Human Rights and Development: China’s Contributions Based on a Larger Concept of Human Rights

WU Wenyang

Abstract: The Western liberal view of global governance can no longer effectively address the challenges facing the world today or respond to the demands of developing countries in the fields of human rights and development. Meanwhile, the United Nations human rights and development agenda also has its limitations. Against such a backdrop, China’s path of human rights development has avoided the trap of human rights confrontation and the clash of civilizations. It has set an example of complementarity and positive interaction between human rights and development by unifying collective human rights with individual human rights and integrating the universality and particularity of human rights. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, delivered a speech at the 37th group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on China’s Path of Human Rights Development. This elevated China’s human rights development to a new historical height. Practice has proved that China’s concept and path of human rights in the new era have not only effectively promoted the development of its human rights cause, but also contributed Chinese wisdom to the global cause of human rights and development with a larger concept of human rights. Under the framework of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Global Development Initiative, China has contributed to enhancing the discourse power of developing countries in human rights and building a fairer, more just, more reasonable and more inclusive system for global human rights governance.

Keywords: human rights and development · a larger concept of human rights · global human rights governance · China’s path of human rights development