The Information Office of China's State Council, the cabinet, is scheduled to issue the Human Rights Record of the United States in 2006 on Thursday.

Sources with the office said this is in response to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006 issued by the U.S. Department of State on March 6.

It is the eighth consecutive year that China has issued human rights record of the United States to answer the U.S. State Department annual report, which willfully distorted and groundlessly criticized China's human rights situation.

Source: Xinhua