On June 11, the Chinese Government issued the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2026-30), marking a new starting point for the development of the country's human rights. This is the fifth national human rights action plan China has issued and is based on past achievements, the constitutional principle of respecting and protecting human rights, and international human rights conventions. The action plan also takes into account the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), a comprehensive blueprint for China's economic and social development.

China's current stage of human rights development demonstrates the country has forged a path of human rights development that both conforms to global trends and suits its national context. In recent years, surveys released by Gallup, Ipsos and other internationally well-known institutions have shown that the general level of happiness among people in China is remarkably high, a testament to the achievements of China's human rights cause.

China's human rights cause upholds the principal position of its people. The Chinese Government regards the happiness of the people as the greatest human right. From eradicating absolute poverty to establishing the world's largest education system, social security system and healthcare system, China consistently focuses on serving the interests of its people, ensuring that the fruits of modernization benefit all people more extensively and equitably.

The Chinese Government understands that without sustained development, human rights protection would be empty rhetoric. For this reason, China has always regarded the rights to subsistence and development as the primary basic human rights, and placed the highest priority on development in its governance. On the basis of guaranteeing the rights to subsistence and development, China promotes the coordinated development of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as well as environmental rights.

With different national conditions, histories, cultures, social systems and levels of economic and social development, the world's countries are bound to require unique paths of human rights development. China has therefore not blindly copied the Western model of human rights development and does not attempt to export its own model. China follows the global trends toward peace, development, cooperation and mutual benefit, rejects the practice of politicizing human rights and applying double standards, and calls on all countries to respect the diversity of paths to human rights development.