Forum discusses the Chinese dream and human rights

The two-day Seventh Beijing Forum on Human Rights opened on Wednesday, focusing on the relationship between the Chinese dream and improving human rights in the country.

"The Chinese dream is a social goal and vision containing the concepts, claims and values of human rights," said Luo Haocai, chairman of China Foundation for Human Rights Development.

He highlighted the accomplishments in the democratic legal system in 2013. Through the system, the restriction on power has been vigorously intensified and corruption has been severely punished.

Cai Mingzhao, Minister of the State Council Information Office, added that the standards of people's livelihoods have been improved with the majority enjoying the social welfare.

In 2013, China has reduced the deprived population in rural areas by 16.5 million and the registered unemployment in cities and towns remained at 4.1 percent, a relatively lower level than the 6 percent average global unemployment rate proclaimed by the International Labour Organization.

The population covered by medical insurance for urban employees, medical insurance for urban residents and new rural cooperative medical care system reached 1.32 billion by June 2014.

And the new national social old-age insurance in rural areas and the old-age insurance for urban residents have covered all the population, Cai said.

The Forum has a theme of Chinese Dream: A New Progress of the Cause of Human Rights in China and concentrates on important subtopics such as the Chinese dream and human rights, national governance innovation and human rights protection, trans-cultural international exchanges on human rights and anti-terrorism, and human rights protection.

The forum is expected to boost the continual deepening of research into human rights, and the constant improvement of human rights protection through the series of sessions.