The Chinese Government on June 11 publicized its second National Human Rights Action Plan, promising to address challenges and work for the happiness and dignity of every citizen.

The new plan, which addresses human rights protection work in 2012-15, was published by the State Council Information Office and follows the previous one that covered the 2009-10 period.

In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, Wang Chen, Minister of the State Council Information Office, said that the major points of the action plan are as follows: providing protection for citizens' economic, social and cultural rights; providing protection for citizens' civil and political rights; providing protection for the rights of ethnic minorities, women, children, senior citizens and the disabled; conducting education on human rights; fulfilling obligations to international human rights conventions; and participating in international exchanges and cooperation on human rights.

China will enforce preventive and remedial measures to prevent extraction of confessions by torture and collecting evidence through illegal methods, the document says.

It also pledges that no one will be forced to prove themselves guilty.

The action plan also contains targets such as helping 13 million disabled people obtain rehabilitation through the implementation of key rehabilitation programs, increasing citizens' average life expectancy so that it will reach 74.5 years by 2015 and the coverage of affordable housing will reach 20 percent.