UN body wraps up 52nd session with a clutch of human rights resolutions

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on April 4 concluded its 52nd session, after adopting 43 resolutions on issues including the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, and mental health.

Other resolutions addressed the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment, promotion and protection of human rights, and the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The Council also adopted resolutions on the right to food, the promotion of the enjoyment of cultural rights and respect for cultural diversity, the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action.

From: Xinhua

Chinese doctors treat 290m patients in foreign aid over six decades

China has dispatched medical teams totaling 30,000 members to 76 countries and regions over the past six decades, providing 290 million diagnoses and treatments for local people, according to a symposium held in Beijing on April 6.

Currently, Chinese medical teams work at 115 sites in 56 countries, nearly half of which are in remote areas with harsh conditions, said the international symposium marking the 60th anniversary of dispatching the first China Medical Team to Africa.

From: Xinhua

People related to chained mother of eight sentenced

Dong Zhimin, the husband in a high-profile case of a woman being trafficked, tortured and giving birth to eight children, was sentenced to 9 years for abuse and illegal detention, announced the Xuzhou Intermediate People's Court in East China's Jiangsu province on April 7.

Five other people, named Shi Lizhong, Sang Heniu, Tan Aiqing, Huo Yongqu, and Huo Fude, were sentenced for 8 to 13 years for kidnapping and trafficking women.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

China Focus: China committed to achieving health for all

As this year's World Health Day falls on April 7 under the theme of "Health for All," China has been sparing no efforts in achieving that goal.

Over the past decades, the world has witnessed China's accomplishments in building a healthy China. Average life expectancy, a key gauge of the health level of a country's residents, has increased from 35 years in 1949 to 78.2 years in 2021 in China. Its basic medical insurance covers over 1.3 billion people. Severe infectious diseases, including smallpox, polio, and malaria, were eradicated in the country.

In the meantime, China has been sharing its public health successes with the globe, staying true to the initiative of building a global community of health for all.

From: Xinhua

China's Tibet basically builds all-inclusive Tibetan medicine service system

Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region has basically established a Tibetan medicine service system that covers the whole region, said the regional health commission on April 8.

Tibetan medicine services can now be provided by all the region's community health service centers, 94.4 percent of its township hospitals and 42.4 percent of its village clinics.

From: Xinhua

China issues new COVID-19 vaccination plan to further curb risks

China's National Health Commission on April 10 unveiled the latest plan for COVID-19 vaccination, which aims to raise the immunity levels of certain groups and further reduce the risks of severe infection and death from the virus.

The plan was issued by the State Council joint COVID-19 prevention and control mechanism. It targets those aged between three and 17 who have not been infected with the novel coronavirus and have not been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, adults who have not been infected and have not received booster shots, and people who have been infected but have not been fully vaccinated.

From: CGTN

Chinese vice premier stresses spring agricultural production, rural healthcare system construction

Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has urged advancing spring agricultural production and strengthening rural medical and healthcare services to ensure national food security and people's health to bolster the sustained economic recovery.

Liu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour in east Chinese provinces of Anhui and Zhejiang from April 9 to April 11.

From: Xinhua

Over 170,000 people in China's Gansu relocated to safer regions

More than 170,000 people in northwest China's Gansu Province have moved out of areas prone to geological disasters since a relocation project started in 2022, the provincial government said on April 10.

Gansu is one of the most ecologically fragile regions in China. Highly ecologically sensitive areas account for 12.14 percent of the province's total land area, while areas prone to geological disasters account for more than half of the total.

From: Xinhua

China to ship climate change aids to developing nations

China will soon ship a series of aids to three developing nations to help beef up their capabilities to cope with climate change, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

In moves to implement its plan to ramp up South-South Cooperation on climate change, China will provide 5,000 sets of solar power generation systems for household use and 300 metric tons of cement for seawall construction for the Pacific island nation of Kiribati, the ministry said in a media release on April 11.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

Experts discuss diabetes prevention at event

Health experts, diabetes patients and industry insiders said on April 11 promoting healthy lifestyles, training grassroots doctors on tailoring insulin therapies and developing novel and more affordable medicines are some of the key tasks to tackle diabetes in China.

China has an estimated 141 million adults living with diabetes, accounting for one-fourth of all people living with the disease worldwide according to data released by the International Diabetes Federation in 2021.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

Specifications released for minors' social work

The Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League issued specifications for minors' justice social work services on April 14, aiming to protect the rights and interests of juvenile victims as well as offenders.

From: China Daily

China's State Council discusses improvement on employment support policies

China's State Council has discussed ways to improve the policies and measures that help stabilize employment, according to a State Council executive meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang on April 14.

The meeting also adopted a draft revision of the regulations on the management of commercial cryptography.

From: Xinhua

Experts hail nation's progress in advancing global human rights

China has made great achievements in protecting human rights, and initiatives proposed by the country will play a pivotal role in the global governance of human rights, experts said at a recent conference.

During the Symposium on the Global Governance of Human Rights and the Role of NGOs, held in Beijing on April 17, scholars and representatives of think tanks and journalists from eight countries discussed the right to development on the human rights agenda of the United Nations, practices of different countries in promoting and protecting the right to development and the experiences of NGOs in promoting and protecting human rights.

The symposium was organized by China NGO Network for International Exchanges.

From: China Daily Global

Schools must do background checks on staff, ministry says

The Ministry of Education has asked schools and universities to conduct mandatory background checks on candidates who work on campuses for sexual crimes before they are hired.

For primary and secondary schools, when they plan to hire staff, they need to submit an application to the local education authorities to check the national teacher management information system whether the candidates have committed sex crimes, said a notice issued by the ministry on April 20.

From: China Daily

China to boost digital healthcare services further

China will transform and upgrade its healthcare sector further in a more digitalized, internet-oriented and smarter fashion, a Chinese health official said at the International Health Industry Forum of Boao Forum for Asia on April 21.

National Health Commission official Tang Yonglin said that China is on its way to delivering on a range of targets and launching a series of campaigns to comprehensively boost digital health services during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).

These targets include cost-efficiently building a support system for digital infrastructure, improving the system of standards for public health information, and advancing Internet Plus Healthcare initiatives, Tang said.

From: Xinhua

Lawmakers discuss rights protection of overseas Chinese

China's State Council has proposed to draft national legislation on the protection of the rights and interests of overseas Chinese in its report submitted to the country's top legislature for review.

Since 2015, 10 provincial-level regions across China, including Guangdong, Fujian, Shanghai and Hubei have introduced regulations on the protection of overseas Chinese who come back to the country, gaining practical experience in promoting national legislation and paving the way to draft a national law in this regard, according to the State Council's report on Chinese nationals overseas.

The report is being discussed at the ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from April 24 to April 26.

From: China Daily

China creates 2.97m new jobs in first quarter

China added 2.97 million new urban jobs nationwide in the first quarter of the year, with surveyed urban unemployment rate at 5.3 percent in March, indicating that the employment situation in the country remains generally stable, according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security on April 24.

As part of efforts to optimize policies and measures to stabilize employment, China will continue to implement favorable employment policies until the end of 2024. It is estimated that the burden for enterprises will be reduced by 180 billion yuan ($26 billion) on average annually, according to the press conference.

From: CGTN

Li urges steps to bolster growth of border regions

Premier Li Qiang has called for stronger steps to bolster the growth of China's border regions, consolidate the outcomes from the poverty alleviation campaign and enable the people and regions to become more prosperous.

Speaking during a three-day fact-finding trip to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and Yunnan province, which started on April 24, Li reiterated the need for the nation to focus on high-quality development and foster a new development pattern.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

Lawmakers discuss revision of barrier-free law draft

The draft law on the construction of a barrier-free environment was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, for a second review on April 24, which aims to get more people with disabilities and the elderly more involved in social activities.

The draft law was submitted to the NPC's Standing Committee for the first review in October.

Some amendments were made after the first review with opinions and suggestions collected from the public. In the past few months, officials from the Constitution and Law Committee also paid visits to places such as Chongqing municipality and Guangdong province to listen to opinions from NPC deputies from all walks of life and representatives of disabled people.

From: China Daily

More than 52,000 college graduates to be hired as teachers in rural areas

China plans to hire 52,300 college graduates this year to work as primary and middle school teachers at under-developed rural areas in central and western regions, a notice said on April 25.

The notice, issued by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Finance, said the special recruitment effort is expected to improve the teaching quality in rural schools and increase the number of teachers in subjects such as physical education, foreign languages, science and art.

The recruitment drive is mainly seeking teachers for schools in once-impoverished regions, counties undergoing the rural vitalization efforts and those inhabited by minority ethnic groups.

From: chinadaily.com.cn

Xi Jinping: China steps up intellectual property rights protection

Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 26 said the country has strengthened the full-chain protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) and continues to improve the innovation and business environment.

Xi made the remarks in a congratulatory letter to a commemorative event marking the 50th anniversary of cooperation between China and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

From: CGTN

China voices strong opposition over Canadian PM's human rights remarks

China has lodged strong dissatisfaction and opposition to the remarks on human rights made by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who on April 28 linked the production of lithium in China to "slave labor" as he discussed Canada's efforts to ramp up production of the metal used in electric vehicle and other batteries.

The spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in Canada on April 29 said that Trudeau's remark is a complete disregard of the facts, saying China has no "slave labor" and "forced labor," which, however, exists in the U.S., Canada and some other Western countries.

From: CGTN

Navy completes its mission to evacuate Chinese from Sudan

The Chinese navy has completed evacuating Chinese people from conflict-torn Sudan, with 940 Chinese citizens departing from the area from April 26 to April 29 in two groups, according to the Defense Ministry.

At the request of some countries, China also evacuated a total of 231 foreign residents together with Chinese nationals.

From: China Daily Global

Diplomats from 14 countries visit Kashi

A covey of foreign diplomats from 14 countries on April 28 concluded a five-day visit to northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, witnessing how people's livelihood and human rights conditions have improved and cultures of ethnic minority groups have been preserved.

The journey began with Kashi, an ancient city in the far west of Xinjiang. It is home to nearly 4.6 million people and 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygur, Han, Tajik and Hui.

From: CGTN