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Title: China issues white paper on human rights
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URL Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/14/c_132380532.htm
Published: May 13, 2013
Author: Editor: Zhu Ningzhu
Post Date: 2013-05-14 00:04:12 by Tatarewicz
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Views: 62
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Full Text: Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012 BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government on Tuesday released a white paper detailing the progress made in human rights in 2012, stressing its achievements in improving living standards and increasing room for citizens to express their opinions. "The cause of human rights in China has entered a stage of planned, sustainable, steady and comprehensive development," says the white paper, published by the State Council Information Office under the title "Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012." Development is the key to solving all existing problems and facilitating the progress of human rights in China, the paper says. China has combined its human rights endeavors with economic, political, cultural, social and ecological construction, it said. The country has prioritized people's rights to subsistence and development and made efforts to promote the comprehensive and balanced development of their economic, social and cultural rights, as well as their civil and political rights, it notes. "After years of unremitting efforts, China has reached a higher level in terms of people's living standards, democracy, rule of law, cultural development, social security and environmental protection," says the white paper. In 2012, the annual per capita net income for both urban and rural residents increased, hefty investment was directed to poverty reduction programs, housing conditions were improved for both urban and rural residents and the state made proactive efforts to boost employment, according to the white paper. Practical measures have been taken to ensure citizens' right to know and right to be heard, according to the white paper. Deepened reform and the rapid development of information technology have given the public greater power to acquire information and express their opinions, it notes. The creation of the Regulations on Government Information Disclosure has helped establish a system for disclosing information, the white paper says. In 2012, more than 90 central government departments made their budgets and expenses for official receptions, vehicles and overseas trips known to the public. The Communist Party of China (CPC) continued to press ahead with making Party affairs public and established a spokesperson system for Party committees, the paper says. The Internet has become an important channel for citizens to exercise their rights to know, participate, be heard and supervise, as well as become an important means for the government to hear public opinions, according to the white paper. Democracy building at the grassroots level further expanded citizens' right to participate, the paper says. By the end of 2012, direct elections had been held for over 98 percent of village committees across the country, with participation reaching 95 percent. An important milestone in the development of China's human rights was the formation of a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, according to the paper. The legal system, which was completely established by the end of 2010, "ensures that the country's human rights protection is done within the framework of the law," the paper says. In 2012, "respecting and protecting human rights" was added to the amended Criminal Procedure Law. The white paper described the addition as a major progress in China's human rights and of great significance in punishing criminals, protecting the public and safeguarding citizens' right to litigation. New progress related to human rights protection has been made in the judicial field as well, according to the white paper. China has enforced strict controls over and prudently applied the death penalty and protected the rights of detainees, the paper says. In 2011, the death penalty was removed as a form of punishment for 13 economic and non-violent crimes, reducing the number of death sentences handed down by nearly one-fifth. In the same year, the Basic Standards for the Establishment of Clinics in Detention Centers were issued to improve living and medical conditions for detainees. By 2012, a detainee security risk assessment and ranking mechanism had been established in 2,391 detention centers, or 89.1 percent of the total number
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
How about that right to vote the communist party out of power and shoot all the communist apparatchiks?? Didn't think so........ The country has prioritized people's rights....political rights
-Alex Kurtagic
#2. To: X-15 (#1)
Like Americans should talk.
"Mr. Prime Minister, there is only one important question facing us, and that is the question whether the white race will survive." -- Leonid Brezhnev to James Callahan
#3. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
And we're in debt to these Chinese Communists - gimme a break. It's long past time to throw the fucking thieves in D.C. and Jew York out on their collective asses ! Eliminating their offspring should follow.
We should all be livid. Stop acting like docile, mentally castrated pussies and grow a pair. It's time to get in their face. Why should we speak in hushed tones and act all polite when we are being raped every day?
#4. To: X-15 (#1)
Allowing the unsophisticated masses to vote out a party has serious drawbacks as should be apparent in the USA where a tiny but determined Jew minority has taken control of the national political process to first and foremost use the nation's resources, particularly the military to serve the criminal Israeli state. So the Chinese are wise to choose the all-important national leadership team from capable administrators who will serve the nation, not some foreign state, probably doing as good a job as do corporate headhunters to run giant corporations as illustrated by China's dynamic growth and the proliferation of millionaires and billionaires: www.bloomberg.com/news/20...on-on-savings-growth.html China’s Millionaires Leap Past 1 Million on Growth, Savings By Frederik Balfour - 2011-06 China has more than a million millionaires as economic growth, savings and a strengthening currency helped swell their ranks by 262,000 last year, according to a Boston Consulting Group survey. Millionaire households jumped 31 percent in 2010 from the previous year to 1.11 million, the BCG Global Wealth Survey released yesterday showed. Enlarge image China’s Millionaires Jump Past One Million Golden busts of former Chinese Leader Mao Zedong are for sale at a precious metals store in Beijing, China, on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Photographer: Nelson Ching/Bloomberg China’s number of millionaire households ranks it third, behind the 5.22 million in the U.S. and Japan’s 1.53 million, according to BCG. Still, wealth in privately held businesses and property wasn’t accounted for in the survey, thereby missing a major chunk of economic assets in the mainland. “This grossly underestimates true overall wealth in China,” said Tjun Tang, a partner at BCG in Hong Kong and one of the report’s authors. The survey also excludes works of art, fine wines and yachts, a growing class of assets among China’s well-heeled. China ranks eighth globally for households with assets worth more than $100 million, with 393, according to the survey. The Asian nation’s affluent class only holds about 5 percent of its wealth offshore, said Tang, and international wealth management companies are constrained by the number of products they can offer inside China. Highest Concentration The number of millionaire households globally increased to about 12.5 million, the Boston-based firm said in a study released today. Singapore millionaires rose by almost 33 percent after jumping about 40 percent a year earlier. Singapore had the highest concentration of millionaires, accounting for 15.5 percent of the population, the study showed, followed by Switzerland with 9.9 percent, Qatar with 8.9 percent and Hong Kong with 8.7 percent. Hong Kong had the 10th most millionaire households in the world, with 200,000, as well as 223 households worth more than $100 million. The Chinese city saw 10,000 newly minted millionaire households last year. In 2005 it had 120,000 millionaires, BCG said. Wealth in the Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 11.4 percent from 2010 to 2015, raising its share of global wealth from 18 percent to 23 percent. Global wealth is projected to increase at about half that pace from $121.8 trillion to $162 trillion in the same period, according to the report. India, which has 190,000 millionaires, ahead of 12th ranked Canada, with 180,000, is expected to see wealth grow 14 percent annually over the next five years, while China will see 18 percent annual growth. The measures of wealth are converted to U.S. dollars using the exchange rate at the end of each year, boosting the value of Asian wealth as the region’s currencies strengthened in 2010. China ranks first among 22 emerging Asian economies as the country most likely to maintain steady and rapid growth over the next five years, according to the Bloomberg Economic Momentum Index for Developing Asia. To contact the reporter on the story: Frederik Balfour in Hong Kong at fbalfour@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Frank Longid at flongid@bloomberg.net en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_by_net_worth The following is a Forbes list of Chinese billionaires (converted into USD) is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine on October 10, 2012.[1] In 2011 China has over 100 billionaires which ranks third after United States and Russia. How about that right to vote the communist party out of power and shoot all the communist apparatchiks??
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