Xi: Human rights central to shared future goal

President Xi Jinping said on Monday that China pursues people-centered human rights, and stands ready to work with other countries to promote fairer, more reasonable and more inclusive global human rights governance to build a community with a shared future for mankind.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark in a congratulatory message to a symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights held in Beijing on Monday, global Human Rights Day.

Xi hailed the declaration, which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Dec 10, 1948, as a crucially important document in the history of human civilization, and recognized its profound impact on the development of human rights undertakings around the world.