Scientific Approach to Development and Human Rights

The Third Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China （CPC） in October 2003 put forward a scientific approach of people-centered, all-round, coordinated and sustainable development and made it a strategy for governing the country, putting it in command of all economic and social development. Since reform and opening up in 1978, China has persisted in the central task of economic development and put development in the first place. The evolution of the concept ＂development is the hard truth＂ to ＂development is a task of first importance in governing the country and invigorating the Chinese nation＂ and to the establishment of the scientific development approach reflects the deepening and growing command of the laws governing China＇s economic and social development.

Imbalance Between Scientific Technology and Human Rights and Measures to Rectify the Imbalance——Taking Geological Disasters as an Example

I. Increase in Human Activity and Occurrence of Geological Disasters ＂A geological disaster is a natural disaster that happens in a geo- logical environment. It is a geological effect （phenomenon） caused or in- fluenced by Nature and （or） human factors that leads to losses to human life, property and the environment.TM Based on their cause, geological disasters can be divided into natural geological and artificial geological disasters. Natural geological disas- ters include those caused by natural effects. These include typhoons, rain- fall, melting snow and earthquakes,

Forum on Scientific Outlook Toward Development,Human Rights

How the scientific outlook toward developmem is related to human rights in China was the theme of a forum held in Beijing by the Human Rights magazine on April 18. Attending were a dozen experts from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Central Party School, Beijing University, Renmin University of China, China Political Science and Law University, PLA Airforce Command Institute and China Society for Human Rights Studies. They discussed a range of questions including the connotation of the scientific outlook toward development, how the scientific outlook toward development is related to human rights and how it guides the development of human rights in both theory and practice, and the significance of the inclusion of human rights into China＇s Eleventh Five-Year Program for Economic and Social Development （2006-2010）.

Consider Science, Technology, Environment and Human Rights as a Whole to Achieve Scientific Development

The 18th National Congress of CPC, which concluded not long ago, put forward the ambitious goal ofcompletely building up a better-off society by 2020. Since the reform and opening of 1978, especially in the past decade, the human rights construction of China has made enormous achievements. The complete building up of a better-off society requires taking comprehensive consideration of many aspects, such as the economy, politics, culture,

Global Bioethical Prevention of the Collision of Biological and Cultural Evolution on Miserable Human Survival

With the cultural myth that science can only determine the way the world ＂is＂ （facts）, while humanities, social sciences, lawyers, philosophers, and theologians must determine the way the world ＂ought to be＂ （values）, those in position of global-, national-, and local-political power make major decisions of the use （or non-use） of scientific knowledge and technology. As a result, the human being has created a non-scientifically based cultural environment that is affecting his ability to survive. In effect, cultural evolution is occurring more rapidly than biological evolution that can adapt to the changes brought about in the physical and psycho-social environments. In a pluralistic cultural world, where each society has generated a different view of human nature and different ethical values, the use, misuse, or non-use of scientific and technological advances are derived from these unscientific views of human nature. Since all life depends on limiting interacting environmental and ecological factors, it is imperative that scientific information be used to govern how to minimize irreversible effects on life-sustaining ecological factors, but also scientific information bearing on understanding human nature ought to be integrated into a ＂global bioethics＂. While ethical values cannot be directly derived from scientific factors, it is also true that human values or our ＂ought＂ cannot be maintained in ignorance or defiance of the facts or the ＂is＂.

Scientific Frontier on Human Activities and Ecosystem Changes

'Scientific Frontier on Human Activities and Ecosystem Changes' compiled by the innovation team 'Human Activities and Ecosystem Change',one of International Partnership Programs of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),was published by Higher Education Press

Ethnic Chinese Medicine,Borderless Civilization--On the Identity of Humane and Scientific Nature of Chinese and Western Medicines

The identity of Eastern and Western cultures should include aspects such as its concepts of societal development and science and technology.Though this is related to issues like history of the culture and regional cultural psychologies,the essence lies in the identity of social values at its core.