the ratio of middle-income earners increased from a quarter to around 1\/3. The constant improvement in the living standard and quality of the Chinese people is exactly a reflection of the country\u2019s progress in human rights.
\nThe progress couldn\u2019t have been achieved without the guidance of a science-based philosophy of human rights development. The core of the CPC\u2019s philosophy of human rights development upholds a people-centered approach, puts people\u2019s interests in the first place and ensures the principal status of the people.
\nWhat highlights China\u2019s human rights development path is the focus of the country on the people. Protecting the democratic rights of the people and unleashing their enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity, China has made its people the major participators, promoters and beneficiaries of the cause of human rights development. It is practically promoting the overall development of the people, and concrete progress has been achieved in realizing common prosperity.
\nChina\u2019s people-centered human rights philosophy has won recognition from many international observers. They said other countries should learn from China\u2019s people-centered approach to achieve common development, and China\u2019s practice, which has offered more sense of fulfillment, happiness and security for the 1.4 billion Chinese people, has provided valuable experiences for other countries to promote human rights development.
\nChina is the world\u2019s largest developing country. It believes that development holds the master key to solving all problems and advances its human rights progress.
\nChinese President Xi Jinping said that the right to subsistence is a primary basic human right and the ultimate human right is that people can lead a happy life.
\nWhat drives the country\u2019s constant human rights progress is its human rights philosophy based on its national conditions that the rights to existence and development are the primary basic human rights.
\nAccording to the Human Development Report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Human Development Index (HDI) of China rose to 0.761 in 2019 from 0.499 in 1990, making China the only country that has leaped from the low human development category to the high human development category since HDI was measured globally by the UNDP for the first time in 1990.
\nThe UN Human Rights Council has adopted China\u2019s resolution entitled \u201cThe Contribution of Development to the Enjoyment of All Human Rights\u201d for three times, and China has also won broad recognition and support from the international society for its philosophy of advancing human rights through development.
\nThe historic achievements of China\u2019s human rights fully indicate that to respect and protect human rights, countries must recognize the universality of human rights and develop an approach that suits its national conditions.
\nHuman rights have historical, specific and practical contexts. It\u2019s unrealistic to talk about human rights without taking into consideration of a country\u2019s social and political conditions, as well as its history and culture.
\nIn judging whether human rights are upheld in a country, one cannot use other countries\u2019 standards, still less apply double standards or use human rights as a political tool to interfere in the affairs of other countries.
\nNo one can claim to be perfect in human rights protection; there is always room for improvement. China has embarked on a new journey to fully build a modern socialist country, which is also a new start in the country’s human rights development.
\nChina will keep its people-centered approach, unswervingly follow its path of human rights development, and attach more importance on respecting and protecting human rights, so as to make constant progress in human rights development and make greater contributions to the global cause of human rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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