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Seminar implements spirit of human rights

A seminar on implementing the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and sticking to the Chinese path of human rights development was held in Beijing on Tuesday. Padma Choling, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and president of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, said at the seminar that human rights researchers across the country should use the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC to guide all aspects of China's human rights theoretical research and discourse system development, strengthen the self-consciousness and confidence in following China's path of human rights development, and tell the stories of China's human rights well in the new era. More than 100 experts and scholars in human rights fields attended the seminar.

Journalism students learn from experience

Students majoring in journalism and communication across the country will soon have access to a new season of 32 video lectures in which veteran media professionals share their inspiring career stories. The launch ceremony for the third China Journalism and Communication Lectures was held at Communication University of China in Beijing on Tuesday. Since 2020 when the program was launched, 98 veteran media professionals have participated.

Former political adviser to get life in jail for graft

Liu Guoqiang, former vice-chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was sentenced to death on Tuesday with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes of about 352 million yuan ($54.2 million). The Tianjin First Intermediate People's Court also deprived Liu of his political rights for life and confiscated all of his personal property. After the two-year reprieve for his death sentence, his prison term could be commuted to life in prison without further reduction or parole, which means he will remain behind bars for the rest of his life.

China Daily