China News Service, Beijing, May 19 (Reporter Yang Chengchen) "Where are the differences between China and Western human rights concepts? How to enhance communication and exchanges between Chinese and Western human rights concepts?" The Symposium on Human Rights Development Path”, invited seven well-known Chinese and foreign experts and scholars to conduct in-depth discussions on related topics.
On May 19, China News Service held the "Symposium on the Development of Human Rights in China" in Beijing, inviting seven well-known Chinese and foreign experts and scholars to conduct in-depth discussions on related topics.
The picture shows the rostrum at the venue of the "Symposium on the Development Path of Human Rights in China".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
With the development of society, human rights have been paid more and more attention by people all over the world. Freedom, equality, anti-discrimination, and protection of their own interests have become the basic demands of people.
China's human rights development in recent years has made achievements known to the world. How to better interpret China's human rights concept and China's human rights development path to the world, promote mutual learning between Chinese and Western human rights concepts, and jointly better participate in and promote global human rights governance , has become a real problem that needs to be answered urgently.
In his speech at the seminar, Chen Junjun, president of China News Service, said that the world today is in the process of great changes, and various challenges and questions need to be reinterpreted and answered urgently.
Among them, human rights have increasingly become the focus of attention of the international community, and the human rights theories and practices of different countries are showing different results, which also provides a good opportunity and impetus for the development of human rights theories in the world.
As a media dedicated to building a bridge of communication and understanding in the world and promoting exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and Western civilizations, China News Agency is willing to provide a platform for people of insight at home and abroad to disseminate the insights of experts and scholars to the world, and jointly promote the development and progress of human rights in China and the world. .
On May 19, China News Service held the "Symposium on the Development of Human Rights in China" in Beijing, inviting seven well-known Chinese and foreign experts and scholars to conduct in-depth discussions on related topics.
The picture shows experts and scholars from China, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and other countries participating in the conference online.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
In his speech, Lu Guangjin, secretary-general of the China Society for Human Rights Studies and a professor at the Law School of Jilin University, said that in just a few decades, China has historically solved the problem of absolute poverty and guaranteed the basic rights of the people.
The historic achievements in the development of China's human rights cause have proved the scientific and rationality of China's human rights development path.
Zhang Yonghe, executive dean and professor of the Institute of Human Rights at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, pointed out that without the right to survival and development, other rights are nothing without roots.
The theory and practice of human rights in China is a model for combining the universal principle of human rights with China's reality.
Wang Wen, Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China, believes that China's human rights progress is a new breakthrough in the practice and realization of the world's human rights theory.
China's progress in human rights has expanded the inherent development path of human rights in the world since the 20th century, and has become the most steadfast major power in support of the UN Human Rights Council, providing new options for developing countries to resume the path of human rights promotion.
Regarding the concerns of some Western countries about human rights issues in China's Xinjiang, Zuliati Simayi, vice president of Xinjiang University and dean of the School of Marxism, said, "I grew up in Xinjiang since I was a child, and I have seen with my own eyes that all ethnic groups have a good life because of labor. A vivid picture of life. This is a voluntary process of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, a process of obtaining practical guarantees from the government, a process of decent work and a happy life, and there is no so-called 'forced labor' at all." She pointed out that people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are living in Decent work under the sun, every drop of their sweat and every contribution should be respected, valued and rewarded.
On May 19, China News Service held the "Symposium on the Development of Human Rights in China" in Beijing, inviting seven well-known Chinese and foreign experts and scholars to conduct in-depth discussions on related topics.
The picture shows the offline venue of the "Symposium on the Development Path of Human Rights in China".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng
Michael Borchmann, a German expert on China and former director of the European and International Affairs Department of the German state of Hesse, quoted former German Chancellor Schmidt as saying that the Western concept of human rights is a product of Western history.
"As a German, influenced by the traditions of the French Revolution and the Enlightenment, I will defend human rights in my own country. But I will never force other countries with different traditions to accept the Western concept of human rights."
John Ross, former director of the Economic and Business Policy Office of the City of London, and senior researcher at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, said that the more the world understands China's extraordinary achievements in the field of human rights, the more it hopes that the country's human rights situation will improve. The more they can get the same level of attention and promotion, the more they understand and recognize China.
Harro von Senger, a well-known sinologist in Europe and an expert on Chinese law at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, pointed out that more than 2,000 years ago, a Chinese philosopher said, "If you know the truth, you will know the etiquette."
The right to development and economic, social and cultural rights are very important, and the concept of human rights that only revolves around individuals is narrow.
In fact, China and the West have consensus on many human rights issues, and the consensus far outweighs the differences.
(Finish)