China has embarked on a path of human rights development that conforms to the trend of the world and suits China's national conditions, providing a model for the development of the international human rights cause and a new choice for all countries, especially those in the Global South, to independently explore the path of human rights development.
On January 26, local time, the 45th session of the Working Group on Country Practices Reviews of the United Nations Human Rights Council held in Geneva, Switzerland, unanimously adopted the report on China's participation in the fourth round of country reviews of human rights, which fully demonstrates the international community's recognition of China's unremitting efforts and historic achievements in promoting and protecting human rights.
Country reviews on human rights are an important platform for countries to engage in equal and frank exchanges on human rights issues and to carry out constructive dialogue and cooperation within the framework of the United Nations. China attaches great importance to this round of deliberations, participates in the deliberations in a frank and open manner, and exchanges and mutual learning with all parties for common progress. During the deliberations, voices that positively appraised the achievements of Chinese's human rights cause became mainstream at the venue. More than 120 countries have fully affirmed China's tremendous achievements in promoting and protecting human rights, spoke highly of the concept and practice of human rights with Chinese characteristics, and appreciated China's development and progress for its important contributions to the cause of human rights in the world.
As the only major country in the world that has continuously formulated and implemented the four phases of the National Human Rights Action Plan, China has made historic achievements in the cause of human rights by insisting on a systematic approach to human rights development. China adheres to the people-centered development philosophy, puts the right to subsistence and the right to development first, pays attention to ensuring and improving people's livelihood in the process of development, ensures that the fruits of development are shared by the people, and strives to promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of economic, social and cultural rights and civil and political rights, and significantly improves the level of human rights protection. Since participating in the third round of the country-by-country human rights review in 2018, China has achieved a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, pioneered the exploration of whole-chain, all-round and full-coverage people's democracy, and successively formulated new legal ...... to protect the people's rights, such as the Civil Code, the Law on the Protection of Personal Information, and the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-free EnvironmentA series of achievements in the promotion and protection of human rights have been real. During the current round of deliberations, many representatives of developing countries said that the path of human rights development in Chinese conforms to China's national conditions and the aspirations of the people.
China has embarked on a path of human rights development that conforms to the trend of the world and suits China's national conditions, providing a model for the development of the international human rights cause and a new choice for all countries, especially those in the Global South, to independently explore the path of human rights development. For a long time, under the banner of so-called "universal human rights" and "human rights above sovereignty", some Western countries have forcibly promoted Western concepts and systems of democracy and human rights in the world, and have wantonly interfered in the internal affairs of other countries by using human rights issues, resulting in frequent wars, long-term social turmoil, and displacement of people in some countries. There is no one-size-fits-all human rights development path in the world, nor is there a one-size-fits-all human rights development model. The people of all countries have the right and should independently explore a path of human rights development that suits their own realities. China stands for respecting the diversity of world civilizations, implementing the Global Civilization Initiative, strengthening exchanges and mutual learning, encouraging and respecting the human rights development paths chosen by all countries, and ensuring the equal enjoyment of human rights by the people of all countries through modernization with their own characteristics.
While promoting the high-quality development of its own human rights cause, China has carried out extensive exchanges and cooperation in the field of human rights, making China's contribution to global human rights governance. Since the third round of review, China has acceded to the Marrakesh Treaty and other human rights treaties and actively participated in the review of its implementation. ** The President's proposal to "safeguard human rights through security", "promote human rights through development" and "promote human rights through cooperation" has had a far-reaching impact. The 53rd session of the UN Human Rights Council once again adopted the resolution "The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights" submitted by China; In October 2023, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously adopted the draft resolution on the promotion and protection of economic, social and cultural rights in the context of the elimination of inequality proposed by China for the first time, demonstrating China's contribution to promoting international human rights justice and progress. During the current round of review, China announced that it will take 30 new measures to protect human rights, including improving people's livelihood and well-being, strengthening legal protection of human rights, promoting international human rights cooperation, and supporting the work of UN human rights mechanisms. Delegates from many countries expressed their expectation that China would play a leading role in global human rights governance and uphold international fairness and justice.
In the historical process of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization, China will always hold high the banner of peace, development and win-win cooperation, advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and inclusive economic globalization, provide new opportunities for the world with its new development, promote the development of global human rights governance in a more fair, just, reasonable and inclusive direction, and work with other countries to write a new chapter in the world's human rights cause.