The Impact of Central Environmental Inspections on the Perception of Respect for Human Rights and Its Empirical Analysis

To develop China’s human rights cause with a people-centered approach,we should pay close attention to the concrete experiences of the general public regarding the protection of human rights.Deepening the research on the perception of respect for human rights can contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the practical achievements of the hu man rights cause.Public environmental rights,as a new type of human rights,have become an important aspect of the development of the human rights cause in the new era.The central envi ronmental inspection,as an authoritative and interventionist vertical governance mechanism,promotes the implementation of environmental policies by local Party committees and govern ments and strengthens environmental information disclosure and public participation in environ mental matters.As a result,it contributes to the realization of public environmental rights and stimulates public perception of respect for human rights.Among them,the“look-back inspec tion is an important component of the central environmental inspection,and its implemen tation consolidates and enhances the previous inspection work.An empirical analysis based on the World Values Survey’s data for China indicates that residents in the provinces that have underg one“look-back inspections are more inclined to believe that human rights are adequately re spected compared to residents in the provinces that have not underwent such inspections.It suggests that the advancement and improvement of the central environmental inspection system promote improvements in ecological environment quality and contribute to enhancing the public percep tion of respect for human rights.

Five Years of Breakthrough in China's Human Rights Cause

In his report to the 17th Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Hu Jintao noted that the five years since the previous CPC National Congress havewitnessed important progresses in China＇s reform and opening-up undertakings and in the national endeavor to build a society of relative prosperity in all respects. These five years, he said, has also seen a ＂sound development of （China＇s） human rights cause.＂ For the first time in its history, the CPC reviewed the development of the human rights cause as an important part of national development.

Three Gorges Project Conducive To China's Human Rights Cause

The Three Gorges Project has always been under global spotlight, even when it was still being conceived in the 1980s. No wonder. The project, scheduled for completion by 2010, will be the greatest hydroelectric project ever built by the human race. Moreover, some 1.2 million people are being resettled in the course of its construction, the largest human exodus caused by any construction project ever undertaken in the world.

Development of China's Human Rights Cause in the Past 13 Years

The most recent 13 years constitute a period of paramount importance in the history of human rights development in China. These years have seen the Chinese government persistently take economic construction as the core of all work and spare no effort to strengthen the building of democracy and the legal system and promote the development of spiritual civilization. This has brought about an all-round progress of the reform and development undertakings, ensured stability of the country, and brought about a sharp increase in the national strength. A historic change has taken place in living standards, and the Chinese people have come to enjoy a better life after they succeeded in producing enough to feed and clothe themselves. To sum up, Chi-

Juvenile Protection & China's Human Rights Cause——An interview with Wang Yifu, vice-governor of Fujian

Over the past decade, Fujian Province in Southeast China, has reported remarkable results in implementing the Law on the Protec-tion of Minors. Following is the transcription of an interview conducted recently by Human Rights magazine with Vice-Governor Wang Yifu, who also is the chairman of Fujian Provincial Committee for Juvenile Protection:

Implementing a More Positive Employment Policy and Promoting the Development of the Chinese Human Rights Cause

Human rights refer to the basic rights to which every person is entitled based on his or her nature and dignlty under certain social and historical circumstances. Simply put, the term means that everyone has the right to live and develop in a free and equal manner.

The CPC as the Core of Leadership Guiding the Development of China’s Human Rights Cause

Full enjoyment of human rights, a lofty ideal pursued by the human race for a long time, is what the people of contemporary China have spared no ef- forts to attain. The Chinese people were virtually denied human fights when the ＂three large mountains＂-- imperialism, feudalism and the bureaucratic bour- geoisie - oppressed them. To achieve national liberation, independence, de- mocracy, freedom and human fights, the unyielding Chinese people fought protracted struggles for which they made huge sacrifices.

WTO Entry and China's Human Rights Cause

China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) represents a strategic step taken by the country to open itself even wider to the outside world, indicating its readiness to get involved in the process of economic globalization.

Action Plan to Promote All-Round Progress in China's Human Rights Cause——An Interview with Wang Chen,director of the State Council Information Office

EDITOR＇S NOTE： The National Human Rights Action Plan of China （2009-2010） has won favorable comments in China and abroad since its publication by the Information Office of the State Council on April 13, 2009. Here is a transcript of an interview given to our reporters by Wang Chen, director of the Office, on the Action Plan, which we hope will help our readers gain a better understanding of China＇s human rights cause and its development.

New Five-Year Program and Progress of China's Human Rights Cause——A study of the guidelines set by the Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Proposal for the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for China＇s Economic and Social Development （2011-2015）（herein after referred to as the ＂Proposed Plan＂ for short） provides a complete range of guidelines for China＇s im-mediate and long-term development.

Decisive Stage of All-round Construction of Well-off Society Is a New Opportunity for China's Human Rights Cause

The p eriod of"The 13th Five-Year Plan"for national socioeconomic development(2016-2020)is a decisive stage of completion of all-round construction of a moderately prosperous society in China,and the year of 2016 is the first annum of this decisive stage.The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC)headed by General Secretary Xi Jinping has,with a new stance and new ideas,set strategic tasks

Laws,as an Integral Whole,Promotes the Cause of Human Rights

In modem society, the rule or law is an important pattern of national governance. Realizing human rights is closely related to the rule of law. What the author intends to discuss is how to use integral thinking to understand human rights as well as the relationship between human rights and development and how to comprehend the rule of law and the promotion of human rights through the rule of law in the process of facilitating the cause of human rights.

Social Construction and the Human Rights Cause

Entering the 21st century, China is now at a new historical starting point. During the process ofgiving priority to the central task of economic construction and co- ordinating economic and social development, the work of social construction has been placed in an important position and the develop- ment of the human rights cause has also exhibited new characteristics. To respect and protect human rights and develop the human rights cause, we should pay attention to and adapt ourselves to these new characteris- tics.

The Rapid Development of the Cause of Human Rights in China

As early as in 2002, the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the China Foundationfor Human Rights Development co-sponsored an international symposium titled ＂Oriental Culture and Human Rights Development,＂ marking an important milestone for the human rights organizations of China to confidently open themselves to the world and voluntarily perform mul- tilateral cooperation. In the past tenyears, the exchanges and cooperation in human rights between China and other countries in the world have been increasingly extended and deepened, and the world human rights cause has increasingly shown a positive trend of close contact, mutual dependence and collective development for all countries.

Human Rights Education and Its Role in Promoting Human Rights Cause

＂Human rights education has, over the past decade, received increasingly great international attention.What merits special mention are those massive activities on-going in various countries to promote it, which constitute a most salient feature of the global human rights cause.

Cultural Transformations in China and Progresses in Human Rights Cause

Human rights refer to the rights that should be enjoyed by anyone as human beings. However, human beings have not only the natural at- tributes, but also social attributes, including such high-level social at- tributes as thinking capability and culture. The role of culture on hu- man beings can be seen in people＇s understandings on human rights connotation and human rights value. In fact, the different views on hu- man rights issue of various countries worldwide are linked with their dif- ferent cultures. We cannot change the differences of various countries in cultures, but we can learn about and understand the differences through cultural exchanges so as to enhance recognition on human rights issue.

On Latest Developments in China's Human Rights Cause

China＇s human rights cause has undergone a new phase of development under the reform and opening-up policy that became off icial in the late 1970s. The changes include a shift from protection of human rights by law to Constitutional protection

The Potential for Technological Advances to Promote the Human Rights Cause

Discussion and study of the relationship between technological advance and human rights development can be achieved through both their interaction and interplay. In other words, we need to research and expound on the influences of technological advances on human rights development, and vice versa. However, despite the complexity of current human rights developments, this article, given length constraints, will only generally focus on whether technological advances have a potential role in promoting human rights improvements.