China protects human rights of all social groups

Xinhua, July 17, 2011

Aniwar Imin, director of the human resources and social security bureau of Xinjiang, said that Xinjiang-based businesses owned by the central government employ 210,000 local people, 63 percent of all their staff.

China has worked to safeguard women's rights to employment and equal access to economic resources. According to the All China Women's Federation, micro-finance loans worth 16.6 billion yuan (2.56 billion USdollars) had been issued by October 2010 to help 410,000 women to start their own businesses.

China has relaxed restrictions on the disabled people for applying for drivers' license by introducing a revised "Regulations on Application and Use of Driver's Licenses" in 2009.

The revised regulations allow, for the first time, Chinese who are able to sit by themselves despite their paralyzed limbs to acquire a license for adapted vehicles.

According to official statistics, there are 28 million people with paralyzed limbs in China, and many are longing to drive but had been deprived of the right. Some have driven anyway, hoping to avoid being caught by the police.

A man with disability surnamed Zhao, who is taking driving classes in Beijing, said, "The idea of getting a driver's license makes me excited, which means I could go to farther places. I feel more decent sitting in a car than in a wheelchair."

China has also made headway in getting every orphans a roof overhead and getting children of migrant workers to classrooms.

In April 2009, the SCIO published the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010). It is China's first national plan on human rights.