China protects human rights of all social groups

Xinhua, July 17, 2011

China has strived to protect human rights of all social groups while honoring its National Human Rights Action Plan.

On Thursday, China's State Council Information Office (SCIO) published the Assessment Report on the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010), which says all targets and tasks set by the Action Plan have been fulfilled as scheduled.

In implementing the Action Plan, China has paid particular attention to social groups like underprivileged women, ethnic minority groups, migrant workers, the disabled, homeless children, among others, to protect the human rights of all social groups.

Over the past two years, China has earmarked 2.779 billion yuan (431 million USdollars) as a development fund for ethnic minority groups.

Dawa Tsering, a Tibetan herdsman in Damxung county of Lhasa, moved to a 70-square-meter brick-wood apartment last year. He said, "It's beyond my wildest imagination that I could have ever got such a nice apartment." Previously, his family, eight people in total, roughed it in a 30-square-meter mud house.

The renovation of his house was, for the most part, sponsored by the government.

Like his family, 46,000 households of Tibetan farmers and herdsmen moved to new houses in 2010.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in carrying out the Action Plan, strived to raise the employment rate of ethnic minority people.