White paper: ‘Progress in Human Rights over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China’

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Channel: CGTN · 2018 · News & Politics

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In the 80s and 90s, influential films such as Zhang Yimou’s ‘The Story of Qiu Ju’ made the concepts of ‘universal human rights’ gain wider awareness in the new, modern China. At the same time, the country was emerging from poverty and leading many millions of people to a more stable and prosperous life, unknown for many decades previously. This balance, between the drive for progress as a society and the protection of the individual, continues to be focus of Chinese policy. China’s State Council Information Office recently published a white paper titled ‘Progress in Human Rights over the 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up in China’.

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