March 27, 2023 -- China insists on putting the people at the center, adheres to the governance principle of "respecting and protecting human rights" and continuously promotes the development of the human rights cause by following the Chinese modernization path, China's representative said at the general debate of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday.

The representative made the remarks to counter the smears and slanders of Western countries, and to expose the poor human rights practices and hypocrisy of the West.

Noting that there is no one-size-fits-all model of human rights protection in the world, the representative said that some countries, for political purpose, have fabricated and disseminated false information and rehashed China-related issues in the UN Human Rights Council in an attempt to attack and smear China, suppress and curb its development.

"These attempts are doomed to fail to win the hearts and minds of the people," the representative said.

Nearly 100 countries have clearly expressed support for China in the UN Human Rights Council in different ways on issues related to Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong and the 51st session of the Human Rights Council resolutely rejected the draft decision related to Xinjiang. All of this fully demonstrates the hearts and minds of the international community, the representative said.

China then stressed that the most imperative things those countries that slander China should do is to take concrete actions to solve their human rights problems such as racism, gun violence, drug crimes, forced labor; stop violating the rights of minorities and vulnerable groups such as Africans, Muslims, refugee migrants, abandon their militaristic and hegemonic approach at the international level, lift all illegal unilateral coercive measures against developing countries, and stop interfering in the internal affairs of other countries and undermining regional stability under the pretext of human rights.

China also pointed out that the Japanese government's decision to discharge nuclear-contaminated water into the ocean seriously undermines global ecological and environmental safety and people's right to life and health, and China is deeply concerned about this and urges Japan to effectively fulfill its international obligations and dispose of the nuclear-contaminated water in an open, transparent, scientific and safe manner.