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June 1, 2017
 
China attended the first Asia-Europe meeting for women’s economic empowerment held in Vilnius, Lithuania from May 24th to May 26th. Delegations from over 30 ASEM members and international organizations attended the meeting. 
 
June 1, 2017
 
China was ranked as the best developing country for children in Asia, with its children experiencing the safest and happiest childhoods, according to a report released on Thursday, International Children Day.
 
June 2, 2017
 
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled "Human Rights in Xinjiang - Development and Progress" on Thursday.
 
June 2, 2017
 
The International Children's Day falls on Thursday this year. President Xi Jinping has paid much attention and given loving care to the healthy growth of children. Following are remarks made by Xi around International Children's Day over the past years.
 
June 2, 2017
 
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang, who is also head of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, presides over a plenary meeting of the group in Beijing, capital of China, June 1, 2017. 
 
June 3, 2017
 
The Chinese government has called for strict regulations to ensure the fairness of the national college entrance exams, known as Gaokao, due to take place early June.
 
June 3, 2017
 
A system to connect courts and other authorities to better protect children from serious harm is expected to be expanded across the country, China's top court said on Thursday.
 
June 6, 2017
 
Beijing is determined to improve public services, including dealing with parking difficulties in hutong, Cai Qi, the city's Party chief, said on Saturday during his first public activity since being appointed to the post.
 
June 7, 2017
 
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday opened its 35th regular session at its headquarters here, stressing that a "constructive atmosphere" was crucial for the smooth functioning of the council and made it possible to have a frank dialogue with dignity.
 
June 7, 2017
 
The newly issued women and children development plans (2016-2020) in Tibet will pay special attention to women and children in remote and poverty-stricken areas, said Liu Xuan, deputy director of Tibet’s Working Committee on Women and Children.
 
June 8, 2017
 
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli delivers a speech at the opening of the Eighth Clean Energy Ministerial and the Second Mission Innovation Ministerial in Beijing, capital of China, June 7, 2017. 
 
June 9, 2017
 
China's top judge has called for strengthening international judicial assistance to better protect the rights and interests of the parties involved and shoulder due responsibilities as a major country.
 
June 9, 2017
 
Beijing adopted various measures in 2016 to keep improving its air quality and overfulfilled last year's emission reduction task.
 
June 9, 2017
 
Qiangba Puncog, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People`s Congress and chairman of China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS), attends the Seminar on Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance held in Nankai University and delivers a speech. 
 
June 9, 2017
 
Cui Yuying, vice minister of the State Council Information Office and vice chairman of China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS), attends the Seminar on Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance held in Tianjin and delivers a keynote speech. 
 
June 12, 2017
 
China's Ministry of Culture has issued a plan calling for targeted poverty alleviation in the cultural field during 2016-2020.
 
The plan, for the 13th Five-Year Plan period, comes as the country aims to create a moderately prosperous society by 2020, with a key goal to eradicate poverty.
 
June 12, 2017
 
China on Sunday launched a week-long campaign to raise awareness of energy efficiency and promote green lifestyles.The campaign, known as National Energy Efficiency Promotion Week, aims to push ecological civilization, resource conservation and recycling, and green and low-carbon development, said a government statement.
 
June 12, 2017
 
Performers perform a traditional opera during the 6th international intangible cultural heritage festival held in Chengdu, capital of southwest China`s Sichuan Province, June 10, 2017. China celebrated its first Cultural and Natural Heritage Day on Saturday. 
 
June 13, 2017
 
Chinese women in the workforce now care about gender equality, and balance between family and life more than ever before. Reports indicate that as incomes grow and China's middle class expands, more and more women tend to care about family and work equally.
 
June 14,2017 
 
The seminar on “Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance”, co-sponsored by China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and the Publicity Department of Tianjin and organized by Human Rights Research Center of Nankai University, was held on June 8th in Tianjin.
 
In the era of globalization, the interdependence of all countries is increasing despite their diversified interests. Therefore, global governance is urgently needed for the world,” said Professor Chang Jian, director of Human Rights Research Center of Nankai University.
 
June 14, 2017
 
The Seminar on Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance was held in Nankai University, Tianjin on June 8th. It was co-sponsored by China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and the Publicity Department of Tianjin and organized by Nankai University. Zheng Ge, professor of Koguan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and researcher of the CSHRS, attended the seminar and delivered a speech on From the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence to Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind.
 
June 14, 2017
 
The Seminar on Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind and Global Human Rights Governance was held in Nankai University, Tianjin on June 8th. It was co-sponsored by China Society for Human Rights Studies and the Publicity Department of Tianjin and organized by Nankai University. During the seminar, Liu Huawen, executive director and researcher of the Research Center for Human Rights, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences put forward that the socialism human rights theory with Chinese characteristics has achieved great breakthroughs. 
 
June 16, 2017
 
The head of the Chinese Mission to UN at Geneva Ma Zhaoxu attends the International Seminar on Human Rights and Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind in Geneva, Switzerland, June 14, 2017. Ma Zhaoxu on Wednesday said countries should work together to build a community of shared future for mankind to promote the international human rights cause.
 
June 19, 2017
 
The guideline, released by the State Council, China's cabinet, included 20 key tasks concerning the increasing elderly population, such as establishing an electronic database of their health conditions, providing a pension for poor or disabled seniors, increasing access to educational resources, and setting up a long-term care insurance system.
 
June 19, 2017
 
Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong speaks during the China-Hungary Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) education activities in Budapest, the capital of Hungary on June 18, 2017
 
June 21, 2017
 
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and the Department of Justice of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) signed here on Tuesday an arrangement on reciprocal recognition and enforcement of civil judgments in matrimonial and family cases, marking a new milestone in promoting mutual legal assistance between the two places.
 
June 21, 2017
 
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses a news conference on the occasion of World Refugee Day, at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 20, 2017. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, hours before flying to Uganda to show solidarity with refugees there, marked World Refugee Day on Tuesday with pleas for acceptance of the world`s 65.5 million refugees and expressing hope they would integrate into their host societies. 
 
June 22, 2017
 
China launches 5-year program to reduce children's injuries. The program was initiated by the Center for the Prevention and Control of Noninfectious and Chronic Disease of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and supported by the National Working Committee on Children and Women and the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
 
June 22, 2017
 
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense James Mattis attend a press briefing after the U.S.-China Diplomatic and Security Dialogue in Washington D.C., the United States, on June 21, 2017. China and the United States began their first diplomatic and security dialogue on Wednesday at the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C. 
 
June 23, 2017
 
President Xi Jinping said more should be done to end poverty and improve the standard of living in revolutionary base areas.
 
Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, made the remarks during a tour Wednesday of Lyuliang and Xinzhou, two revolutionary base areas in Shanxi Province.
 
June 26, 2017
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on enhanced efforts and precise measures to eradicate extreme poverty.
 
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks when presiding over a symposium on poverty relief Friday in northern China's Shanxi Province.
 
June 26, 2017
 
The 35th session of the UN Human Rights Councils opens in Geneva on June 6, 2017. Chinese delegation, together with the representatives of 47 member countries, observer countries and NGOs, attended the meeting.
 
June 27, 2017
 
Maintaining a steady upward trend over the second quarter, the world's second-largest economy has shown noticeable achievements in structural reform, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday. Li made the remarks when addressing the opening ceremony of the Summer Davos Forum in Dalian in Northeast China's Liaoning province.
 
June 27, 2017
 
In the past five year, China has dealt with 724,000 drug-related cases, arrested 534,000 suspects and seized 370 tonnes of drugs in various forms, according to the country's drug control office Monday.
 
June 27, 2017
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by Leung Chun-ying, chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, visits an exhibition profiling the achievements made in Hong Kong since its return to the motherland in 1997 in Beijing, capital of China, June 26, 2017.
 
June 28, 2017
 
China on Tuesday released a regulation on exclusion of illegally-obtained evidence in criminal cases, banning confessions by torture and forced self-incrimination. The document was jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court (SPC), the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of State Security, and the Ministry of Justice, in a bid to curb wrongful convictions and safeguard human rights.
 
June 29, 2017
 
The 24th China-UK Dialogue on Human Rights was held in Beijing from June 27 to 28.
 
Liu Hua, Special Representative for Human Rights Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Kevin White, director general for Asia and the Pacific Affairs at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, co-chaired the event.
 
June 29, 2017
 
The evidence system should be improved comprehensively to establish a unified, practical and digitalized evidence standard, and then we should develop a user-friendly evidence standard software that is suitable for departments of public security, procuratorate and court. By doing so, justice arbitrariness will be fended off, said Shen Deyong, executive vice-president of the Supreme People's Court (SPC).
 
June 29, 2017
 
China has launched a multidepartmental effort to deal with occasional shortages of some prescription drugs for patients, the State Council Information Office said on Wednesday.
 
June 29, 2017
 
Vehicles run under Chinese national flags and flags of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Tsim Sha Tsui of Hong Kong, south China, June 27, 2017. July 1, 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong`s return to the motherland.
 
June 30, 2017
 
"Hong Kong's development has always pulled at my heartstrings," Chinese President Xi Jinping said here Thursday, just two days ahead of the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. "I'm pleased to have set foot in Hong Kong once again after nine years," Xi said on his first trip to the Asian financial hub as China's top leader.
 
June 30, 2017
 
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang on Thursday urged local governments, enterprises and the public to work together to ensure food safety. The vice premier said governments should improve efficiency of supervision with unified and professional action and food suppliers should ensure farm-to-table product quality.
 
June 30, 2017
 
China will continue to firmly implement the principle of "one country, two systems" in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) and support the Hong Kong SAR in making its advantages to achieve greater development, a Chinese ambassador has said.
 
June 30, 2017
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping Thursday afternoon attended a signing ceremony for cooperation agreement on the development of the Hong Kong Palace Museum.The mainland and the Hong Hong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) will carry out cooperation in areas including relic display, personnel training and people-to-people exchange, according to the agreement.
 
June 30, 2017
 
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Leung Chun-ying, in Hong Kong, south China, June 29, 2017.