Jan. 7-8, 2014
President Xi Jinping has called for a greater role of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in guiding the country's political and legal affairs, urging a balance between "vitality and order".
Xi made the comments during a central political and legal work meeting held from Jan. 7 to Jan. 8, 2014.
"The Party should lead legislation, ensure law enforcement and set an example in abiding the law," Xi said, adding that political and legal work should be conducted with an aim to safeguard Party policies and the authority of the law.
Jan. 7, 2014
Prosecutors should not publicly disclose the private information of minors involved in criminal cases and are required to respect and protect their reputations, China's top procuratorate said on Jan. 7, 2014.
Under a rule issued by the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Dec 31, 2013, prosecutors are told not to post or broadcast any information about minor offenders or victims, such as their names, home addresses, pictures or materials that can disclose their identities.
Jan. 8, 2014
The State Council would increase enterprises' retirees' pensions by 10 percent.
The decision was made at the Cabinet's executive meeting led by Premier Li Keqiang on Jan. 8, 2014. The move would benefit more than 74 million people who had retired from domestic enterprises.
The State Council urged government departments to reform their endowment insurance and pension systems.
The meeting also pledged to improve the social assistance system, which helps disadvantaged groups.
The social assistance system, when revamped, would offer financial aid that would meet the disadvantaged groups' standards of living.
Jan. 20, 2014
The Chinese government vowed to ensure that at least 90 percent of children with visual, hearing and intellectual disabilities receive primary and middle school education by the end of 2016, according to a plan publicized Jan. 20, 2014.
According to a 2014-2016 plan on improving education for learners with special needs, the country would increase investment, build more infrastructure, foster more quality teachers and reform special education curricula.
The plan was jointly mapped out by seven departments, including the ministries of education, civil affairs and finance, based on inspections and surveys across the country.
Jan. 22, 2014
Ana Pirtskhalava, vice president of International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY), and Samuel Muyizzi visited China Society For Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) on the morning of Jan. 22, 2014.
Zhao Xiaoling, director of China Society For Human Rights Studies and direcor of human rights research center of Party School of the Central Committee of CPC, and Zhang Yun, direcor of history institute in China Tibetology Research Center attended the meeting.
They discussed human rights issues with Ana Pirtskhalava and Samuel Muyizzi on gender equality and political rights of women, rights of homosexual people, policies on ethnic minority, guarantee of labor's rights, environment protection, Beijing Forum on Human Rights and the functions of China Society For Human Rights Studies.
Ana Pirtskhalava and Samuel Muyizzi thanked for CSHRS's reception and said, during this visit, they better understood China's view on human rights and the development of human rights in China, espectially in Tibet. Besides, they expressed their wishes to attend this year's Beijing Forum on Human Rights.
Jan. 26, 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited people in shanty town of a twon in Arxan, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 26, 2014.
Jan. 26, 2014
China will wage a war against poverty with a stronger resolve and prevent it from afflicting future generations, Premier Li Keqiang said.
High economic growth since China adopted reform and opening up more than 30 years ago has helped lift almost half the nation's population out of poverty. This is due to market-oriented reforms and the government's constant efforts in poverty relief, the premier said.
Despite the achievements, poverty is not fully rooted out, which has prompted the premier to make the vow in his tour to two deprived regions in the northwestern province of Shaanxi on Jan. 26, 2014.
Jan. 26, 2014
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) and Ministry of Justice issued a guidance to make it easier for the poor to apply for state compensation for wrongful detention, the SPC said Jan. 26, 2014.
The guidance stipulates that courts should notify people in writing of their rights to apply for state compensation. Legal aid institutions should expand channels for people to apply for the compensation and help them seek legal aid.
People who have been wrongfully arrested and have been verified to have no income may apply for state compensation, said the guidance.
Jan. 28, 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping gave children Spring Festival gifts at the Children Welfare House of Hohhot City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Jan. 28, 2014. Xi paid a visit to Inner Mongolia and extended New Year greetings to people of all ethnic groups.
Feb. 7, 2014
China will reform its pension scheme by unifying the two separate systems for urban and rural residents to allow people better access to social benefits, according to an executive meeting of the State Council on Feb. 7, 2014.
The move, part of the efforts to address pension payment gaps between urban and rural areas, was announced in a statement issued after the meeting presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
The unified system will build stable expectations for improving livelihood and facilitate population movement, said the meeting statement, adding that it will also boost consumption and encourage more business start-ups.
Feb. 10, 2014
China's central government on Monday issued a guideline to develop the nation's food industry, vowing to establish systems to improve people's nutritional intake.
In a notice issued on the government's official website, the government said it will establish systems to guarantee supply of quality food, and a system guiding people to improve their nutrition.
The guideline said that although the production capacity of food has been strengthened and people's diet and health has improved, China's food production cannot meet demand for nutrition.
Feb. 12, 2014
A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Feb. 12, 2014, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). No casualties have been reported.
The epicenter, with a depth of 12 km, is located at Yutian County in southwest Xinjiang, or about 36.1 degrees north latitude and 82.5 degrees east longitude.
The quake was strongly felt by residents in Hotan, Yutian and Moyu.
Sixty-seven houses were toppled and more than 1,000 ones damaged to varying degrees, local authorities said, adding that 185 livestock deaths were reported.
Sections of railways were temporarily suspended in Xinjiang after the earthquake.
The railway administration of Urumqi suspended a section from Hotan to Moyu on the Kahe Railway, which links Kashgar and Hotan, for safety reasons, with a total of 531 passengers being stranded at Moyu.
Service resumed at 6:52 p.m. after safety and security checks.
A total of 143 aftershocks had been monitored as of 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, with the biggest one measuring at 5.7-magnitude at 5:24 p.m. in the same area.
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang ordered concerted effort to guarantee safety and property and issued instructions on relief work soon after the quake.
Local authorities and departments were urged to check disaster situations, conduct emergency management and strengthen seismic monitoring.
Feb. 12, 2014
The State Council, or China's cabinet, has urged reduction of PM2.5 and other pollutants in smoggy cities as the key task in the fight against air pollution.
"Major cities and regions where smog is frequent should be the focus (of air pollution control), and control of PM2.5 and PM10 should be a key task," said a statement released after an executive meeting of the State Council held on Feb. 12, 2014 and presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
The cabinet stressed that air pollution is the result of long-term accumulation and persistent efforts are needed to address the issue in order to accelerate the overall environmental drive and improve people's livelihoods.
Feb. 17, 2014
Submitting human rights issues to international criminal courts, does not improve the situation in that country, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Feb. 17, 2014.
Spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a daily news briefing when responded to a question that the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) will publicize its report and that may bring DPRK officials to the International Criminal Court.
"China has always advocated resolving human rights differences through constructive dialogue and cooperation based on equality and mutual respect," Hua said.
Feb. 18, 2014
China's Ministry of Education on Feb. 18, 2014 said it would step up supervision over the country's primary and middle schools in a bid to enhance education quality and fairness.
The move is aimed at tackling the imbalance of educational resources at the local level and reducing students' workloads, said the ministry in a document posted on its website.
Despite continuous efforts to provide quality education to all, a remarkable educational imbalance has emerged among schools and between urban and rural areas, often forcing parents to pay extra, sometimes illicit, fees to get their children into better schools.
Feb. 18, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Feb. 18, 2014 called for solid efforts in pushing forward reforms to achieve new breakthroughs in the country's economic and social development.
At a workshop attended by leading officials of provincial-level regions and ministerial-level officials, Li reiterated the importance of reforms for sustainable and healthy growth.
Acknowledging the difficulties in the process, he urged a determinate yet progressive approach by first piloting reforms in some areas before rolling them out nationwide.
Feb. 25, 2014
China unveiled a set of reforms to its petition system on Feb. 25, 2014, vowing rule of law in handling petition cases and expanding petition channels online to better redress public grievances.
According to a set of guidelines released by the general offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, authorities will stick to lawful means to dissolve conflicts and disputes.
Any malpractice that constrains the public from legal petitioning will be rectified and prohibited.
Guaranteeing and improving people's wellbeing will become the "groundwork" to prevent and defuse disputes, under the guidelines.
Petitioning, also known as letters and calls, is the administrative system for hearing public complaints and grievances. People who are not satisfied with government decisions can request reexamination.
Many complaints are filed each year in China, in which petitioners generally see injustice in land acquisition, social security, education, healthcare or environmental protection.
Feb. 25, 2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Beijing's hutongs in the heavy smog on Feb. 25, 2014, calling for strengthened efforts to address pollution and improved city management.
Such a visit by Chinese leaders is rare, but it is not the first time Xi has made such a surprise appearance among ordinary people, moves that show his populist approach.
Xi visited trendy Nanluoguxiang Hutong and walked along the banks of a nearby river on Feb. 25, 2014. He also visited Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall, Capital Museum, a water plant and the command center of Beijing's subway.
Feb. 26, 2014
The State Council, China's cabinet, met on Feb. 26, 2014 to discuss deploying a modern vocational education program to improve the quality of the country's vast labor force and increase employment.
Presided over by Premier Li Keqiang, the meeting agreed that developing the program is a strategic move for economic transformation and improvement of people's wellbeing.
The Chinese government has advocated a contemporary vocational education that will help nurture tens of millions of engineers, technical workers and "open the gates of success to young people," according to a statement from the meeting.
Feb. 26, 2014
The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced on Feb. 26, 2014 the country will build a fair, unified and standardized pension system for its rural and urban population before 2020.
The scheme, together with other social assistance and benefits, will better safeguard seniors' basic lives, according to a cabinet document that seeks to unify the current basic pension systems that have led to unequal benefits among urban and rural residents.
Urban residents have enjoyed better basic pension benefits compared to those in the countryside under the separate pension systems, but the new rule seeks to change that and make the system fairer, regardless of people's urban or rural identities.
Feb. 27, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has signed a decree to issue a regulation on social assistance that calls for open, fair and timely aid for the needy.
The regulation, which will come into effect on May 1, is the country's first legal document to coordinate and regulate a fragmentary social assistance system. It says social assistance work should be in proportion with the country's economic and social development level.
The rules detail a minimum level of living standards, support for extremely poor people, assistance for people affected by disasters, medical assistance, and help in areas including education, housing and employment.
Feb. 27, 2014
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the group on Feb. 27, 2014.
Xi presided over the meeting, stressing that Internet security and informatization is a major strategic issue concerning a country's security and development as well as people's life and work.
"Efforts should be made to build our country into a cyber power," he said.
Premier Li Keqiang and Liu Yunshan, who are both members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, are the group's deputy heads.
Feb. 28, 2014
China published a report on the United States' human rights record on Feb. 28, 2014, in response to U.S. criticism and "irresponsible remarks" about China.
"The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013" was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, in response to "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013" made public by the U.S. State Department on Feb. 27, 2014.
China's report states that there were serious human rights problems in the U.S in 2013, with the situation deteriorating in many fields. Once again posing as "the world judge of human rights", the U.S. government "made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks" on almost 200 countries and regions, the report says.
Mar. 2, 2014
China published a report on the United States' human rights record on Friday, in response to U.S. criticism and "irresponsible remarks" about China.
"The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2013" was released by the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, in response to "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013" made public by the U.S. State Department on Thursday.
China's report states that there were serious human rights problems in the U.S in 2013, with the situation deteriorating in many fields. Once again posing as "the world judge of human rights", the U.S. government "made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks" on almost 200 countries and regions, the report says.
Mar. 2, 2014
A group of unidentified armed men on Saturday stormed into a railway station in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, causing injuries, said the city police.
Pictures on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, show local police patrolling the station. Bodies in blood can be spotted on the ground in the pictures. Doctors were seen transporting injured people to a local hospital.
Mar. 3, 2014
China has closed 5,088 illegal clinics in three months amid a crackdown on illicit medical practices, the country's health authority has announced.
Mar. 3, 2014
China is considering to build two outdoor facilities to help research smog, the Beijing News reported on Sunday.
The plan to build atmospheric simulation chambers has been submitted to the economic planning body for approval, the newspaper quoted He Hong, a researcher in charge of the project's preparatory work, as saying.
Mar. 4, 2014
As a widely representative and inclusive political organization, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is expected to pursue maximum consensus for and contribute wisdom to China's ongoing comprehensive reform.
Mar. 5, 2014
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli on Tuesday called to speed up public hospital reforms and support medical services run by social capital.
Mar. 5, 2014
China's top legislature will continue to review the environmental protection law draft amendment and plan for laws on water and soil pollution prevention and control, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Mar. 5, 2014
The presidium of the second session of China's 12th National People's Congress (NPC) hold their first meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 4, 2014. The second session of the 12th NPC, the national legislature, is scheduled to open in Beijing on March 5.
Mar. 6, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers the government work report during the opening meeting of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 5, 2014.
Mar. 6, 2014
China will carry out a new type of people-centered urbanization that will grant rural people who live in cities more social welfare currently enjoyed by the city dwellers, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang on Wednesday.
Mar. 9, 2014
The second plenary meeting of the second session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 7, 2014.
Mar. 9, 2014
A Malaysian passenger plane carrying 239 people has lost contact with air traffic control after leaving Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, the carrier said Saturday.
Mar. 9, 2014
Zhang Dejiang, executive chairperson of the presidium of the second session of China's 12th National People's Congress (NPC) and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presides over the first meeting of the presidium's executive chairpersons at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 8, 2014.
Mar. 9, 2014
The third plenary meeting of the second session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 8, 2014.
Mar. 10, 2014
A senior Tibetan official on Sunday denounced the recent meeting between the U.S. President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama, calling it "a severe interference in China's internal affairs."
Mar. 10, 2014
The fourth plenary meeting of the second session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2014.
Mar. 10, 2014
Zhang Dejiang, executive chairperson of the presidium of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), presides over the second meeting of the presidium at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 9, 2014.
Mar. 11, 2014
The third plenary meeting of the second session of China's 12th National People's Congress (NPC) is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 10, 2014.
Mar. 13, 2014
A kindergarten in Xi'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province was closed on Wednesday after parents disclosed the school has long been administering antiviral drugs to children.
Police have put the private kindergarten's legal representative, principal and kindergarten doctor into custody, a joint investigation team with Xi'an government authorities confirmed on Wednesday.
Mar. 13, 2014
The State Council has made revisions to the government work report that will be put for voting at the annual parliamentary session, which is to close on Thursday.
According to the secretariat for the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), the revisions were made after the report was reviewed by the NPC deputies and discussed by members of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee.
Mar. 13, 2014
The closing meeting of the second session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is held in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2014.
Mar. 13, 2014
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), presides over the closing meeting of the second annual session of China's 12th NPC at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 13, 2014.
Mar. 13, 2014
Zhang Dejiang, executive chairperson of the presidium of the second session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), presides over the third meeting of the presidium at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2014.
Mar. 13, 2014
Zhang Dejiang, executive chairperson of the presidium of the second session of China's 12th National People's Congress (NPC) and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presides over the second meeting of the presidium's executive chairpersons at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 12, 2014.
Mar. 17, 2014
Xinhua learned on Sunday that the Ministry of Public Security will make more efforts to tighten public security and take decisive measures to deal with serious violent criminals.
The ministry said that it will carry out armed patrols and take timely measures to handle violent criminals.
Mar. 18, 2014
China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is planning a nationwide safety campaign to check the manufacture, sales and use of medical apparatus.
Mar. 19, 2014
China said on Tuesday it opposes politicizing the human rights issue or using it as pretext to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the comment at a daily news briefing when responding to a question about the United Nations Human Rights Council discussing human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
Mar. 23, 2014
China still has 110 million people, including more than 15 million students and teachers, in rural China without access to safe drinking water, a senior official said on Friday.
"Providing every rural family with safe water to drink by 2015 is at the top of the agenda of the Ministry of Water Resources this year and the next," Jiao Yong, vice-minister of water resources, told a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office.
Mar. 23, 2014
China will continue to make positive efforts in promoting and protecting human rights as always, in line with its national situation, a spokesman said on Friday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the remarks when responding to a question about the United Nations Human Rights Council's endorsement of a China report during its 25th session.
Mar. 24, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang urged further work on saving energy and reducing emissions, according to an official statement released Sunday.
Li said that the environmental work and economic expansion shall be coordinated, because reducing production capacity creates huge business potential for new, green industries.
Mar. 24, 2014
China is striving to turn its social insurance system into a fairer and more sustainable one, said Hu Xiaoyi, Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security on Sunday.
Social insurance, with focus on basic old-age pensions and medical insurance, will cover all the population, said Hu at the ongoing China Development Forum 2014 here.
Mar. 24, 2014
The Chinese and U.S. presidents agreed here on Monday to strengthen cooperation on fighting terrorism and transnational crime.
At a meeting with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama on the sidelines of a nuclear security summit slated for Monday and Tuesday here, Chinese President Xi Jinping said he appreciated Obama's condemnation of terrorism in all forms, and China is willing to work with all the countries, including the United States, to fight terrorism.
Mar. 26, 2014
China will inject more funds and let the market play a bigger role in reforming its medical sector, concluded an executive meeting of the State Council on Tuesday.
The country will work to establish a universal medical insurance system, speed up reform in public hospitals, and relax market entry requirements for the private sector to build health institutions in an orderly manner, according to a statement issued after the meeting, presided over by Premier Li Keqiang.
Mar. 31, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the nation's reforms in boosting economic restructuring for a better growth mode will contribute to the improvement of people's livelihoods and concrete efforts are needed to realize the target.
Apr.4,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday morning attended a tree planting activity and called for multi-generation efforts from people of all ethnic groups to protect forest resources.
Apr.4,2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for full efforts to overcome difficulties in the country's medical reform, underlining a special focus on public hospitals at the county level.
Apr.9,2014
Chinese authorities unveiled a package of healthcare measures on Wednesday, which consist of relaxing price controls covering non-public hospital services and encouraging the private sector to build health institutions.
The measures were jointly announced in a circular by the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Apr.10,2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivers a keynote speech at the opening of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2014 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, April 10, 2014.
Apr.10,2014
Eight pupils died and 32 were injured when a bus overturned in China's southernmost province of Hainan on Thursday morning.
The accident happened at about 11 a.m. in Chengmai County, where Xincai School had organized an outing for 586 students in 14 buses, according to the county government.
Apr.10,2014
China will establish a national online system for petitioning by the end of the year, authorities said at a meeting in Huai'an of east China's Jiangsu Province on Friday.
The State Bureau for Letters and Calls (SBLC) said the new network will allow petitioners to submit various complaints via the Internet and government at all levels to share information.
Apr.13,2014
China will launch a renewed campaign against the spread of pornography on the Internet, the national anti-porn agency announced on Sunday.
Apr.15,2014
The spirit and principle that guide people-to-people and state-to-state dialogue and exchanges are equality and mutual respect. The purpose is to enhance mutual understanding, deepen mutual trust and promote cooperation through dialogue and exchanges. China always attaches importance and stands ready to carry out dialogue and cooperation with countries including the UK in the field of human rights based on equality and mutual respect.
But what we have seen is that the UK released a so-called Human Rights and Democracy 2013-14, making irresponsible remarks about the political system of China, slandering and criticizing China's human rights situation. China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to that. What the British side has done does no good to its dialogue and communication with China on the subject of human rights, nor does this benefit the sound and steady growth of China-UK relations. We urge the British side to stop using human rights as a pretext for interference in China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty and create conditions for the next round of human rights talks.
Apr.16,2014
Premier Li Keqiang on April 16 chaired a State Council executive meeting, analysis of the economic situation in the first quarter, the deployment of the implementation in 2014 to deepen economic reform key tasks to determine the "three rural" measures to develop financial services decided to continue to support and promote entrepreneurship and improve employment tax policy.
The meeting noted that the basic content of preserving jobs is an important objective of steady growth and benefit people's livelihood. To further promote the employment of college graduates entrepreneurial focus groups, laid-off workers, the disabled, etc., to support small and micro enterprise development, it was decided, due by the end of 2013 to support and promote the entrepreneurial employment tax policy focus groups, was extended to December 2016 31, and to be perfect.
Apr.21,2014
The opening meeting of the eighth session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee is held in Beijing, capital of China, April 21, 2014. Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the meeting.
Apr.23,2014
A Chinese government regulation, made public on Wednesday, forbids citizens to bypass authorities to file complaints.
Central government departments will not take complaints about issues that should be handled by provincial governments or that are being processed by them, said Zhang Enxi, spokesman with the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, about the new regulation.
At local level, citizens should go to government departments that are authorized by law to handle relevant issues and governments at higher levels will not take their complaints if they jump rank, according to the regulation, scheduled to take effect on May 1.
Apr.23,2014
A national campaign will be launched to crack down on arbitrary charges by primary and secondary schools.
The campaign will target irregular fee-related practices by teachers and schools, including holding extra classes for payment, according to the statement jointly released by the education and finance ministries, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Audit Office and the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.
Apr.24,2014
The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, on Thursday voted to adopt revisions to the Environmental Protection Law.
With 70 articles compared with 47 in the original law, the revised Environmental Protection Law, the first change to the legislation in 25 years, sets environmental protection as the country's basic policy.
Apr.25,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to resolutely crack down on terrorism and secessionism with high intensity to safeguard national security.
Xi made the remarks on Friday at the 14th group study session on national security and social stability by the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
Calling terrorism the common enemy of the people, Xi urged improving counter-terrorism systems and abilities and the public to build a "wall of bronze and iron" to fight against terrorism.
Xi urged all regions and departments to shoulder responsibilities and cooperate to maintain national security and social stability which are "extremely urgent" for deepening reforms and realizing the Chinese dream of national rejuvenation.
Apr.27--30,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered troops stationed in Xinjiang to deal a "crushing blow" to terrorists.
Xi, chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when visiting the People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops stationed in Xinjiang.
Speaking with senior PLA officials on Sunday, Xi ordered PLA forces to assist local government and party departments in combating terrorism and safeguarding social stability.
All forms of terrorism should be rooted out in an early phase, while decisive action must be taken to stop terrorists gaining momentum, he said.
Apr.29,2014
China's top court said on Tuesday that all verdicts related to paroles and reduction of sentences should be posted on the Internet.
The Supreme People's Court said that such judgments are now only known by those involved in the cases, but the new order - which takes effect on June 1 - requires that the verdicts should be posted online.
Additionally, Chinese courts should post details of such cases within five days after an application.
Apr.30,2014
President Xi demanded "decisive actions" be taken after the attack. He said that the battle to combat violence and terrorism cannot allow even a moment of slackness, and decisive action must be taken to suppress the terrorists' momentum,
Two suspects and a citizen were killed in Wednesday's railway station terror attack in the regional capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, police said Thursday.
An investigation showed one of the two suspects was Sedirdin Sawut, a 39-year-old man from Xayar County, Aksu in southern Xinjiang.
The two have long been involved in religious extremism. At 7:10 p.m. Wednesday, they stabbed people with knives and set off explosives at the exit of Urumqi south railway station.
May 6,2014
Two research institutes have released China's first National Security Blue Book.
The China National Security Research Report says, among other things, that terrorism here in China is taking on new characteristics.
May 8,2014
China on Friday welcomed the evaluation and suggestions by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on implementing the international rights covenant.
The UN committee concluded a review of China's second report on implementing the covenant on Thursday. Chinese ambassador to the United Nations office in Geneva Wu Hailong took part in the deliberation.
May 9,2014
Preferential policies will be granted to encourage college graduates to work at grassroots or start businesses in a move to boost employment, the State Council, China's cabinet, announced on Tuesday.
Graduates that decide to work at grassroots will be provided with tuition compensation or a reduction in their student loan, the State Council said in a statement.
Small-sum guaranteed loans or subsidies will be given to new graduates to open online shops, it said. Small and micro businesses in technology will benefit from similar policies once they recruit a certain amount of college graduates.
May 14,2014
The State Council, China's cabinet, said on Wednesday that it has approved the establishment of an inter-ministry joint conference mechanism to coordinate income distribution reform.
The mechanism, led by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planning body, includes the ministries of education, science and technology, public security, civil affairs, finance, human resources and social security, according to a statement on the website of the central government.
May 16,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday sent his respects to the nation's disabled people and called for greater efforts to improve their lives.
Xi made the remarks when meeting 165 disabled people who were honored as national role models for their self-reliance at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
China has about 85 million disabled people, accounting for nearly 6.3 percent of the total population.
Xi said the living conditions of disabled people have drastically improved since the country's reform and opening up drive and with the support of the entire nation.
May 17,2014
The seminar with the theme of "Chinese dream and the human rights in China" was held by the China Society for Human Rights Studies in Jinan. nearly 50 experts and scholars from universities and the institution for Human Rights Studies had a heated discussion on the contents of human rights against the background of realization of Chinese dream.The Vice chairman of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,the president of China Society for Human Rights Studies Luo Haocai,the deputy director of the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China Cui Yuying attended and addressed the meeting.
May 19--20,2014
From 19 to 20 ,May 2014 , the special representative of the Ministry of foreign affairs of China of human rights affairs Liu hua and the director of the Asia and Pacific Division of the Ministry of foreign affairs of British Li feng co-chaired the 21st Human Rights Dialogue in London. During the conference, they met with the Permanent Under-Secretary of the Ministry of foreign affairs of British Fred. Both countries dispatched delegates from Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Ethnic Affairs, Religious Affairs, Women's Affairs and the Persons with Disabilities to attend the meeting.
May 22,2014
A market attack in Urumqi that left at least 31 dead and 94 injured Thursday morning was terrorist violence, according to authorities.
Two vehicles, without license plates, broke through roadside fences and plowed into people at an open air market at Park North Street near Renmin Park at 7:50 a.m. and explosive devices were set off, said a statement issued by the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's publicity department.
May 25,2014
The country has launched a one-year nationwide campaign against terrorism after a series of violent and deadly attacks by radicals and religious extremists.Yang Huanning, executive vice-minister of public security, said the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region would be the main battlefield.
May 26,2014
The Chinese government on Monday released a white paper detailing the progress made in human rights in 2013, highlighting enhanced social fairness, justice and freedom of speech.
May 28--29,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for "nets spread from the earth to the sky" to defend against terrorist acts in Xinjiang, stressing long-term stability as the main goal for the region.
Xi made the remarks at the second central work conference on northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a two-day meeting which closed on Thursday.
While urging strengthened precautions and international anti-terrorism cooperation, Xi called for "walls made of copper and steel" and "nets spread from the earth to the sky" to capture terrorists.
May 28,2014
The State Council, China's cabinet, on Tuesday issued a regulation on assessing local governments' performance in implementing a government action plan on air pollution control.
May 29,2014
The Chinese State Council, the country's cabinet, has issued a guideline to boost healthcare reforms this year.
The guideline, announced in a government statement on Wednesday, puts forward 31 tasks in six fields to deepen the reforms.
Those in public hospitals will be stepped up through adjusting prices of medical services, improving medicine purchasing in county-level hospitals and finetuning policies and mechanisms for traditional Chinese medicines, the statement said.
According to the statement, 700 more counties will start trial reforms of their public hospitals in 2014. This means the trial reform will affect half of the country's counties and about 500 million people in rural areas.
May 30,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for fostering socialist values among children while sending greetings ahead of Saturday's International Children's Day.
Xi visited a primary school in Haidian district in northern Beijing on Friday morning, attending school activities and meeting students, their parents and teachers.
May 30,2014
Chinese authorities must improve education, social aid and protection for minors, Premier Li Keqiang urged on Friday, two days ahead of International Children's Day.
Li made the remarks during a tour of a children's hospital in Beijing, where he visited disabled orphans receiving treatment.
The premier said such orphans are among the people in greatest need of help, and called on doctors and nurses to do a better job in curing their physical as well as psychological pains.
Noting that a special program had provided medical treatment and rehabilitation training to more than 80,000 disabled orphans, Li said authorities must step up investment in the scheme to allow more kids, especially those from the countryside and less developed regions, to benefit from it.
June 5,2014
Luo Haocai extended a warm welcome to the delegation of human rights of Lao People's Democratic Republic, and expressed his condolence to the deaths of several senior Lao officials in a plane crash. President Luo briefed the purpose,constitution and function of China Society for Human Rights Studies, as well as the theoretical research, education and training, international exchanges and cooperation on human rights.
June 10,2014
The Chinese central government on Tuesday published a white paper detailing the "one country, two systems" practice in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), stressing the policy as a basic state policy despite new circumstances.
June 11,2014
The website of the Ministry of Education issued a document, It asked each area and the relevant departments should actively take measures to promote the employment fairness.
June 17,2014
The afternoon of June 17, London. It was sunny after the cool weather for several days.
In a classical building of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and British Prime Minister attended the signing ceremony of a series of the cooperation documents between the two countries.
Afterwards, the two leaders entered the Locarno hall which located in the second floor, jointly met with a large number of Chinese and foreign journalists who had already been waiting for a long time.
Facing to the British journalists "cunning" questions, Li Keqiang responsed them respectively, impressing the outside with the self-confidence, honesty, intelligence and humor from the East and China.
June 17,2014
China's cabinet, the State Council, is checking up on how people's complaints about government work are handled.
June 23--24,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday urged the nation to intensify its efforts to develop vocational education.
Xi said vocational education is an important part of both the national educational system and developing a skilled labor force, in an instruction to a two-day national work conference on vocational education, which was convened on Monday.
He stressed vocational education must be valued because it is an important path for young people to achieve success and could stimulate employment and start-ups as well as foster technical skills.
June 23,2014
A bi-monthly session of China's top legislature opened on Monday with bills on food safety and speedy trials for minor offenses on the table.
Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the opening meeting of the session, which runs from Monday through Friday.
A draft revision to the food safety law was submitted for first reading. It is the first proposed revision of the law since it took effect in 2009.
June 24,2014
China launched a campaign on Friday to rid the Internet of audio and video materials that promote terrorism and violence.
The move is aimed at safeguarding social stability in China's western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and long-term peace, according to a statement from the State Internet Information Office.
June 26,2014
Chinese President Xi Jinping has vowed to harshly crack down on drug-related crimes and to contain the spread of drugs.
In a written instruction made public on Wednesday ahead of the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking which falls on June 26, Xi called on authorities to be aware of the danger of drugs and adopt forceful measures to wipe them out.
China still faces a grave situation in drug control, Xi wrote, adding that drug taking, trafficking, planting and manufacturing should all be targeted amid comprehensive measures to control drugs.
June 30,2014
China will endeavor to build a comprehensive, transparent and efficient fiscal and tax system by deepening reforms in the coming years, the central leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said on Monday.
Priorities include improving management and supervision of government budgets, facilitating the building of a comprehensive, well-regulated and transparent modern budget system and optimizing the tax system, said a statement released after a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, presided over by its general secretary, Xi Jinping.
July 2, 2014
Premier Li stressed the significance of rectifying the problems discovered in the audit when presiding over the executive meeting of the State Council. After listening to Audit Office’s Work Report on Central Budget Execution and Other Financial Revenue and Expenditure 2013, Li reaffirmed that the problems discovered in the audit would be firmly rectified and the clear accounts would be offered to the public.
July 9, 2014
Supreme People’s Court convened the press conference and introduced the details on the 4th Five-year Reform Program of People’s Court (2014-2018). This program was a programmatic document to guide the reform work of courts in the following five years. It coincided with the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee Decision and Central Judicial Reform Office Opinions, clarified the overall thoughts of the courts reform, and put forward to preliminarily build a socialist judiciary power execution system with Chinese characteristics till 2018.
July 9, 2014
In Yangzhou, International department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commission on Human Rights of Australia jointly held capacity-building training courses for those competing for UN human rights mechanism posts. Hua Liu, special representative of human rights affairs of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jinhua Hong, president of Municipal Committee of CPPCC and project manager of Commission on Human Rights of Australia attended the course and delivered speeches. More than 30 officials and experts from both China and Australia attended the three-day training course and they will discuss closely and friendly on three themes: UN human rights mechanism, duties and functions of special mechanism of human rights council and how to compete for special mechanism of human rights council.
July 10, 2014
The State Council Information Office issued the white papers of China’s Foreign Aid (2014) describing objectively and comprehensively the details of Chinese government’s foreign aid from 2010 to 2012. It pointed out that China offered foreign aids without attaching political conditions, without interfering the internal affairs of recipient countries and with respects to recipient countries’ rights to freely choose development roads and modes. China upholds the basic principles of foreign aids: mutual respect, equal treatments, keeping promises and win-win cooperation.
July 12, 2014
Shanghai pioneered the deployment conference of judicial reform pilot in the whole city, including executing the regulation of “limited posts” among judges and procurators, allowing to select judges and procurators from lawyers, strengthening the system of “inquisitor involving in judging and responsible for it” and unifying the personnel and finance management of local courts. This conference marked the beginning of judicial reform and all pilot measures taken will be high-profile.
July 13/14, 2014
The 12th Seminar on Sino-German human rights was held in Beijing today. The seminar was themed at international laws and human rights protection. Experts and scholars from China and German exchanged ideas and discussed deeply and frankly on how to use international laws to protect sovereignties and citizens’ rights from different countries and how to connect international human rights conventions with specific conditions of each countries. Board consensus was reached. Mengfu, Huang, former vice president of the National Committee of CPPCC and president of Chinese Human Rights Development Foundation, and Yuying, Cui, vice head of the State Council Information Office attended the seminar and delivered speeches.
July 14, 2014
Supreme People’s Court released “The approval on Compensation Committee of People’s Court to rectify former compensation standard of personal liberty’s violation based on article 30 of State Compensation Law of China”. The approval will take effect from August 1st, 2014.
July 14, 2014
Mingzhao, Cao, head of the State Council Information Office, Guangjin Lu, director of department NO.7 of the State Council Information Office, as well as Ying, Xu, vice director of Department No.2 of the State Council Information Office met Herta D?ubler-Gmelin, representative of German team of Sino-German Human rights seminar, humanitarian spokeswoman of German Social Democratic Party, former president of Federal Ministry of Justice and her companions. Both sides exchanged ideas deeply on related Sino-German Human rights.
July 21, 2014
Recently Supreme People’s Court released Provisions on People’s Courts to Accept the Supervision of Case Litigants in the Process of Trial and Execution to request courts at different levels to execute the systems such as incorruption supervision card and incorruption return visit and accept the supervision of case litigants in the process of trial and execution.
July 22, 2014
Ministry of Education and the State Council Information Office held the unveiling ceremony in Beijing for the second batch of national human rights education and training centers, including the center for human rights studies of Renmin University of China, the Center for Human Rights Studies of Fudan University, the institute for human rights of Wuhan University, the center for human rights studies of Shandong University and center for human rights education and studies of Southwest University of Political Science and Law. Haocai, Luo, vice president of the 10th National Committee of CPPCC and chairman of China Society for Human rights Studies attended the ceremony and Weihong, Li, vice president of Ministry of Education and Yuying, Cui, vice head of the State Council Information Office delivered speeches respectively. They stated that the founding of five new national human rights education and training centers reflected the great importance Chinese government attached to human rights affairs and the hope to build socialist human rights theory system with Chinese characteristics, spread the knowledge and culture of human rights, develop policy consults and social service, promote foreign exchanges and international communication and make greater contributions to human rights affairs of our country.
July 23, 2014
A TransAsia Airways plane of Taiwan with 54 passengers and 4 cockpit crews on board flying from Gaoxiong to Penghu crashed into Penghu. 48 of them were killed, 8 were injured and another 5 were injured on the ground caused by the crash.
July 27, 2014
Ministry of Human resources and Social Security declared that off-site deposit of basic pension accounts for the retired were free of charge under the situation that the deposits were the first two deposits every month and each of them is fewer than 2500yuan (2500 included). The other deposits except those mentioned above will be charged service fees.
July 28, 2014
A violent terrorism attack arose in Shache County of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. it was a serious violent terrorism attack which is organized, designed, and well-planned by both inside and outside terrorism groups, causing 37 deaths (35 hans, 2 uyurs),and 13 injuries, 31cars being hit and 6 of them being burned. The case ended with 59 terrorists being killed, 215 related terrorists being arrested and crime tools such as jihad flags, broadswords and axes being captured.
July 29, 2014
Supervision Report on National Disable Persons’ Living Conditions and Their Process of Being Moderately Prosperous released by China Disable Persons’ Federation demonstrated that the living conditions of the disabled persons are being improved apparently and steadily with the living index growing by 4.8% and reaching 75.7%.
July 30, 2014
The State Council released Opinions on further promoting the Reform of Household Registration System. It pointed out that it is essential to unite the household registration system of town and country, eliminate the difference between agricultural household and non-agricultural household, cancel the use of blue-print Hukou, and register all the household as family household to reflect the administration function of population registration by household registration system. It also called for the consistence of education, health, family planning, employment, social security, housing, land and census systems between town and country.
July 30, 2014
Premier Minister Li presided over the executive meeting of the State Council and requested to strengthen the service for rural workers and steadily promote the urbanization of the shifting agricultural population, discuss Provisional Regulations on Real Estate Registration (Consultant Draft) and determine to ask the public for opinions, properly release the statistics of unemployment rate of big cities and towns to better serve the economic and social development.
July 30, 2014
Ministry of Education released Open Lists for Higher Education Institutes involving ten articles and fifty specifications including some sensitive information the public concerned such as entrance exams, finances, asserts, and charges of institutes. Ministry of Education requested all the institutes to release the information on list timely and accurately to accept the supervision of the society.
Aug.1, 2014
Gas leak explosion that happened in Gaoxiong, Taiwan caused heavy casualties. After the accident, president Xi was extremely concerned and requested Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council PRC to convey his deep condolences to the victims and express his sincere comforts to bereaved family and the injured in the accident.
Aug.2, 2014
At 7:37, explosion happened at a Hub buffing workshop of Zhongrong Metal Production Co., Ltd in Development Zone of Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. After the accident, CPC Central Committee and the State Council were deeply concerned. President Xi made important statement to request Jiangsu Province and its related departments to commit to rescue and save the injured and comfort the bereaved family, find out the cause of the accident and the people who need to take responsibility, remember the sad lessons, the system of secure producing, take pains to eliminate all the possibilities of explosion to ensure the safety of people and properties.
Aug.3, 2014
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake at a depth of 12 kilometers jolted Ludian County (N 27.1, E 103.3) of Zhaotong City in Yunnan at 16:30. After the quake, president Xi was deeply concerned and made important instructions of putting saving people’s life at first place, endeavoring to decrease the number of casualties, and well managing the resettlement of people. Moreover, the related departments need to pay more attention to the quake, organize people to safe place in time and commit to earthquake relief, strengthen the forecast of aftershocks and prohibit the happening of the secondary disaster.
Aug.5, 2014
China Society for Human Rights complied and published Progress in China's Human Rights in 2013 (blue papers), which is the fourth blue papers on development of China’s human rights affairs published by China Society for Human Rights. It analyzed the humanitarian definition of Chinese dreams and explained the significance of the third plenary session of the 18th Central Committee to develop China’s human rights affairs. It conclude the overall features of Progress in China's Human Rights in 2013 and declared that the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government, based on China's prevailing conditions and reality, and aiming at promoting social fairness, justice and the people's well-being, comprehensively deepened the reform, promoted various undertakings in the economic, social and cultural fields, and safeguarded the people's rights to equal participation and development, so that the fruits of development would benefit the people in a better and more equal way. The part of special report discussed the situations of human rights protection such as anti-corruption, democratic construction of socialist consultancy, reform of labor education system, community’s rectification, public welfare lawsuit, left-behind children in villages, and construction of ecological civilization. Besides, combing the ten years’ changes after human rights written into constitution, it combed the works on human rights published in China’s mainland from 2003 to 2013 and wrote the search report.
Aug.7, 2014
The Ministry of Education published Administrative Standard of Schools for Compulsory Education, started the works of experimented zones, clarified six batches of administrative responsibilities, requested the equality of dealing with students and promoted the comprehensive development of students.
Aug.11, 2014
The Ministry of Finance released that the Central Budge increased the special fund of 500 million to 16.2 billion, with an increase of 3.2% compared to 2013 to ensure the nutrition improvement plan for compulsory education’s students in rural areas.
Aug.12, 2014
Co-held by the State Council Information Office and Tibet Autonomous Region, China Tibetan Development Forum opened at Lhasa, capital of Tibet Autonomous Region. Yu Zhengsheng, president of CPPCC and a member of Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau sent a congratulatory letter to the forum which was read on the opening ceremony. Sang Jiangcun, president of Tibet Autonomous Region and Cui Yuying deputy of director of the State Council Information Office delivered speeches separately. Main theme of the forum is “Chances and Choices of Tibetan Development”. Besides, there are three sub-themes of the 1.5 days’ forum: Tibetan Substantial Development Road, Passing and Protection of Tibetan culture, and protection of Tibetan Ecology and Environment. After the forum, representatives present at home and abroad visited Lhasa and Nyingchi to better know the changes of Tibet and real Tibetan.
Aug.20, 2014
Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau held a conference to listen to the report of Earthquake Relief Command of the State Council on earthquake relief work and arrange further earthquake relief work and after quake reconstruction work. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
Aug.20, 2014
Supreme People’s Court released the law describing four situations of work injury during the commute. According the law, workers are injured when they are on the way to or back from work place, the place of wife or husband, daughter or son, and parents. Those four situations is allowed to be work injury.
Aug, 21, 2014
The State Council released Opinions on promoting the reform and development of tourism, and encouraged the workers to well arrange paid annual holidays based on their own needs and situations. Opinions clarified to implement the system of paid annual holidays, strengthen legal holiday theories of the whole society, and involve the system of paid annual holidays into government agenda. As
Aug.24, 2014
National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People’s Republic of China released the Plan on Promoting countryside’s Poverty Alleviation on Health and Family Planning, which pointed out that till 2005, service internet was built up in county, town, and village in poor areas, the abilities of hospital at county level was improved greatly, and each town had a government health center, and each village had a clinic.
Aug.31, 2014
The tenth plenary session of the twelfth National People’s Congress was close in Beijing Central Hall of the people. The conference approved the decision on revising five laws including the Budget Law, Production Safety Law, and the Insurance Law. President Xi signed and released the document NO.12, NO.13 and NO.14.
Sept.3, 2014
The CPC central committee, the State Council and the Military Commission of CPC central committee held the panel discussion to commemorate the 69th anniversary on the victory of Chinese anti-Japanese War and World anti-fascist war. Xi Jinping, general secretary of CPC central committee, Chinese president and president of the Military Commission of CPC central committee said in his address that “there is no way of changing the histories but there are ways of creating the future. Today we are standing at the new starting line of history. By the commemoration of the victory, we memorized deeply the histories, warned ourselves of futures, more importantly, encouraged the whole party, the whole militaries and all Chinese people to burden the mission of history, work harder to realize the rejuvenation of the Chinese people.
Sept.4, 2014
The circular on national examination and enrollment system reform of the State Council was released. According to the circular, the pilot program of college entrance exam was begun with the removal of arts and science, which attracted great attention of the public. The 4000 words’ circular aimed at eliminating the problems such as one exam deciding the whole life, evaluating students only by grades, the imbalance between town and county’s chances to enter colleges, and the flaws to add grades and enroll new students; moreover, it offered the timetable and the specific ways of reform
Sept.4, 2014
Vice president of the Supreme Court voiced that courts at different levels shall persist the legal thinking and methods to promote scientific development of national compensation work, respect and protect human rights, facilitate the formation of national governance system.
Sept.5, 2014
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at a conference to mark the 60th anniversary of the National People's Congress (NPC), that China to implement the system of people's congresses and keep to the socialist path of political development with Chinese characteristics are fetal, feasible and vital. He clarified the principle, goals, requirements, and focuses of adhering and improving the system of people's congresses and developing socialist democratic politics and showed the ways of promoting and developing the system of people's congresses, innovating on theories and exercises of the system of people's congresses.
Sept.9, 2014
General Secretary of CPC central committee Xi Jinping inspected Beijing Normal University, well knew as the curdle of cultivating teachers on the eve of Teachers' Day and here he called on all teachers in China to be good teachers with ideal beliefs, sound ethics, great teaching skills and kind hearts.
Sept.9, 2014
In Geneva, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Office in Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland urged Japanese relative political persons to face and reflect history carefully, quit the attempt to cover or distort the truth of history, and make actual moves to get the faith of Asian neighboring countries and international societies.
Sept.11, 2014
National prosecutors held a conference for implementing the spirits of the second CPC and Xinjiang Panel Discussion in Beijing. The conferences urged prosecutors of Xinjiang to work hard to implement the requirements of anti-terrorism of CPC Central Committee and focus on violent terrorism, fight against four crimes including violent terrorism, religious terrorism, producing guns and bombs, and organizing to cross the borders, interfere, lead and get proof at the first sight, arrest and question quickly and continue to resist three evil forces.
Sept.16, 2014
Six departments including Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission, National Health and Family Planning Commission of the PRC jointly released the notice on implementing 2014’s important mission of promoting the service of medicine communication and efficiency, which requested to take different measures to realize the separation of seeing a doctor and selling medicine, explore the multiple methods of using excellent retail pharmacy to burden the mission of providing the service of what medical institutions do in pilot cities of public hospital, and gradually form the new system that doctors take responsibility of seeing the patients and prescribing, while the patients can choose to buy the medicine on the prescription in medical institutions or retail pharmacy.
Sept.17, 2014—Sept.18, 2014
Sept.18, 2014--Co-held by China Society for Human Rights Studies and China Foundation for Human Rights Development, the Seventh Beijing Forum on Human Rights opens in Beijing on September 17. The theme of the forum is the Chinese Dream: New Progress in China’s Human Rights. More than one hundred participants, including senior advisers from UN, experts and scholars and representatives of ambassadors in China attended the forum. Luo Haocai, president of China Society for Human Rights mentioned in his delivery speech “the Chinese dream included the social goal and prospect of human rights theories, pursuit and values.” Cai Mingzhao, Minister of the State Council Information Office of China mentioned in his speech “Themed at the goal of “Two one -hundred-year”; China made lots of new measures concerned human rights and explored a human rights development road which conforms to national conditions after years’ efforts”.
Sept.25, 2014
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's said at Regular Press Conference “As for the Ilham Tohti case, the facts are clear and the evidence is definite. The details of this case have already been released. Some countries wave the banner of "democracy" and "human rights", take advantage of the Ilham Tohti case to point fingers at China, and even raise the absurd request of his "release". That is gross and unreasonable interference in China's internal affairs and judicial sovereignty.”
Sept.26, 2014
China Insurance Regulatory Commission said next year pilot personal income tax delaying for financial endowment insurance was opened, which marked the tax discount’s covering all three pillars of our national endowment insurance and the formation of the tax reduction endowment system.
Sept.28, 2014--Sept.29, 2014
Central National Work Conference with the sixth commendation meeting on national union and progress of the State Council was held in Beijing. This conference was the first national work conference held and the fourth national work conference after the establishment of the PRC.
Oct.9, 2014
The Supreme People’s Court released notice of the Supreme People’s Court’s trail of civil disputes cases on violating personal interests by internet information, which will take effect on October 10th. The new released notice combined with notice of suitable laws issues on trail of civil disputes cases caused by internet information communication and explanation of suitable laws issues on dealing with criminal cases, forming judging regulatory system of internet law issue, which will play a significant role in formulating internet behaviors and building better internet rules.
Oct.13, 2014
National Health and Family Planning Commission of the PRC held a video conference on application and payment work of national diseases emergency aiding fund, on which timely and prescriptive application and utilization are required in order to benefit patients as soon as possible and finally give full play to the fund.
Oct.17, 2014
National social poverty alleviation videophone conference was held in Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) made important statement on poverty alleviation and development work. He stressed that setting Oct.17 as the national poverty alleviation day and praising the advanced group and personnel on the first one played a significant role in deploying social poverty alleviation, passing Chinese traditional virtues of aiding the poor, following socialist core values, pledging all social strengths to face the poverty war and continuing to fight against poverty.
Oct.20, 2014 -- Oct.23, 2014
The fourth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing. The meeting heard a work report of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee addressed by president Xi and adopted a decision from the CPC Central Committee on "major issues concerning comprehensively advancing rule of law". President Xi made an explanation to the meeting. The meeting stressed that the general target is to form a system serving "the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics" and build a country under "the socialist rule of law" which means under the leadership of CPC, upholding socialism with Chinese characteristics, implementing socialist law theory with Chinese characteristics, forming integrate law system, efficient law implementation system, close law monitoring system, feasible law protection system, forming well law system inside CPC, unswervingly promoting country governance, administration, using power by rule of law jointly, insisting the integrate construction of law country, government and society, realizing scientific legislation, strict enforcement , fair judgment, and national law abiding, facilitating the modernization of national governance system and capacity.
Oct.23, 2014
The Chinese government delegation including Song Xiuyan, Head of the Delegation, also vice director of National Working Committee of Woman and Children under the State Council and the delegates from the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR) and the government of Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) attended the meeting of Consideration of China's Combined Seventh and Eighth Periodic Reports by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. UN Committee on the Elimination of all Forms of Discriminationagainst Women positively evaluated Chinese government’s efforts and gains and praised China’s achievements on sex equality and women’s development. The Chinese delegation including the delegates from central government, the government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (Hong Kong SAR) and the government of Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) answered the committee member’s questions on the Elimination of all Forms of Discriminationagainst Women and women rights and interests protection
Oct.23, 2014
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying spoke at Regular Press Conference that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights can make his request of visiting China's Tibet and Xinjiang through regular channels.
Oct.27, 2014
The 11the session of Standing Committee of the twelfth National People’s Congress was held in Beijing. Law drafts and amendments as well as relative work reports and appointment and removal regulation of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate were examined on the conference.
Oct.29, 2014
Vice representative of Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the UN Wang Min made a statement at the General Discussion on Items of Human Rights at the 3rd Committee of 69th General Assembly that the Chinese delegation strongly opposes the groundless accusations and attacks against China made by the United States in its statement today. The Statement of United States is completely fabrications and unfounded. It is very ridiculous that the United States keeps criticizing other countries, while there are piles of human rights problems unsolved within itself.
Nov.1--Nov.2
General secretary of CPC central committee, Chinese president also president of the Military Commission of CPC central committee Xi Jinping stressed on his inspection to Fujian its importance to comprehensively uphold the spirits of the Party's 18th national congress and the Third and Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, coordinately promote building a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepen reform and promote the process of rule of law, cultivate development motivation, stimulate the vitality of society, gather the unity of society, give full play in advantage and potential, keep up favorable tendency of economic and social development, continuously make new achievements and realize new breakthrough.
Nov.1
The eleventh session of the twelfth NPC Standing Committee adopted the decision of modifying Administrative Procedural Law, which was released by the fifteenth president order signed by Chinese president Xi Jinping. The meeting reviewed and adopted the decision of setting National Constitution day which was designated as December 4th . Multiple activities of constitution education and propaganda will be opened.
Nov.4
National Development and Reform Commission released the full story of National plan on handling with climate changes, which is the first contingent plan of our nation on climate. According to the plan, we will comprehensively complete the goal of controlling the emission of greenhouse gas and make obvious progress in low carbon pilot demonstration.
Nov.6
Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hong Lei said on regular press conference when it comes to human rights, we always maintain that we should carry out dialogue and cooperation in this regard based on mutual respect. We oppose using sanctions at every turn in international affairs.
Nov.13
China trail procedure open web set by the Supreme people's court was officially put into operation on which trial procedures and progress of local courts in twenty provinces(district and city) including Beijing, Zhejiang and Chongqing can be checked.
Nov.14
Nearly 50 domestic experts and scholars gathered in Suzhou, having a discussion "China under the rule of law China and human rights". President of China Society for Human Rights Studies Luo Haocai delivered a speech at the opening ceremony, he said arounding the construction of the Socialist System of the rule of law with Chinese Characteristics, strengthen the human rights protection, promote the legalization of human rights and push the development of human rights.Luo Haocai said, the human rights protection is closely related to the construction of the rule of law, the rule of law must adhere to the people's principal position, "the core of the rule of law should always be to protect human rights".The seminar is sponsored by China Society for Human Rights Studies. Li Junru, Chen Shiqiu and nearly 50 experts and scholars had a discussion on "The rule of law and the protection of human rights", "judicial guarantee for human rights", "The comparison of human rights and the rule of law and reference", "the development of human rights and national governance", "Chinese characteristics of human rights theory and the construction of discourse system ".
Nov.18
Explanation on major issues of applicable law of criminal cases on dealing with harming medicine security jointly formulated by the Supreme people's court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate was released. The explanation improved the sentencing and criminal criteria of producing and selling fake medicine.
Nov.19
Primer Li Keqiang presided over the meeting of the State Council Standing Committee and decided to take further and effective measures to reduce the high cost of financing, deployed to promote the development of children in poor areas to make them enjoy better futures, discussed and adopted the amendment(draft) to promote scientific results transformation law of PRC.
Nov.20
The Supreme People's Procuratorate released the new amendment to regulations on reviewing criminal appeal cases which strengthened the protection and specifications of appeal rights in mutiple aspects.
Nov.22
A 6.3-magnitude quake hit the Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China's Sichuan Provinceat 4:55 p.m..The hypocenter was around 18 kilomters deep. General secretary of CPC central committee, Chinese president also president of the Military Commission of CPC central committee Xi Jinping, who was visiting Fiji made important remarks after the quake that the provincial and civil affairs authorities must be swift in organizing rescue and relief work and do their best to minimize casualties. He also ordered the military and armed police to support and help with the quake relief. Xi asked local authorities to strengthen post-quake monitoring and prevent secondary disasters, well settle the people affected and guaranteed a warm winter for them.
Nov.24
Member of Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang made an inspection tour of the Ministry of Water Resources in Beijing and held a symposium. He first visited Department of Rural Water Resources and got to know the detail of project on rural water drinking safety. Hearing that the mission of rural water drinking has been completed, Li urged everyone to know the importance and difficulty of this mission and work harder to satisfy people. He stressed that governments at all levels shall take responsibilities for all porjects on civil affairs, implement vigorously to make achievements for people’s promises.
Nov.24
The State Council approved and released overall reconstrcution plan for Ludian earthquake area (Overall plan for short in the following).Based on the fundamental rules of CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Ludian’s reconstruction after quake which includes human-centered, respecting nature, overall consideration, rooting at present, targeting at future and also according to quake prevention and disaster relief law of PRC, as well as through earthquake evaluation, geological disasters screening, danger evaluation, houses and buildings damage verification and evaluation, resources and environment capacity evaluation, largely listening to oppions from people and cadres in quake-area,experts and other people, the overall plan was composed
Nov.25
Having attracted high-profile attention, aganist family violence work made significant breakthrough, which marked by aganist family violence law of PRC(draft)was open for public opinion. Based on the existed aganist family violence laws, regulations and decisions of more than 20 provinces, districts and cities around the nation, the NPC Standing Committee listed aganist family law into this year’s legistration plan.
Nov.27
Vice Foreign Minister met with? plenipotentiary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs on human rights, democracy and legistration Dolgov of Russian. Both sides exchanged views on Sino-Russia relations, human rights communication and cooperation between two countries.After the meeting, special representative of Minstry of Foerign Affairs Liu Hua and Dolgov exchanged views on human rights issues.
Nov.30
Member of Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited Beijing's YouAn Hospital, first one to take HIV/AIDS patients, inspected AIDS prevention and treatment work, and expressed sympathy to medical workers on the first line and grassroot workers and volunteers on AIDs prevention on behalf of CPC central committee and the State Council.
Dec.1, 2014
A batch of laws and regulations including workplace safety law, family foster regulations, major law explanations on dealing with medicine safety crimes starts to take effect.
Dec.3, 2014
On the eve of first national constitution day, Chinese president, also general secretary of CPC central committee, president of the Military Commission of CPC central committee Xi Jinping made critical remarks. He stressed that the Constitution is the highest law of the country and it embodies the will of the Party and the people. Practices prove that our Constitution is in line with the country's conditions, reality and the times... it's also the basic legal guarantee for the nation and its people to endure various difficulties, risks and tests and follow the socialist path with Chinese characteristics. Governance and administration by constitution is prior to governance and administration by rule of law. He calls for combining CPC’s guidance, people as the leader of the country and governance under rule of law, upholding the socialist road under rule of law with Chinese characteristics and protecting the authority of law. He said the Constitution Day is an effort to "bring the spirit of the Constitution deeper into people's hearts" and make it their "common belief”, further promotion of the Constitution among the public and its comprehensive implementation to boost social justice and people's livelihoods on a higher level."
Dec.4, 2014
The State Council Legislation Department seeked public opinions on Residence Permit Regulations(Draft). The draft specified that residence permit holders will enjoy equal rights including free compulsory education, equal employment as the registration holders and gradually enjoy equal rights including medium vocational education funds, employment assistance, housing protection, services for the elder, social welfare, social aids, and the qualifications for children of the residence permit holders to attend the high school entrance exam and college entrance exam.
Dec.4, 2014
The Twelfth China-Germany Human Rights Talks was held in Berlin on Dec.4. Director-General of the Department of International Affairs of the Foreign Ministry Li Junhua and commissioner of Human Rights Affairs of Germany Federal Chancellor Rodney Strasser jointly held the meeting.
Dec.5, 2014
The Supreme People's Procuratorate released three regulations on law procedures, suing and petition including People's Procuratorate’s regulations of cases on accusation and appeal listed into law procedures by law, People's Procuratorate’s regulations on judicial flaws (pilot) and People's Procuratorate’s terminal regulations on accusation and suing cases to protect litigant’s accusation and appeal rights by law and guarantee to solve people’s reasonable and legal appeal in time and justice.
Dec.8, 2014
The 33th China-Europe Dialogue on human rights was held in Brussels on December 8th. Both sides exchanged views on human rights values and discussed major issues such as international human rights cooperation and women rights.
The Chinese side presented a comprehensive introduction to China’s progress in various fields of human rights, in particular the decision adopted at the 4th Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to comprehensively promote the rule of law, hoping that Europe could view China’s progress in human rights objectively on equal and respectful principle and that the two countries could enhance mutual understanding and respect through sincere communication and carry out constructive cooperation. The Chinese side also expressed concerns over issues confronting Europe including Roma, the protection of women’s rights and other aspects.
Li Junhua said on the press conference that human rights promotion and perfection will be a long process during which we would like to hear kind and constructive advices from all sides and absorb it based on China’s national conditions. At the meantime, we can tell European friends we are confident of promoting China’s human rights and we have found the road and style in accordance with China’s national conditions on which we are extremely certain.Sabatier said both sides have deepened mutual understandings and discussed future cooperation through this dialogue.
Dec.9, 2014 --Dec.10, 2014
The second International Seminar on Human Rights and Museology was opened in Beijing this morning. Huang Mengfu, former vice chairman of CPPCC, also chairman of China Foundation for Human Rights Development and Cui Yuying, vice minister of the State Council Information Office attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. More than 40 museum heads and experts from home and abroad including Russia, Ukraine, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Egypt, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippine attended the seminar and discussed about issues like peaceful development and promoting human rights progress.
Co- hosted by China Foundation for Human Rights Development and the Museum of the War of Chinese People’s Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the two-day seminar centers on the theme “Learning from history, cherishing peace, and safeguarding human rights,” and discusses the following topics: historical lessons from World War two and their inspirations on the world’s human rights cause, maintain the fruits of the world anti-Fascist war victory, a common responsibility of nations and strengthening international exchanges, forming a joint operational system, and making use of museums to carry out education on opposing war and protecting human rights.
Dec.9, 2014 --Dec.11, 2014
Central economic work conference was held in Beijing. The conference required to uphold the bottom line and focus, improve the system, guide public opinions, pay more attention to civil affairs protection, low-income citizens, and society’s overall stability. Make better efforts on employment to guarantee the employment role which needs to give full play to market, encourage startups to help employment, improve job training quality, and strengthen the ability of government’s employment service. Poverty alleviation is significant to overall development, which calls for the whole party’s high-profile. It is necessary to make children from poor family to enjoy the fair and qualified education. Economy shall be developed properly and with characteristics. Public service and poverty alleviation and aids shall be better supported and focused.
Dec.10, 2014
China attaches great importance to improving and protecting human rights. To guarantee 1.3 billion people's right to subsistence and development has always been on the top of our priority. We have been working vigorously to promote economic and social development, elevate people's living standards in an all-round way, steadily move forward the build-up of democracy and rule-of-law, and earnestly implement the constitutional principle that the state respects and guarantees human rights. As a result, the Chinese people are now enjoying a higher level of human rights at every metric. The 3rd and the 4th plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee laid out strategic plans respectively for comprehensively deepening reform and pushing forward the governance of the state by rule-of-law, which charted the course and drew the blueprint for China's future development, and again demonstrated China's confidence and resolve to improve and protect human rights.It is China's long-standing position to carry out constructive dialogue and cooperation in the field of human rights on the basis of equality and mutual respect. We have been engaging in human rights dialogue and communication with various countries so as to enhance understanding and narrow differences. China has been playing a positive role in participating in the UN human rights endeavors and opposed to politicizing human rights issue and adopting double standards. Together with other countries, China will uphold the approach of addressing human rights issue in an impartial, objective, and non-selective way, and make positive contributions to the international human rights cause.
Dec.10, 2014
The seminar on the 66th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights opened in law school of Renmin University of China. Scholars and experts from China Society for Human Rights Study, Party School of the Central Committee of CPC, China’s Academy of Social Sciences, China’s University of Political Science, People’s Public Security University of China, human rights magazine and chinahumanrights.org attended the seminar which centers on The Universal Declaration of Human Rights--realize the common goal: UN human rights protection and China.
Vice president of China Society for Human Rights Study Chen Shiqiu, researcher of international law center of China’s Academy of Social Sciences Zhu Xiaoqing, vice researcher Huang Jinrong, vice professor of constitution and politics center of China’s University of Political Science Liu Xiaonan, professor Zhu Liyu from law school of Renmin University of China, and instructor Hua Guoyu from People’s Public Security University of China all made theme speeches on the conference. The conference also set Dec.3-Dec.10 of every year as constitution and human rights week of law school of China’s University of Renmin University.
The Ministry of Education released the notice that deploy the employment and starting up of 2015’s school graduates . The notice required school all over the country to prompt innovative education of starting up and self starting up work, expand investment for university students’ starting up. Universities shall build flexible educational system and allow the students in schools to suspend schooling for starting up.
Dec.11, 2015
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hong Lei said the people of a country is best positioned to speak about a country's human rights conditions. The US has no right to pose as referee and willfully hurl irresponsible remarks at other countries' human rights records.Our piece of advice for the US side is to earnestly reflect upon and address its own human rights issue, and stop making groundless accusation against China.
Dec.13, 2015
Central Committe of CPC, National People’s Congress, The State Council, and Military Commission of CPC central committee held the state ceremony for China's first National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims in Nanjing. Chinese president Xi Jinping attended the ceremony and made important remarks. The ceremony was presided over by Zhang Dejiang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC).
Dec.13, 2015 -- Dec.14, 2015
Xi Jinping made inspection tour to villages, farmers’ home, enterprises, science research centers and exchanged ideas with cadre and citizens during his visit to Nanjing and Zhen Jiang. He stressed to comprehensively implement the spirits of the Party's 18th national congress, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and central economic work conference, actively master and adjust to new normal of economic development and facilitate comprehensively building of a moderately prosperous society, deepening reform, governing by rule of law, harnessing the party strictly and make breakthrough of reform and opening up and social modernism.
Dec.15, 2015
The 36th Chairman meeting of the 12th NPC Standing Committee was held in the Great Hall of the People. The meeting will review the draft of Waterway law, revised draft of food security law, legislation law, and ads law, proposal of national security law(draft) raised by Chairman meeting of NPC Standing Committee, proposal of overseas NGOs regulations(draft) and Air Pollution Prevention and Treatment (Revised draft), decisions on holding the 3rd session of the 12th NPC meeting raised by NPC Standing Committee.
Dec.15, 2015
Huugjilt’s parents received the verdict of Huugjilt from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Higher People's Court. Huugjilt was absolved.
Huugjilt, who was 18 at the time, was found guilty of raping and murdering a woman in a public toilet in Hohhot on April 9, 1996. After Huugjilt was sentenced to death and executed, another alleged serial rapist and killer, Zhao Zhihong, confessed to the murder after he was arrested in 2005.
On November 20th, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional Higher People's Court announced to started a new trail for Huugjilt’s case after examining the appeal of this case.
Dec.16, 2015
Ministry of Education released opinions on study level examination of ordinary high school students and opinions on enhancing and fostering comprehensive quality of ordinary high school students. These two documents will improve study level examination of ordinary high school students and its authority and public credibility, regulate the evaluation of comprehensive quality to fulfill procedure transparent and content credible.
Dec.18, 2015
The State Council released guideline on promoting the development of philanthropy. The guideline called for opening more donation channels, emphasizing the development of Internet philanthropy. It also called on social forces such as public institutions and media outlets to provide more support for philanthropy.It urged charitable organizations to improve management standards and enhance their credibility, vowing to punish those who willfully dishonor charitable organizations and hurt their reputation.According to the guideline, the central authorities are planning an information-sharing system capable of better coordinating relief efforts for government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Dec.18, 2015
Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Hong Lei said on the regular press conference that if you want to compare the human rights records of China and the US, I can tell you that no one is perfect in terms of human rights. China has self-knowledge. We will not act like a human rights preacher in front of other countries.
Dec.22, 2015
Premier Li Keqiang signed document No.656 of the State Council to issue real estate registration rules which will take effect from March 1st , 2015.
Dec.23, 2015
Composed of 50 ministrys and commissions including the State Council Information Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs，the united conference of the National Human Rights Action Plan started mid-term evaluation of the National Human Rights Action Plan. "For two years, under the leadership of president Xi Jinping and the process of realizing the Chinese Dream, China has been working effectively toward goals set by the National Human Rights Action Plan and made considerable progress in human rights protection," said Cai Mingzhao, director of the State Council Information Office (SCIO) at an interim review meeting on the action plan.
In the past two years, Chinese people’s livelihood has been steadily improved and citizens have enjoyed more extensive civil rights and freedom. Legislation protection of human rights as well as human rights protection system of women, children, seniors, and the disable have been better improved. Human rights education training and education and international exchange have made transparent achievements.
Dec.23, 2015
China will reform its pension system for staff in government, Party bodies, and public institutions, Vice Premier Ma Kai said in a report to the top legislature on Tuesday.Ma delivered a report about China's social security system at the ongoing bi-monthly session of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, saying the reform will establish the same pension system with urban employees.
Dec.24, 2015
The Supreme people's court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and Civil Affairs Bureau jointly released major opinions on dealing with guardians violating teenagers’ rights which includes 5 parts and 44 articles. It also specified seven kinds of serious harming behaviors of guardians including sexual abuses, selling children, and violent abuses. Those guardians who violated these rules will be cancelled the right of guardian. The opinions will take effect on Jan 1st , 2015.
Dec.24, 2015
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Finance and National Health and Family Planning Commission of the PRC jointly released guidelines on better promoting disbursement and settlement of distance medical treatment fees by basic medical insurance which specifies the medical treatment fees of the retired settled in different provinces will be comprehensively fulfilled according to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Dec.24, 2015
Premier Li Keqiang presided over the executive meeting of the state council. He stressed that it is necessary to protect and enhance the civil affairs of the disable which required to help them to enter the basic pension and medical insurance system, help them and their family to find jobs and increase income, put the disable in rural places in priority, promote the construction of urban barrier-free environment and bolster the service industry of the disable.
Dec.30, 2015
National Health and Family Planning Commission of the PRC, Ministry of Education and Civil Affair Bureau jointly released the notice urging to further implement the measures and politicies of AIDS children’s medical treatment and subsistence protection and punish those departments and people who attempted to refuse the entrance of school and take medical treatment by law.
A few days ago, media exposed a eight years’ old AIDS boy was expelled out of village by more than 200 villagers in Xichong, Sichuan province.
Dec.30, 2015
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday released a regulation to better protect lawyers' rights to meet suspects and read case files.According to the rules, lawyers are now eligible to meet suspects at the investigation stage, as long as any factors that may hamper the investigation have been cleared.
Dec.30, 2015
Recently, poverty aids research center of Beijing Normal University released the report of China green poverty reduction(2014) which first put forward the defination of green poverty reduction concept based on UN Human Development Index and China green development index and created China green reduction index and purposed some policies and advice after analyzing and testing 11 extreme poor adjacent areas and 505 areas, districts and counties
