Experts hail China's achievements in legal protection of human rights

A seminar on China's law-based governance and human rights protection was held on Friday in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province.

Experts and scholars attending the seminar summarized their experience in the construction of legal protection of human rights in the new era and discussed the contribution of the legal system of socialist human rights protection with Chinese characteristics in enriching and developing the diversity of human civilization.

Xie Fuzhan, chairman of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development, said China regards respecting and protecting human rights as an important task in governing the country and has successfully embarked on a human rights development path that suits China's national conditions and the trend of the times.

"We have made great achievements in the cause of human rights, and the people's sense of happiness and security have been significantly enhanced," Xie said.

He said that while promoting the development of its own human rights cause and improving the level of legal protection of human rights, China also actively participates in the construction of the international human rights legal system and promotes the improvement of global human rights governance.

The seminar, using typical cases and detailed data from different perspectives and fields, vividly demonstrated China's great achievements in protecting human rights and advancing the rule of law, said Zuo Feng, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Foundation for Human Rights Development.

Liu Xinsheng, a human rights expert with the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, said China comprehensively advancing the rule of law has injected new energy into the cause of international human rights protection.

The participating experts and scholars also discussed current issues such as using the rule of law to improve the well-being of people's livelihoods, legal protection of human rights in emerging fields and the building of foreign-related rules of law.