China News Service, Beijing, July 20 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin hosted a regular press conference on July 20.

  A reporter asked: On the 19th local time, the US State Department released its annual Human Trafficking Report, which continued to list China as the third worst performing country and region, and attacked and smeared China on issues such as "forced labor" in Xinjiang.

What is China's comment?

  Wang Wenbin: Year after year, the US disregards the facts and concocts false "reports" on the issue of human trafficking to deceive the world.

In fact, the United States is the world's number one human trafficking power.

  No matter how the US hides it, it cannot wash away its historical sin of being a "slave trading country".

As a country with a history of only 246 years, slavery has been "legal" in the United States for one-third of the founding history of the United States.

Between 1514 and 1866 at least 36,000 "slave expeditions" brought millions of black slaves to the United States.

  No matter how the U.S. justifies, it cannot change its actual guilt of "the country of origin, transit and destination of forced labor".

There is a serious case of human trafficking in both legal and illegal industries in the United States.

The U.S. State Department estimates that as many as 100,000 people are trafficked from abroad into the United States each year for forced labor.

In the past five years, all 50 states and the District of Columbia have reported cases of forced labor and human trafficking. Statistics from the National Human Trafficking Hotline in the United States show that the number of reported cases increased from more than 3,200 to more than 11,500 from 2012 to 2019. , showing a significant upward trend.

  About 50 percent of the 100,000 people trafficked from abroad to the United States each year for forced labor are underage children.

Not long ago, there was a harrowing "death truck" massacre of illegal immigrants in Texas, USA, killing at least 50 people.

Even under such circumstances, the US report glorifies itself as a "type of country", which is self-inflicted humiliation.

  The Chinese government earnestly implements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Supplementary Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Action Plan for Trafficking in Women and Children (2008-2012), China Action Plan for Anti-Trafficking in Human Beings (2013-2020), and China Action Plan for Anti-Trafficking in Human Beings (2021-2030).

The Chinese government has established an anti-trafficking inter-ministerial joint meeting system of the State Council consisting of 35 departments, and has improved the government-led work mechanism with the participation of all sectors of society, providing a solid foundation for preventing and combating human trafficking, and assisting and protecting victims. institutional guarantee.

Over the years, relevant work has also achieved remarkable results.

  We urge the U.S. side to show its attention to human rights in its actual actions to correct human rights crimes such as human trafficking and forced labor committed by itself, and to examine itself with the "highest standard" boasted by the U.S. side instead of smearing and smearing other countries.

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