Push for New Developments in China’s Human Rights

In June 2012,with the approval of the State Council,the State Council Information Office issued the National Human Rights Action Plan(2012-15)(the"Action Plan"),the second national plan under the same theme.In the past two years,under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee and General Secretary Xi Jinping,the Action Plan     

Rule of Law Fully Founded

Governing the country according to the law and building a socialist state with rule of law are fundamental strategies for running the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, especially over the past three decades of reform and opening-up, through the unremitting efforts of the national People's Congress and its Standing Committee, the State Council, the local people's congresses and their standing committees, as well as all secto...     

Yan＇an： Red Capital,Green Revolution

YAN’AN on the Loess Plateau is known as the red cradle of the Chinese Revolution. It was here, from 1935 to 1947, that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and Mao Zedong directed the resistance against the Japanese invasion behind enemy lines and fought the Liberation War against the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang, laying a solid foundation for the People’s Republic of China.     

China Tries RMB Regionalization Measure

ON March 23, 2009, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People＇s Bank of China, published his article,“Thoughts on the Reform of the International Monetary System,”which has attracted considerable public interest. What is the future of the RMB in the current gloomy global economic environment？ Xia Bin, president of the Financial Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, hit the mark with the comment, “China is not pursuing the optimum target of complete intema-tionalization of the RMB, but a suboptimal one： gradual regionalization of the currency.”     

A Priority for Progress

One of the focuses of the annual meetings of the National People's Congress,the national legislature,and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,the top political advisory body,is the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25) and the longrange objectives through the year 2035.Urbanization is an essential part of this focus as it is directly connected with the balanced development of different regions.     

Origin of the ＂Easl Turkistan＂ Issue

The term ＂Turkistan＂ appeared in Arabic geographical works in the Middle Ages. It meant ＂the region of the Turks＂ and referred to the areas north of the Sir River in Central Asia and the adjoining areas to the east of the river. With the evolution of history, the modem ethnic groups in Central Asia were established one after another. By the 18th century, the geographical concept of ＂Turkistan＂ was already very vague,     

Contribution of Development of China's Higher Education to Human Rights Undertaking

Human rights are the rights and freedoms of humans in their nature, and represent the basic conditions for the free and complete development of the humankind. The educational develop- ment level is an important mark of the level of realization of human rights. China＇s higher education realized the historic development in the 1998- 2007 period, and the number of the enrolled students at common colleges and universities across the nation had exploded from 3.4 million to 18.85 million, the number one in the world.     

胡锦涛致信中国人权研究会强调— 一如既往坚持以人为本 切实推动人权事业发展

Chinese President Hu Jintao has vowed the Chinese people will, as always, work together with the international community to promote healthy development of the human rights cause in the world. Hu made the remarks in a letter to the China Society for Human Rights Studies on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.     

Exchange Is at the Heart of Culture——Interview with Mathias Lafolie,Cultural Counselor at the Swedish Embassy in Beijing

THIS year marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the Kingdom of Sweden.To learn more about the relationship between the two cultures,China Today interviewed Mathias Lafolie,the Cultural Counselor at the Swedish Em-     

Tibet Implementing Essential Medicines SYstem

On the eve of the official opening of the ASEAN Free Trade Zone, the Yunnan sections of international highways--for example the Kunming-Bangkok （Thailand） Road, the Kunming-Hanoi （Vietnam） Road and the Kunming-Mandalay-Myitkyina （Burma） Road--have all achieved the status of high-grade highways.     

Green Ideas from Other Parties

CHINA has eight political parties in addition to the ruling Communist Party of China （CPC） that participate in the managment of state affairs. They are the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, the China Democratic League, the China Democratic National Construction Association, the China Association for Promoting Democracy, the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, the China Zhi Gong （Public Interest） Party, the Jiu San （September 3） Society, and the Taiwan Democratic Self- Government League.     

A Cultural Journey Through European Civilization in Beijing

正LI Sisi,a sophomore of the Central Academy of Fine Arts,cannot take her eyes off a bust of the Goddess Isis.She marvels at the perfection of the statue dated to 150-250,taking photos of it from different angles.On the other side of the exhibition hall at the National Museum of China(NMC)in central Beijing,a middle-aged couple is looking for the route of the Crusades on a map of the ancient Mediterranean.Such scenes replay every day at the"Mediterranean World from the Collections of the Musée du     

Being and Nothingness, Chinese Style

THE two centuries from the founding of the Wei Kingdom in 220 to the end of the Jin Dynasty in 420 were punctured by chronic wars and frequent regime changes. To stay out of the ugly and bloody political strife, philosophers of the time turned away from the brutality of politics and started exploring the ontological existence of the world, building on the cosmology of the previous Han Dynasty. Studies on the relationship between being (you) and nothingness (wu) flourished, becoming Neo-Daoism in the Wei-Jin Period.     

Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art

IN 2007, Chinese artists heed a number of retrospective exhibitions, such as the Retrospective Exhibition of the No Name Group （1979）, the Exhibition of 1985 Avant-garde Fine Art, the Retrospective Exhibition of the Star Art Group of 30 Years Ago, and the Exhibition of the Qingdao Dream of Modern Artists in the 1980s. Thirty years ago, however, many of the works now openly displayed were exhibited unofficially, and some were even banned by the government. Conventional wisdom holds that China＇s contemporary art can be divided into four periods - the first being the post-＂cultural revolution＂ period of 1976-1984, the second lasting from 1985 to 1989, the third from 1990 to 1999, and the fourth from 1999 to the present.     

Intercity Information

Beijing Beijing has a history of 3,000 years.Its scenic grandeurembraces the Forbidden City(Palace Museum).the largestpalace complex in the world;Tian’anmen Square,the biggestsquare in the world and site of the Mao Zedong MemorialHall;and the Summer Palace in Beijing's northwest suburbs.the world's largest imperial garden.Beijing's most memora-ble feature is undoubtedly the Great Wall,one of the sevenwonders of the world.     

The Battle Against the Novel Coronavirus Requires All Layers of Society

The outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus(2019-nCoV)came at a special time of the year in China,during the Spring Festival,the most important traditional holiday for Chinese.In order to curb the spread of the virus,the Chinese Government and all of Chinese society have mobilized,with the government making overall arrangements for staff and resource distribution,doctors and nurses fighting the outbreak round the clock,and the public being cooperative and helpful.In the time since the outbreak was made public,many people have expressed their views and hopes from different perspectives.     

The Olympic Village

ON the northern end of the north-south central Olympic Green, where the Olympic Village is village will be home to over 16,800 athletes, during the Games. The village logo comprises axis in Beijing is the located. The 163-acre coaches and officials three parts; the phoenix at the top represents the Olympic flame, while the last two characters represent the words ＂Dream World.＂     

Strategic Conception of Peaceful Development

General Secretary Hu Jintao set forth six guidelines for the peaceful development of the relations across the Taiwan Straits at the Forum Marking the 30th Anniversary of the Issuance of the Message to Our Compatriots in Taiwan. The six guidelines constitute a collected, systematic and complete exposition of the framework, prospects, structure, path, motivation, conditions, and internal relations of the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations; the relation between peaceful development and peaceful reunification; and the strategic conception of and tactical require ments for peaceful development, and they put the ongoing progress of the peaceful develop ment of cross-Straits relations on track.     

Xinghai Bay Central Business District

As site of the Central Business District, Xinghai Bay is at the forefront of Dalian’s opening to the outside world.DALIAN is a coastal city on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Northeast China. Of the 30 bays of various sizes that are scattered along its 1,906km coastline, Xinghai Bay has the distinction of being at the heart of the city. As site of the Central Business District, Xinghai Bay is at the forefront of Dalian’s opening to the outside world.     

UN Landmark Convention of Rights of Disabled People——Interview with Zhang Guozhong of the China Federation for Disabled Persons

The 61st UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New York City on December 13,2006. This is the first legally binding international convention on the protection of the rights of disabled persons, the first of its kind in the history of the United Nations. It is also the latest efforts of the international community to protect and promote human rights and development of persons with disabilities. On March 30,2007, China signed the Convention. The following is an interview with Mr. Zhang Guozhong of the International Department of the China Federation for Disabled Persons, who witnessed the whole process of the negotiations on the Convention: