White Paper on Human Rights 30 Years The people's happy life is the greatest human right

Beijing, October 15 (China News Service) "In the past 2020 and the 2021 we are spending, we have made two major achievements in human rights protection, one is to effectively control the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, guaranteeing the right to life and health of more than 1.4 billion Chinese; the other is to win the battle against poverty, under the current standards, 98.99 million rural poor people have all been lifted out of poverty, ensuring the right to subsistence and development." Li Junru, vice president of the Chinese Rights Research Association, said on the 15th that these two major achievements are the best interpretation of the theory of Chinese rights.

On October 15, a symposium was held in Beijing to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of the White Paper on the State of Human Rights in China. China News Service reporter Tian Yuhao photographed

The symposium to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of the White Paper on the Human Rights Situation in China was held in Beijing on the same day. "The people's happy life is the greatest human right" has become a hot topic.

Li Ning, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, said that in March 2004, the Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress passed an amendment to the Constitution, which enshrined "the state respects and protects human rights" into the Constitution, making "respecting and protecting human rights" the basic principle of the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics. The legal system for guaranteeing the right to Chinese with the Constitution as the core has basically taken shape, and the level of legalization of the Chinese rights guarantee has continuously stepped up to a new level.

"As stated in the first chapter of the 1991 White Paper on the Human Rights Situation in China, the right to subsistence is the primary human right that Chinese people have long fought for." Li Xiaomei, special representative of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs for human rights affairs, said: "Over the past 30 years, we have adhered to promoting human rights through development, adhered to the path of human rights development in line with China's national conditions, and continuously developed people's democracy in the whole process, which is China's greatest enlightenment to all countries in the world." Our comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society, the historic solution to the problem of absolute poverty, and the successful fight against the new crown epidemic are China's greatest contributions to the cause of human rights in the world. We have done our own thing well and achieved human rights achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, which is the greatest confidence for China to participate in global human rights governance. ”

Xiang Zicheng, vice chairman of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, said that as of the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan", after targeted poverty alleviation and precise poverty alleviation, 7.1 million poor disabled people who have established archives have all been lifted out of poverty as scheduled. 1.075 million disabled people have received assistance and support from the extremely poor, more than 10 million disabled people have been included in the scope of the minimum living guarantee, more than 12 million disabled people with difficulties have received living allowances, and more than 14 million severely disabled people have received nursing subsidies. The participation rate of basic old-age insurance for the disabled in urban and rural areas exceeds 90%, and the participation rate of basic medical insurance has reached 95%. In the fight against COVID-19, the safety and physical health of people with disabilities have been protected to the greatest extent.

"China's tremendous achievements in poverty reduction are the most vivid interpretation of the concept of human rights with Chinese characteristics that regards the right to subsistence and the right to development as the primary basic human right." Chen Hongbo, director of the Department of Policies and Regulations of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau of China, said that China's comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation has proved the effectiveness of China's poverty reduction plan and shown the endogenous nature of the poverty reduction model and the choice of human rights development path, thus providing a new sample and new experience for the vast number of developing countries to promote poverty reduction, and enriching the concept of human rights, human rights culture and human rights development path.

"Compared with the publication of the white paper in 1991, the average life expectancy of Chinese has increased from 70 years to 77.3 years, from surpassing the level of middle-income countries in the world to being at the top of the middle and high-income countries, and the infant mortality rate has fallen from 31 per thousand to 5.4 per thousand." Yu Xuejun, deputy director of the National Health Commission of China, said that China has formed a model of health rights protection that meets its national conditions, and its main characteristics are health priority, prevention first, public welfare leadership, fairness and inclusiveness, co-construction and sharing, and has been praised by the World Health Organization as "a model for developing countries".

Jiang Jianguo, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, stressed that the Chinese dream of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is essentially a process of continuously promoting the development of the human rights cause. "We must enhance human rights self-confidence, grasp the new development stage, implement the new development concept, build a new development pattern, lead comprehensive and coordinated high-quality development, pay attention to the balance, coordination and sustainability of development, and continuously meet the people's growing needs for diversified, multi-level and multi-faceted rights." It is necessary to further increase investment and optimize supply in employment, education, medical care, and old-age care, and continuously improve the level of security in terms of democracy, rule of law, fairness, justice, security, environment and other rights and interests that are closely related to human rights, and strive to make the people enjoy a happier and more healthy life. (End)

Source: China News Network