钢板网护栏:China drafts new human rights action plan

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China drafts new human rights action plan

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Wang Chen, State Council Information Office minister, speaks at the conference

A senior Chinese official says the country is drawing up a four-year plan to improve the country's human rights record.


State Council Information Office minister Wang Chen says the 2012-2015 plan has the "aim of expanding democracy, enhancing the rule of law, improving the people's livelihood and safeguarding human rights".


He says there will be challenges to overcome along the way, including wide gaps in incomes, increased pressure on prices and increasing social conflicts.


Wang's comments were published on Wednesday by the state-run China Daily newspaper.



Human rights are a sensitive subject in China, which complains that Western countries are unfairly critical and points to its success in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the last three decades.


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The assessment of last four year plan and achievement


Beijing defines human rights primarily in terms of improving living conditions for its 1.3 billion people and maintains strict controls over free speech, religion, political activity and independent social groups.


It says a country should define human rights taking into account its own level of economic development and social systems.



China is drafting a new national human rights action plan for the next four years to improve the country's human rights record, people's wellbeing and expand democracy.


The National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2012-2015), the country's second document of the kind, will set "comprehensive and systematic" goals in various fields of human rights and measures to achieve the goals, said Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office (SCIO).


Mr Wang said the cause of human rights in China was "still facing many difficulties and challenges", partly because of wide gaps in incomes, rising inflation and increasing social conflicts caused by illegal land seizures. Protesters often complain of local authorities unfairly taking their land.


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People's livelihood gains great improvment under CPC leadership


China's first action plan to improve human rights ran from 2009-2010. Wang said the plan's successes were noticeable in areas of development, education, political rights, ethnic minorities, women, children, elderly and the disabled.


These included abolishing the death penalty for 13 types of economic non-violent crimes, prohibiting law enforcement officers from obtaining confessions by torture and illegal detention, and exempting 130 million rural students from paying school tuition fees.


The new action plan will be made, implemented and supervised by a joint meeting mechanism led by the SCIO and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and composed of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations and research institutions, Wang said at an assessment meeting of the 2009-2010 plan, the country's first human rights action plan, on Tuesday.


The new plan will be guided by the Scientific Outlook of Development and the spirit of expanding democracy, strengthening rule of law, improving people's wellbeing and safeguarding human rights, he said.


The new plan will also incorporate parts of the country's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) and the mid- and long-term development plan of various government departments, he said.




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