BEIJING (INP): By safeguarding people's rights to subsistence and development and promoting the comprehensive and coordinated development of economic, social and cultural rights as well as the civil and political rights of its citizens, China has advanced the cause of human rights with a holistic approach. It was learnt in a dialogue at a China University of Political Science and Law arranged by the China NGO Network for International Exchanges for a wide range of delegation belonging to different countries.

The senior professors and the experts of subject at the university stated that China is an extempore reference for any nation around the world about how a nation can move forward in the implementation of its human development plans. The example of China is "a key element" in the efforts to improve human resource and development for everybody while the assistance mechanisms for low-income rural populations and undeveloped areas has been improved, and major alleviation policies and financial input has set the pace. The human rights experts at the university briefed that the Chinese government has adopted the follow-up measures to help people relocated from inhospitable areas to places with better economic prospects, by accelerating urbanization of the resettlement sites.

The government has secured the supply of major farm produce, including grain, cotton, edible oil, sugar, meat and dairy products. Under the principle of social security benefits for all eligible, the government is helping those most in need, to build a tightly woven safety net, and to build the necessary institutions, as it works to develop a sustainable multi-tiered social security system that covers the entire population in both urban and rural areas and follows fair and uniform standards.

The state is providing special relief funds on healthcare, education, housing, and employment to people with financial difficulties, in a timely and targeted manner. It is improving financial aid and support for severely impoverished rural residents through higher-quality relief services. The state is providing a tiered and categorized social assistance program and improving the subsistence allowance scheme, said the experts in a beefing.

Besides safeguarding people's rights to subsistence and development, China has promoted the comprehensive and coordinated development of other kinds of human rights, including making sure that people enjoy better education, more stable employment, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable housing, a more beautiful environment and a richer cultural and spiritual life.

China's experience suggests that a path based on the realities of the country itself is the only one that can work well and win the support of its people. They also briefed that during the last years of the reform and opening-up, the Chinese Government has made continuously efforts in the alleviation of poverty—setting up special poverty-relief institutions, determining targeted areas and population, allocating specialized funds, formulating poverty standards and special preferential policies adapted to China’s national conditions, and establishing the policy of poverty alleviation through development.

Speakers agreed that the right to development is crucial to the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. They highly appreciated China's human rights development path and achievements, commended China's achievements in economic development and poverty alleviation as "world miracles," which provided rich experience for other developing countries to realize their development rights.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan-INP