Source: China News Network
Beijing, December 4 (China News Service) -- "On the road to human rights protection, we feel the deepest, and our sense of gain, happiness and security is the most real. Wang Haiying, acting flag chief of the Right Middle Banner of the Xing'an League Section of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said.
The Keyou Middle Banner is the banner of ethnic minorities with the highest proportion of Mongolian population in inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and was also a national key banner for poverty alleviation and development, a concentrated and contiguous special hardship flag in the southern foothills of Daxing'anling, and a banner of deep poverty in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In 2013, the poverty incidence rate of this banner was 33% (83,576 people), and now it has achieved full poverty alleviation.
This is the epitome of china's more than 90 million people lifted out of poverty. At a time when the West often uses "democracy" and "human rights" to give China a hat, China has used its own way of governance to find the most accepted footnote for these two Western imported words, and the Chinese people also better understand the true meaning of the saying "if the shoes do not fit, only they know". "The people's happy life is the greatest human right" has become the consensus of the ruling party and more than 1.4 billion people.
On December 4, the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China released a white paper entitled Democracy in China, which stated: "In China, human rights are fully respected and effectively protected. The happy life of the people is the greatest human right. ”
In 1991, China published its first white paper on the Human Rights Situation in China. The white paper at the time pointed out: "The right to life is the primary human right that Chinese people have long fought for." ”
In the past 30 years, from focusing on the "right to subsistence and the right to development" to "the people's happy life is the greatest human right", behind the continuous expansion of the concept of Chinese rights is the development of the field of human rights practice.
Compared with the publication of the 1991 white paper on human rights, China's average life expectancy has increased from 70 years to 77.3 years, from surpassing the level of middle-income countries in the world to being at the forefront of middle- and high-income countries, and the infant mortality rate has dropped from 31 per thousand to 5.4 per thousand.
China has built the world's largest social security system, with basic medical insurance covering more than 1.3 billion people and basic pension insurance covering more than 1 billion people.
In the face of the sudden outbreak of new crown pneumonia, China has concentrated the best experts and medical resources to treat new crown pneumonia patients free of charge, from babies born just over 30 hours to elderly people in their 100s, every life has been fully protected. "Human life, human value, and human dignity are carefully cared for", and every Chinese feels a lot about this.
In the judicial field, abolish the re-education through labor system, improve the community corrections system, improve the judicial protection system for human rights, strictly implement the rules for the exclusion of illegal evidence, and gradually reduce the number of crimes for which the death penalty applies. "Let the people feel fairness in every judicial case" has become a "famous saying" for protecting human rights in the judicial field.
In the field of education, China has built the largest education system in the contemporary world, and the overall level of educational modernization and development has entered the ranks of the world's upper countries. The penetration rate and universal coverage rate of preschool education exceed 84%, and the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education has reached more than 95%.
It is worth mentioning that the Tibet Autonomous Region has fully popularized the 15-year free education policy of "eating, living, and studying" from preschool education to high school; the southern Xinjiang region of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has also implemented 15 years of free education and implemented free bilingual education for the first three years of rural school.
Qi Yanping, director of the Science and Technology and Human Rights Research Center of Beijing Institute of Technology, said that the development of modern Chinese rights and the construction of a well-off society complement each other. From "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way" to "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way", it has further consolidated the material foundation for the construction of modern Chinese rights, and also expanded the breadth and depth of respect, protection and realization of human rights. Based on China's unique history, culture and actual national conditions, the cause of modern Chinese rights has formed a new concept of attaching equal importance to "equal rights" and "capacity building" in human rights subjects, and attaching equal importance to "respect" and "protection and promotion" on the path of protection.
The National Human Rights Action Plan (2021-2025), released by the Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China in September this year, regards "promoting the freedom and all-round common development of all people" as the overall goal of the development of the human rights cause, and it is also a higher pursuit in the field of human rights in China's new development stage.
At the same time, in recent years, some of the concepts advocated by China, such as "building a community with a shared future for mankind", "promoting human rights with development", and "promoting win-win cooperation in the field of human rights", have been incorporated into the international human rights discourse system, breaking the monopoly of human rights discourse in some Western countries in the past.
Liu Huawen, executive director of the Human Rights Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that people around the world have the pursuit of a better life. The concept of human rights, human rights standards, the interpretation and evaluation of human rights should not be controlled or monopolized by one or more countries. The paths to achieving human rights goals are diverse, and there is no simple and uniform model that cannot be copied or imposed.
"What the international community needs today is not to 'sit back and talk', but to 'get up and do it.'" Fu Zitang, vice president of the Chinese Rights Research Association and president of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, said that all countries in the world should truly practice multilateralism, take solving problems as the starting point, take visual results as the orientation, promote the work in the three major areas of security, development and human rights in a balanced manner, and effectively implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. (End)