The China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) issued on August 6 the China Human Rights Development Report 2014 (human rights blue book), which is the fourth of its kind in China.

The blue book analyzes the connotation of the Chinese Dream and explained the significance of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The blue book summarizes the general characteristics of China’s human rights development in 2013, pointing out that the Party of the government has continuously enhanced social justice and fairness, increased the welfare of the people, pushed forward coordinated development of the economic, political, social and cultural causes, ensured equal participation and equal development of the people, and made social prosperity benefit the whole people. In special reports, the blue book discussed anti-corruption, the construction of socialist consultative democracy, the reform of re-education through labor, community-based re-education, lawsuits for public interest, rural children left by migrant workers and the construction of ecological civilization. On the 10th anniversary of the introduction of human rights into the Constitution, the blue book provides a brief overview of human rights books published in the Chinese mainland and related reports.

CSHRS, established in 1993, is the largest national academic group for human rights. It also enjoys the status of special consultant to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Since its establishment, CSHRS has played an active role in human rights theoretical research, knowledge popularization and international exchange and cooperation.