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Prioritizing human rights helps China defeat COVID-19: experts
China prioritized human rights amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring people’s lives and health in a people-centric approach, and therefore achieved the results of quickly taking the epidemic under control, experts stressed in an international conference entitled “Guarantee of the Right to Life in Epidemic Prevention and Control” held at Southwest University of Political Science and Law on May 9.
More than 40 experts and scholars from China, the Netherlands, France, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka attended the meeting to exchange their standpoints around human rights values during the pandemic.
By: Global Times
CPC seeks happiness for the people wholeheartedly: Xi
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has been seeking happiness for the Chinese people wholeheartedly, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said in his chat with villagers during an inspection tour in Shanxi Province.
Xi came to the Fangcheng new village in Xiping Township of Datong City, Shanxi, on May 11, visiting Bai Gaoshan and his family.
By: Xinhua
Xi extends best wishes to nation's nurses
President Xi Jinping encouraged the country's nurses on May 11 to make new contributions to promote the building of the Healthy China initiative and maintain the security of global public health.
In greetings sent to nurses across the country ahead of International Nurses Day on May 12, Xi complimented the nurses for their brave fight against the novel coronavirus disease both in China and overseas.
By: China Daily
Xi replies to letter from Pakistani students studying in Beijing
Chinese President Xi Jinping extended welcome to excellent youth from all countries in the world to study in China in his reply to a letter from all Pakistani students studying in the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) on May 17.
In his letter, Xi encouraged the students to communicate more with their Chinese peers and join hands with youth from all countries to contribute to promoting people-to-people connectivity and building a community with a shared future for humanity.
By: Xinhua
Chinese courts strengthen protection of juveniles
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) on May 18 pledged strict punishments for crimes violating juveniles' rights to ensure justice is upheld.
Stressing that Chinese courts always strictly crack down on offenses involving minors, the SPC said the courts handled 28,975 criminal cases involving harm against juveniles including child trafficking and molestation, and punished 29,787 offenders in such cases from 2013 to 2019.
By: Xinhua
Webinar on human rights protection amid COVID-19 held
A human rights webinar on international cooperation in fighting the COVID-19 and building a community with a shared future was held on May 18th. The teleconference was sponsored by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and organized by the Institute for Human Rights, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL). Around 30 experts and officials from China, Sweden, France and Australia joined the virtual event.
By: en.humanrights.cn
China’s top political advisory body to hold annual session from May 21 to 27
The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top political advisory body, will open its annual session on May 21 in Beijing, a spokesperson said on May 20.
The session is set to conclude on May 27, Guo Weimin, spokesperson for the third session of the 13th National Committee of the CPPCC, told a press conference.
Amid regular measures to prevent and control COVID-19, this year's session will be shorter than previously planned.
By: Xinhua
Over 1 mln pieces of advice solicited during civil code compilation: spokesperson
A total of 1.02 million pieces of advice had been solicited from around 425,000 people during the compilation process of China's civil code, a spokesperson for the annual session of the national legislature said on May 21.
The 1,260-article draft civil code will be submitted to the third session of the 13th National People's Congress for deliberation, spokesperson Zhang Yesui told a press conference.
By: Xinhua
China moves closer to civil code
China's national legislature will deliberate a massive bill when its annual session opens on May 22, moving closer to having a civil code for the people's republic.
An 84-chapter, 1,260-article draft was put together in December after different parts of it were reviewed, including the general provisions and six parts on property, contracts, personality rights, marriage and family, inheritance and torts liability.
By: Xinhua
China firm on achieving development goals of 2020, though setting no specific growth target
China will work to ensure achieving the development goals of winning the battle against poverty and completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects this year, though setting no specific economic growth target for 2020, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
By: Xinhua
China’s national legislature to hold annual session from May 22 to 28
China's national legislature will open its annual session on May 22 in Beijing, a spokesperson said on May 21.
The third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) is scheduled to conclude on May 28, with nine items on its agenda, Zhang Yesui, spokesperson for the session, told a press conference.
By: Xinhua
China to increase basic pension for retirees
China will increase the basic pension for retirees and the minimum basic old-age pension for rural and non-working urban residents, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
China will ensure the payments of pension fund on time and in full to nearly 300 million people, the report said.
By: Xinhua
China to enhance financial support to ensure employment
China's central government will set aside 53.9 billion yuan (about 7.6 billion U.S. dollars) of employment subsidies this year amid efforts to ensure employment, according to a draft budget report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
The government will do all it can to stabilize and expand employment as it is a top priority of the government work, said the report.
By: Xinhua
China aims to add over 9 mln new urban jobs in 2020
China will prioritize stabilizing employment and ensuring people's livelihood this year, aiming to create more than 9 million new urban jobs, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
The surveyed urban unemployment rate will be kept at around 6 percent, said the report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the opening meeting of the annual national legislative session.
By: Xinhua
China to ensure food supply for 1.4 bln people through own efforts
It is imperative and well within China's ability to ensure the food supply for 1.4 billion Chinese people through the country's own efforts, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
To bolster agricultural production, the country will increase its area of high-standard cropland by 80 million mu (5.33 million hectares), the report said.
By: Xinhua
China to strengthen public health system development
China will strengthen the development of the public health system, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
The report stressed improving the direct-reporting and early warning systems for infectious diseases, increasing spending on vaccines, drugs and fast testing technologies, increasing mobile labs and strengthening the supply of emergency materials, among others.
By: Xinhua
China to ensure eliminating rural poverty in 2020
China will ensure the elimination of poverty among all rural residents living below the current poverty line and in all poor counties this year, according to a government work report submitted to the national legislature for deliberation on May 22.
By: Xinhua
Intl discussion on protection for vulnerable groups urges more attention
The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the world's human rights protection as the socioeconomic effects have impacted vulnerable and marginalized groups. Global experts and NGO's representatives on human rights protection urged policymakers to grant favorable measures that would benefit vulnerable groups and protect their rights during an online conference on May 23.
Over 20 experts and delegates from China, Japan, UK, Norway, Sweden attended the virtual conference, launched by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and Institute for Human Rights Studies at Wuhan University. The event was aimed to provide a platform where they could exchange ideas on providing care facilities for vulnerable groups who have had a more difficult time fighting COVID-19, including the elderly, disabled, and migrant workers.
By: Global Times
China to enhance public health system to better protect people’s lives
China will step up efforts in building a stronger protection network in the public health domain to better protect people's lives and health as the country is shifting to COVID-19 regular prevention and control.
On May 24, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed fortifying the public health protection network as he was participating in a deliberation at the annual national legislative session with lawmakers from central China's Hubei Province, recently hard-hit by the epidemic.
By: Xinhua
Xi orders fortifying public health protection network
President Xi Jinping stressed fortifying the public health protection network when participating in a deliberation at the annual national legislative session.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on May 24 when joining in discussions with lawmakers from central China's Hubei Province.
By: Xinhua
China to prioritize legislation on public health in 2020
China's top legislature said on May 25 that it will prioritize legislation on public health this year.
In its annual work report, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) said it plans to revise the Wildlife Protection Law, the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, and the Emergency Response Law in 2020.
By: Xinhua
China issues guidelines on disabled people’s wellbeing amid COVID-19 control
Chinese authorities have issued guidelines on guaranteeing the basic wellbeing of disabled people amid normalized COVID-19 prevention and control, the China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) said on May 25.
Jointly issued by the CDPF, the Ministry of Finance and three other authorities, the guidelines include specific requirements for guaranteeing disabled people's basic livelihood and employment, as well as helping to lift the economically disadvantaged out of poverty.
By: Xinhua
China adopts milestone Civil Code
China's top legislature on May 28 voted to adopt the country's long-expected Civil Code, a milestone legislation that will better protect people's rights and offer strong legal support for the country's development.
The Civil Code passed at the third session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) will take effect on Jan. 1, 2021.
By: Xinhua
China adopts decision to make Hong Kong national security laws
China is set to make Hong Kong national security laws as a related decision was adopted at the national legislature on May 28.
The decision will also allow the central government's national security organs to set up agencies in Hong Kong when needed.
Deputies to the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) voted overwhelmingly to approve the decision at the closing meeting of the NPC annual session.
By: Xinhua
Global experts call for human consolidation, denouncing US's anti-China remarks amid pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is an opportunity to promote solidarity and to stop politicizing the virus, said worldwide law and human rights experts during a livestreaming conference focused on comparing human rights in China and the Western countries amid virus prevention efforts.
Over 40 professionals from UN Human Rights, Austria, the Netherlands, the UK, Pakistan, Nepal, and China joined together to discuss how to avoid the coronavirus crisis becoming a human rights crisis at the conference held in Institute for Human Rights Law, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan on May 30.
By: Global Times
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