Chinese Modernization Gives Rise to a New Form of Human Rights Civilization

LU Guangjin* & WANG Xinyi**

Abstract: Respecting and protecting human rights is the fundamental spirit of modern civilization and an important component of modernization. In advancing and expanding the great cause of Chinese modernization, the CPC Central Committee with General Secretary Xi Jinping at its core has integrated Marxist views on human rights with China’s realities and fine traditional Chinese culture, drawn on the fine achievements of the world’s human rights civilization, and summarized the successful experience of uniting and leading the people in respecting and protecting human rights. It has thus forged a path of human rights development that conforms to the trend of the times and suits China’s national conditions, and creatively constructed a new form of human rights civilization. The new form of human rights civilization generated by Chinese modernization is people-centered, institutionally guaranteed, development-driven, universal in spirit, and inclusive in essence. It represents an innovative development of human rights civilization. Epitomizing the finest achievements of the world’s human rights civilization, this new form stands in marked contrast to the Western liberal human rights model and presents a new vision for the development of human rights civilization. It has not only enriched the modern connotations of Chinese civilization, but also contributed to the diversity of the world’s human rights civilization.

Keywords: Chinese modernization · put the people first · new form of human rights civilization · “two integrations” · free and well-rounded development of the people