The Conclusion:

The human rights protections will not any more remain on the level of the State policy, and will no more be the political declaration of the Party in power only. Under the ideological guidance of "the human-oriented", the protection for the human rights has been lifted from the reports and documents to the level of the legal system, and changed from the slogans to the legal provisions written in black and white. This profound change makes it clear that a legal system of the human rights protection with Chinese characteristics has gradually come into being.

(The author Yang Songcai is Professor and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Human Rights at Guangzhou University. )