A Study Of China’s Human Rights Construction Under The Human-oriented Concept

The Communist Party of China(CPC) has been exploring and struggling unremittinglyfor the Chinese people to enjoy full human rights in the past90years. Born in1921, CPCbegan a struggle for the sovereignty of the Chinese people. The founding of New China in1949opened a new era of human rights in China. In2004,"respecting and safeguardinghuman rights by the state" put into the Constitution helped human rights get the highest levelof protection. In this process, it has three stages. At first, the Chinese government avoidsmentioning the human rights; then, it was called "a great term"; at last,"human rights was putinto the Constitution". Each node is a turning point in the history of human rights in China. Itmarks human rights has becoming a discourse, more researches can be derived from it and abroader human rights situation can be created. This process has gone through ups and downs,taking the road of human rights of Chinese style.If we want to retrospect the occurrence and development of a behavior, we have toretrospect its thinking. Obviously, human rights of Chinese style was dominated by humanrights thought of Chinese style. The Chinese people express their human rights in accordancewith their own way of thinking and cultural traditions human-orientation. Although the term"human rights" appeared in China relatively late, we had already carried out the protection ofhuman rights in practice. We have been using "human-orientation" to consider the party’sgoverning ability and the degree of social democracy. In a sense, even though the term"human rights" has little touches, the practice of revolution, construction and reform, theconstruction of China’s human rights has been carrying out. It helps to make the society morejust and harmonious, make the people’s lives with more dignity and more happiness.The first chapter explains people-orientation is a concentrated expression of the conceptof human rights in China. People-orientation has become the thought of Chinese human rights,which has a historical necessity to guide Chinese human rights construction. On the one hand,it covers the basic concept of the western modern human rights. The basic concept of thehuman rights of freedom, equality and humanitarian can be reflected, thus, human rights ofChinese style are formed. On the other hand, it gives a sublation to the traditional Chinesepeople-based thought, which achieves a modern transformation. It can be said that it has bothbasic elements of the western concept of human rights and traditional Chinese people-basedthought.The second chapter discusses the difference between Chinese and the western conceptunder the concept of human-orientation. In pursuit of human rights, China and west bothpursued freedom and equality, and both encountered a setback. But due to historical traditions,political culture and social background, there was a huge difference in the concept of humanrights between them. Even if in the framework of the concept of people-orientation, there is adifferent understanding and focus. For example, who is oriented? The answer of the westwould be individual, whereas China be collective; what is oriented? The Westerns emphasize on civil and political rights whereas China highlights the economic, social, andcultural rights of the citizens, and so on.Chapter three tries to comb and summarize the historic achievements of the human rightsconstruction under the guidance of the concept of human rights in China in the past60years.Economical rights are increasingly protected; political rights are gradually realized; culturalrights are constantly enriched and developed; value and dignity of the individual are respectedunprecedentedly. Of course, when we show the great achievements of China in60years to theworld, we still has some problems, such as the big gap of development level of the materiallife; civil liberties, democratic rights still to be further strengthened; existing cultural level cannot meet the requirements of civic and cultural life; respect and protection of the rights andinterests of every citizen to be improved.Chapter four is how to adhere to the concept of people-orientation to strengthen theconstruction of China’s human rights. There still exist problems in construction of humanrights. Starting from this, we further explore the realistic path to strengthen the construction ofhuman rights: to make people-oriented concept deeply rooted, and promote of Chinese humanrights awareness; to base on economic development, and continue to improve the material lifelevel of members of society; to promote political reform constantly to achieve the orderlydevelopment of the construction of socialist democracy; to promote cultural prosperity andcontinue to meet the requirements of the spiritual life of the citizens; to meet every legitimateand regular interest demands.The conclusion sums up the experience of the Chinese human rights from the analysis ofthe historical development and the realistic path. This includes: the simultaneous developmentof the cause of human rights and China’s politics, economy, and culture; in the opening up&exchange, maintaining common ground in the understanding of human rights; adhering to thehuman-orientation and promoting the cause of human rights in positive interaction of thereform, development and stability.Looking at the development of China’s in the past60years, we see the glorious majesticpicture of development of China’s human rights. From the perspective of human-orientation,we examine the historical and actual situation of the development of human rights in China, itshows the world the gradual progress of China’s human rights history. Although it isinsufficient, in the process of combing the construction of China’s human rights, it isconducive for us when walking towards the world. We can take the initiative to grasp thehuman rights discourse, highlighting the practical significance of human-orientation.