Enhance Human Rights Studies and Construct China's Autonomous Knowledge System of Human Rights

Baimachilin

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, stressed that we should adhere to the “two integrations” (namely, integrating the basic tenets of Marxism with China’s specific realities and fine traditional culture), root ourselves in Chinese soil, carry forward the Chinese cultural heritage, and strengthen the academic foundation. We should accelerate the building of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and formulate original concepts and develop systems of academic discipline, research and discourse, drawing on China’s rich experience of advancing human rights. In the face of changes of a magnitude not seen in a century, in the historic process of advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts through Chinese modernization, we should and must strengthen our theoretical self-consciousness and confidence in the path of Chinese modernization. We need to enhance human rights research, develop the human rights theoretical system and paradigm that are based on Chinese realities and express Chinese voice, and an independent Chinese knowledge system for human rights.

I. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Discourses on Respecting and Protecting Human Rights Provide the Fundamental Guidelines for Building China’s Independent Knowledge System for Human Rights

II. The Contemporary Chinese Outlook on Human Rights is the Main Part in the Building of China’s Independent Knowledge System of Human Rights

III. China’s Millennia-old History of Human Rights Provides Abundant Resources for Building China’s Independent Knowledge System of Human Rights

IV. Connecting China and the Rest of the World from a Global Perspective is an Important Dimension of Building China’s Independent Knowledge System of Human Rights