Latest action plan represents major advances

Editor's note: China issued The 3rd National Human Rights Action Plan (2016-20) last week. Since the United Nations called for countries to formulate plans, 37 countries have produced 49 plans. Since its first plan in 2009, China has raised public awareness of human rights protection. Following are excerpts of two experts' comments on the plan, compiled by Li Yang.

Chang Jian, deputy-director of the Human Rights Research Center in Nankai University in Tianjin

The third action plan sets human rights objectives to achieve by 2020. It is of great importance to usher China into a new phase in improving its human rights conditions.