Hence, we should appropriately adjust the relationship between poverty eradication and human rights protection. We should realize that they are not the simple relationship of foregoer and follower, or "priority" and "general", but the relationship of complementing and supporting each other. Many undertakings closely related to human rights protection such as cultural and spiritual life, work skill trainings, equal legal status, combating discrimination and democratic participation in public decision makings can be, and should be totally taking into consideration in the work of poverty eradication. Only by organically combining the undertakings of poverty eradication and human rights protection can we breakthrough the bottleneck of poverty alleviation in our basic ideas.

(The author Zhan Zhongle is Professor of Peking University Law School, Councillor of China Society for Human Rights Studies.)