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    Conclusion

    From a small boat on the Nanhu Lake by southeastern China's Jiaxing City, to a giant flagship leading China's national rejuvenation, the CPC has a glorious century. Unruffled by constant change, it has remained committed to building a bright future for the Chinese nation. From revolution, economic development and reform into the new era, it has never forgotten its original aspiration and founding mission.

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    VII. Adding Diversity to the Concept of Human Rights

    For China, there are no ready models to copy in respecting, protecting and developing human rights. China must proceed from its prevailing realities and go its own way. Applying the principle of universality of human rights to China's national conditions, the CPC has opened a new path of human rights protection, and added diversity to the concept of human rights with its own practices.

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    VI. Advancing Human Rights Around the World

    The CPC is committed to bringing freedom and happiness to the Chinese people, and peace and progress to the whole of humanity. Its achievements prove that it is a peace-loving political party committed to progress, justice and human rights in the world.

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    V. Protecting the Basic Rights of Citizens in Accordance with the Law

    The CPC has integrated law-based governance with human rights protection, promoting both throughout the whole process of socialist rule of law. In advancing law-based governance, sound legislation has created a legal system to protect human rights, strict law enforcement has fostered a good law-based environment for human rights protection, and judicial justice has provided an effective channel for judicial remedy in the field of human rights.

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    IV. Making Comprehensive Progress in Human Rights

    The CPC upholds the rights to subsistence and development as the primary and basic human rights, and works hard to ensure and improve people's wellbeing through development. The Party makes every effort to achieve comprehensive progress in human rights and ensure the well-rounded development of all the people.

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    III. Ensuring the People's Position as Masters of the Country

    Since the founding of the PRC in 1949, the CPC has established systems that respect China's actual conditions and ensure the people's principal status as masters of the country. The main ones are people's congresses, which form the fundamental political system of China, CPC-led multiparty cooperation and political consultation, regional ethnic autonomy, and grassroots self-governance.

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    II. The Principle of Respecting and Protecting Human Rights Embedded in Governance

    As the fundamental law of a country, the Constitution is a written guarantee of the rights of citizens. Under the leadership of the CPC, China has established a Chinese socialist legal system with the Constitution at the core, thus laying a solid legal foundation for ensuring human rights.

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    I. For People's Liberation and Wellbeing

    The Chinese nation is a great nation boasting a civilization spanning five millennia. China once led the world in composite national strength over a long period of time. But beginning in the middle and latter half of the Qing Dynasty (1636-1911), and especially after the Opium War in 1840, China plunged into stagnation due to a corrupt, incompetent government and ever growing Western aggression.

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    Foreword

    The year 2021 marks the centenary of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Over the past century, the CPC has invested a huge effort in human rights protection, adding significantly to global human rights progress.

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