Foundation chairman addresses human rights forum
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Huang Mengfu, Vice Chairman of the 11th CPPCC and Chairman of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, deliveres a speech at the opening ceremony of the 6th Beijing Forum on Human Rights on Sept. 12, 2013. |
Huang Mengfu, Vice Chairman of the 11th CPPCC and Chairman of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the 6th Beijing Forum on Human Rights on Sept. 12, 2013. Here is the full text of the speech:
Honorable Vice Chairman Wan Exiang and President Luo Haocai,
Honorable Minister Cai Mingzhao,
Ladies, gentlemen and friends,
Good morning!
The Sixth Beijing Forum on Human Rights is opened today, which is co-sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundation for Human Rights Development. First, on behalf of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, I would like to express warm congratulations to the opening of the Forum, and heartfelt thanks to the friends who have always cared for and supported for the development and progress of human rights cause of China.
Since the first session of the Forum in 2008, six years have passed. For past six years, human rights experts, scholars, renowned personages and governmental officials from countries in the world have gathered in Beijing once a year, discussing the development of world human rights theories and practice, and offering advices for the promotion of world human rights cause. The Beijing Forum on Human Rights has become an important platform for exploring the models of human rights development, exchanging the experience of human rights protection and envisioning ideal human rights prospects, and the forum is an important platform for the cooperation and exchanges in the field of human rights between China and other countries, and a significant window on the development and progress of human rights cause in China. This session of the Forum is themed with the "constructing an environment for sustainable human rights development", which conforms to the contemporary progressive trend and requirement of human rights development, and will certainly provide theoretical reference and ideaistic inspiration for the new development of world human rights cause.
Ladies, gentlemen and friends,
Since the founding of People's Republic of China in 1949, especially in the recent 30-plus years since the reform and opening up to the outside world in 1978, the human rights cause of China has obtained enormously world-striking achievements, and this is an incontrovertible fact. The status of human rights in China has been so greatly improved just because the Chinese government has started with the particular situation and reality of China, creatively combining the universality of human rights with the particular situation of China, fusing the advanced human rights concept of mankind with the idealistic quintessence of "orientation on people" in traditional Chinese culture, and accordingly choosing a path of human rights development suitable to the economic basis and humanistic environment of China. This is mainly manifested in the following three aspects:
--Accepting the concept of orientation on people, and building economy to guarantee human rights. Orientation on people is an important concept in traditional Chinese culture, the thought that "the people are the very foundation of the country" used to be the basic political conception of outstanding statesmen in ancient China. The Chinese government has inherited the thought of orientation on people in the traditional culture, bringing forward the view of scientific development featuring orientation on the people, and defining its primary development goal as to constantly meet the increasing material and cultural demands of the people. In order to reach this goal, the Chinese government has given its priority to the development of economy, with all its efforts being subject to and serving the good cause of economic construction. With its rapidly growing economy and national power, it has successfully solved the subsistence problems of a large population of more than 1,300 million, its poverty-stricken population has greatly decreased, and the people's rights to subsistence and development have been practically guaranteed in China.
--Accepting the conception of ruling for the people, and improving people's livelihood to promote human rights. Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes that the people are the basis of a state, and the conceptions that "the pivot of politics rests in the attitude of the people" that "those who get the popular support conquer the country" have a deep root in the Chinese civilization. The Chinese government takes the seeking of welfare for the people as its most fundamental political stand, stressing that the development is for the people, the development depends upon the people and the development shall be shared by the people, and demanding its officials at levels to firmly keep in mind their mission and purposes, and firmly build the awareness of wholeheartedly serving the people. In recent years, the livelihood issues concerning the people most, including employment, housing, education, health care and social insurance, which have received unprecedented attention, with investments further increased and effects more obvious. Besides, China has made a considerable progress in the people's livelihood, which involves poverty alleviation development, infrastructure construction and ecological environment protection, and the people's subsistence and living statuses have been fundamentally improved.
--Accepting the conception of harmonious development, and planning the realization of human rights as a whole. Traditional Chinese culture emphasizes that "harmony is valuable", requiring harmony between one individual and the others, individuals and the society, and one country and another. The Chinese government has absorbed this nutrition from the traditional Chinese culture, and taken the building of a socialist harmonious society as its goal, facilitating the more efficient, fairer and more sustainable development of economy, seeking for social fairness and justice, and guaranteeing all the citizens to work and live with dignity. In order to fulfill these objectives, the Chinese government has formulated a series of social policies conforming to the stage of social development of China, taking into consideration various rights as a whole, and fully guaranteeing all people's economic, political, social and cultural rights. From the point of view of history, the Chinese people now have the best status of various basic rights, including of political right, if compared to that in the history.
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