Mr. Xue Jinwen, Secretary of Party Committee of Nankai University and Director of Center for Study of Human Rights

Mr. Xue Jinwen, Secretary of Party Committee of Nankai University and Director of Center for Study of Human Rights, told about the Contribution of Development of China’s  Higher Education to Human Rights Undertaking.

He said, Over the past decade, China's higher education has experienced a rapid development. China's gross enrollment rate of higher education rose from 9.8% in 1998 to 23% in 2007. The Population of students in colleges grew from 3.4 million to 18.85 million, ranking the first in the world. The development of China's higher education has far-reaching implications not only for China's future economic and social development, but also for the development of China's human rights cause. It is better to meet the citizens with the right to education, the right to subsistence and the right to development. It also provides a more realistic basis for the realization of the political rights of citizens. At the same time, the Chinese Government is aware of the impact of the income difference of citizens enjoying the right to education, and has taken a series of positive measures to guarantee that all citizens have equal access to higher education.