China to inject more force for good into human rights development in the world: FM spokesperson

BEIJING, Dec. 10 -- China actively participates in human rights affairs in the United Nations (UN) and has broad-based exchange and cooperation in human rights with other countries, said a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson here Wednesday, adding that China is willing to inject more force for good into human rights development in the world.

December 10 marks the Human Rights Day. Spokesperson Guo Jiakun made the remarks at a regular news briefing while responding to a query on China's progress in promoting and protecting human rights and China's efforts to enhance international human rights cooperation.

Guo said that this year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the UN. The UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 77 years ago and established the Human Rights Day 75 years ago, which embody humanity's ambitious dream -- the full enjoyment of human rights by all people. The vision of promoting and protecting human rights is taking deeper roots.

"China always attaches great importance to respecting and protecting human rights and pursues a human rights development path that meets the trend of the times and suits its national conditions," Guo said.

Over the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China has made remarkable achievements in national development, advanced the whole-process people's democracy, effectively and fully implemented the rule of law, enjoyed thriving cultural programs and industries, better ensured people's well-being, consolidated gains in poverty elimination, steadily improved the ecological environment, and elevated the protection of various human rights to a new stage, he added.

The spokesperson said that as a constructive player, China actively participates in human rights affairs in the UN and has broad-based exchange and cooperation in human rights with other countries.

Guo said that the Second Workshop on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is being hosted by China in Beijing. Representatives from over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, and officials and experts from the UN attended the workshop. They have had in-depth discussions and reached broad consensus on promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights.

In October 2025, the fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China Central Committee adopted the recommendations for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan. This has drawn a blueprint for China's economic and social development in the next five years and demonstrated China's vision of having mutually beneficial cooperation with the rest of the world, the spokesperson added.

"To advance Chinese modernization will also give a boost to all-round development of human rights in China," said Guo, adding that China will actively implement the Global Governance Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping and inject more force for good into human rights development in the world.

He said that some countries politicize and weaponize human rights issues, which amount to a grave challenge to global human rights governance. Certain country refuses to repent for its past crimes, such as bacterial warfare, the forced recruitment of "comfort women" and the massacre of civilians during its war of aggression. Rather, they continue to infringe on the rights of indigenous people, such as the Ainu and indigenous Ryukyuans, and adopt policies that discriminate against foreigners.

"We urge the relevant country to face up to and resolve their own severe human rights issues, take a constructive part in the international cooperation in human rights, and stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs under the pretext of so-called human rights issues," Guo said.