Return to Human Orientation: Route for China to Secure Human Rights in 21st Century

The 30 years of reform and opening up in China have given birth to fast economic development, the everchanging look of the society and great     

从抽象的"知识人"到"现实的人"——对西方社会科学的文化反思

“文化自觉”由己故著名社会学家费孝通先生提出,长期以来一直都是学界关注的理论热点。一个民族的文化是这个民族的灵魂。如果一个民族失去了自己的文化,那么就会丧失自己的精神存在。如何做到既认识自己的文化,也能够认识其他的文化?尤其是在当今世界多元文化碰撞的情况下,如何以马克思主义为指导,来践行文化自觉?本刊专此发表4位学者的文章,并欢迎广大读者踊跃参与讨论。——主持人任建英     

Human Rights: Signal of Human Beings from Necessity to Freedom

正The issue of human rights is one of the essential issues in modern political life and state life.The term"human rights",as it is so called,refers to the rights of human beings dealing with the questions arising during the process of human beings from necessity to freedom.The key to master the concept of human rights is how to define the rights.In ac-     

司法是人权的有力保障

The draft of the human genome sequence was released in 2001, an im- portant milestone in the process of acquiring genetic infor- mation on human beings. Together with the Manhattan Project and the Apollo Program, the ambitious Human Genome Project is known as one of the three great projects in the history of human science. Differing from the former two projects, which focused on the atomic bomb and explora- tion of outer space, respectively, the Human Genome Project focused on human beings. This is a great shift. Thanks to progress in biotechnology and medical technology, people real- ized the prospect of greatly expanding life expectancy to more than 55 years in the second half of the 20th Century.     

A Tribute to The Human Spirit

正Online photography exhibition documents unforgettable moments in the global fight against the pandemicFor Duan Wei and his colleagues at China Pictorial magazine, June 29 is a special day. On that day, a collection of photographs they took when they spent 64 days in Wuhan, central China, was displayed online as part of a global photographic exhibition, Zooming in     

Scientific Approach to Development and Human Rights

The Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in October 2003 put forward a scientific approach of people-centered, all-round, coordinated and sustainable development and made it a strategy for governing the country, putting it in command of all economic and social development. Since reform and opening up in 1978, China has persisted in the central task of economic development and put development in the first place. The evolution of the concept "development is the     

China Elected to UN Human Rights Council

<正>China was elected on Nov.12,2013 at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly(UNGA)in New York to the UN Human Rights Council for a three-year term from 2014 to 2016.Wang Min,deputy permanent representative of the People’s Republic of China to the UN,said after the election,"The Chinese government attaches great importance to the promotion and protection of human rights.It has made remarkable achievements and has vigorously developed inter-     

Strengthening Legal Supervision to Promote Human Rights Protection

<正>According to China’s Constitution and laws,the duty of procuratorate departments is not simply prosecuting criminals and procura-torates are not simply departments for public prosecution.Essentially,they are the legal supervision de-partments of the state.In order to implement the constitutional prin-ciple of"respecting and protecting human rights,"procuratorate de-partments fulfill their duty of legal supervision in various sectors such as investigation,arrest ratification and prosecution to protect citizens’legal rights and interests.In recent years,procuratorate departments na-     

Action Plan to Promote Human Rights in China

The State Council information Office unveiled the national human Rights action Plan (2012-2015) (hereinafter referred to as the action Plan) on June 11, drawing wide attention, both domestically and internationally. Wang Chen, minister of the State Council information Office, answered questions concerning China’s formulation of the action Plan in an exclusive interview with the Xinhua news agency. The following is the translated version of the full text of the interview:Xinhua: The Chinese government introduced the     

For Better Procuratorial Work to Protect Human Rights

The Chinese Constitution calls for respecting and protecting human rights. And accordingly, people＇s procuratorates across the country take judicial protection of human rights as their primary task. They are contributing to the development of China＇s human rights cause by getting involved in cracking down on crimes in violation of human rights while seeking to improve their own work.     

China to Formulate First Human Rights Action Plan

Nearly a century ago, in 1913, the Mongolian-Tibetan School, forerunner of the Middle School Affiliated to the Central University for Nationalities, was established in Beijing. This testifies to the fact that, even in the days of Northern Warlords Government, the Chinese government pursued an educational policy embodying the historical notion that all ethnic groups are entailed to equal educational opportunities and should live harmoniously in the great family of China.     

Contemporary China's Human Rights Development to the World

<正>On January 18,2017,General Secretary Xi Jinping,speaking at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva,said that China always prioritizes people’s rights,and continuously promotes and protects human rights according to its national conditions.It has solved the subsistence problems of more than 1.3 billion people,and lifted 700     

China's Shenzhou-12 Mission Contributes Further to Human Space Exploration

C HINA on June 17 success-fully launched the Shenzhou-12 manned spaceship,ushering in a new era for humanity's exploration of space. The crew,consisting of Nie Hai-sheng,Liu Boming,and Tang Hongbo,has entered the space station core mod-ule Tianhe after it was docked with the spaceship.They will remain in orbit for three months. The mission will help test technologies related to long-term astronaut stays and health care,the recycling and life support system,the supply of space materials,extravehicular activities and operations,and in-orbit maintenance.     

System Ethics:New Approach to Guarantee Human Rights

Respect for and protection of human rights is an issue of common concern nowadays. In 2004,China added The state respects and protects human rights to Article 33 of its Constitution in the form of amendment. Incorporation of human rights into the Constitution not only eliminates all kinds of concerns in notions     

Driving Force to Socialize the International Norms of Human Rights

Human rights,as a great term and lofty goal, have unquestionably become a topic of mainstream talk in the present-day world. 2 Such mainstream talk has been internalized into part of the social structure. The current international society is experiencing a profound reorganization and transition in values. all kinds of new interactions under the context of globalization have resulted in the development of the current norms of international human rights,     

劳动对人提升作用的现代解读

人的发展不仅是要完成从猿到人的转变,更重要的是使人真正成为人。劳动把人从动物界提升出来,迈出了使人真正成为人的第一步。但现代人却游离于所谓的劳动与真正的劳动之间,出现了偏离真正劳动的倾向,并让所谓的劳动遮蔽自己的本性,这将成为人类发展中的障碍。因此,有必要从本体论、认识论和价值论三个层面探讨劳动的持续效力发挥的现代性要求。     

Chinese, Uzbek Institutions Agree to Human Rights Cooperation

The China Society for Human Rights Studies and the National Human Rights Center of Uzbekistan signed a mem- orandum of understanding （MOU） over cooperation on human rights on September 13, 2013.     

Measures to Improve China’s Human Rights Protection

Historically,the Constitution of 1982 is the most complete constitution since the establishment of the PRC.However,the country has faced new situations with the advance of time.The Constitution has needed to be amended in order to keep pace with the times,so there have appeared four constitutional amendments in 1988,1993,1999 and 2004,respectively.Although the four     

中国宪法人权保障探讨

宪法的内在精神是保障人权。中国宪法2004年修正案确立了国家尊重和保障人权,这是中国人权史上具有里程碑意义的大事。然而,冷静地思考发现,宪法2004年修正案在许多相关制度的配套方面仍有缺失。     

History of the PRC's Participation in International Human Rights Affairs and Its Contribution to the Cause of International Human Rights

The history of the participation of People's republic of china in international human rights affairs can be mainly divided into two phases since its founding 70 years ago, and it can be further divided into four stages with typical events after the launch of reform and opening-up.Since the adoption and implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970 s china has witnessed the active participation and fruitful achievements of china in bilateral and multilateral human rights cooperation and communication, as well as making important contributions to the international human rights cause.