China's human rights development path widely recognized: Vice FM

CHINA's great progress in Human rights has been widely recognized, said Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Yucheng while attending the Universal Periodic Review of CHINA by the Human rights Council at the UN in Geneva.

CHINA's Human rights development path, as well as its determination to protect Human rights, are all been applauded widely, Le added.

During the ongoing 40th session of the UN Human rights Council, UN officials also expressed their appreciation for the progress of Human rights in CHINA's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

"A person in poverty cannot enjoy Human rights because the main conditions for his existence have not been fulfilled," said Nikita Zhukov, deputy permanent representative of Russia to the UN Office at Geneva.

"I think that CHINA's approach to Human rights in the last 40 years is something that a lot of countries could study, very much that could be learned from the Chinese experience," Zhukov said.

CHINA lifted more than 13 million people in rural areas out of poverty in 2018. Figures show that CHINA's poverty relief achievements have contributed more than 70 percent to global poverty alleviation work in the past 40 years.

Areas like Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Tibet Autonomous Region in CHINA are often the focus of attention when discussing Human rights as they are geographically remote, with less access to modern services.

Disposable income in Xinjiang for both urban residents and farmers is 80 times as comparedwith that of40 years ago. Human rights in these areas are supported by the government in terms of medical treatment, environment protection, traditional cultural protection, and education.

"Cuba has 11 million people, how many million people in Xinjiang? And Xinjiang is a remote region, so imagine a remote area of hundreds of millions of people have such development, not only economic which is quite important but also social development, a sustainable development," said Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta, Cuba's permanent representative to the UN Office at Geneva.

"It goes very much in UN agenda. The children go to schools. No beggars on the street. That is very touching," Cuesta added.