On the Theoretical System Development of Contemporary Chinese Outlook on Human Rights

WANG Xigen & ZHANG Qianqian

Abstract: Centering on the systematic construction of human rights theories, Xi Jinping’s discourses on respecting and protecting human rights creatively put forward a series of original theoretical viewpoints and academic propositions, profoundly revealing the basic connotation of a contemporary Chinese outlook on human rights and realizing all-around and deep-level innovation in the construction of a contemporary human rights theoretical system. In ontology, the four-in-one view of human rights of the political party, the government, society, and the people goes beyond the dichotomy between the political state and civil society. In element theory, the substantive view of human rights surpasses the formalist view of human rights. In category theory, the view of human rights focusing on the right to subsistence and the right to development transcends the view of human rights based on the individual’s right to freedom. In operation theory, the “development-based human rights path” goes beyond the “human rights-based development path.” In practice, the positive view of human rights based on the rule of law surpasses the negative view of human rights based on the rule of law.

Keywords: Xi Jinping's discourse on respecting and protecting human rights · human rights theory · original · contemporary Chinese outlook on human rights