Chinese human rights experts said Saturday that the people-oriented scientific view of development not only enriches the idea of right to development, but also creates a favorable social environment for China to realize other aspects of human rights.

Luo Yanhua, director of China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) and associate professor of elite Beijing University, told Xinhua that the people-oriented concept takes the right to development as a supreme goal and the ideas contained in it are to respect and ensure human rights.

Luo said human-oriented development strategy has changed China's development mode, which is conducive to realize Chinese people's development right and other aspects of human rights.

Chen Zhishang, standing director of the CSHRS and professor of Beijing University, said individual development and group development often contradict with each other.

China always upholds that individual development replies on the society and individual rights and group rights should be properly combined to ensure and respect both the individual's and the group's rights, Chen said.

Wang Mingdi, standing director of the CSHRS and deputy director of the China Prison Society, said China's correction system takes humanitarianism as the guiding spirit, which also embodies the human-oriented idea.

With Chinese legal system getting more and more mature, humanitarian policy toward criminals has developed to ensure termers' rights, as showed in China's Prison Law issued in 1994 which includes termers' legal, social, cultural, political and economic rights, said Wang who has studied prison-related issues for many years.

Lin Zhe, professor of the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and a human rights scholar, said the problems of coal mine explosions have become a hurdle for China's human rights development and the process of building China into a harmonious society.

Lin, who studied such social problems for long, said harmonious society means a high level of human rights achievement and China is struggling to achieve social harmony so as to realize an overall human rights development.

Dec. 10 this year is the 57th anniversary of the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948.

Source: Xinhua