张永和， 1956 年出生，西南政法大学教授、博士生导师，人权研究院执行院长、《中国人权评论》主编。中国人权研究会常务理事。出版与人权有关的专著有《权利的由来》《中国大众人权观念调查》《临潼信访》《武侯陪审》《大邑调解》等。在《中国法学》《法学研究》《法学》《政法论坛》《法律科学》《现代法学》和人民日报、光明日报等报刊上发表与人权相关论文30余篇。
Zhang Yonghe is professor of law and executive director of the Center for Human Rights Education and Research, Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He is also the standing director of China Society for Human Rights Studies. Professor Zhang is a prolific writer on China and human rights. His notable monographs include The Origin of Human Rights and Surveying the Chinese Public’s Ideas on Human Rights. Additionally, he has contributed some 30 articles to journals and newspapers including China Legal Science, Chinese Journal of Law, Law Science Magazine, Tribune of Political Science and Law, Science of Law, Modern Law Science, The People’s Daily, and Guangming Daily.

“全球治理的中国方案”丛书（中、英文版），全面、深入地向国际社会阐释中国的全球治理观，展现中国作为一个负责任的大国，积极参与全球治理，努力为全球治理贡献中国主张、中国智慧、中国方案，并以踏实稳健的步伐，推动构建合作共赢、公正合理的全球治理体系和治理机制。
在充分保障人权、积极应对人权挑战问题上，中国坚持和主张走出一条适合本国国情的人权发展道路，坚持人权普遍性原则与现实国情相结合，坚持将生存权和发展权作为首要人权。在不断提高本国人权保障水平的同时，中国主张世界各国携手共同面对全球性人权挑战，在对话协商、共建共享、合作共赢、交流互鉴、绿色低碳基础上，共建人类命运共同体，建设一个持久和平、普遍安全、共同繁荣、开放包容、清洁美丽的世界。
In China and World Human Rights Protection, Chinese human rights scholar Zhang Yonghe presents China’s perspectives on, approach to, and considerable progress achieved in improving, human rights. China firmly believes in the primacy of the right to subsistence and development, trying to reconcile its national exigencies with the demands of universal human rights. As the second largest economy of the world today, China is committed to protecting rights that secure the people’s baseline, the right to work, the right to property, and the right to education, having formed its own set of ideas and policies on the development of human rights. Moreover, China has also actively fulfilled its international human rights obligations through partnership with other countries over the past few decades. It is poised to make greater contributions to world human rights protection.

Unquestionably, countries should in all cases be committed to the ideal that people deserve to enjoy their full rights as human beings. But, what is arguably more important than such sincere idealism is their translation into something substantial for the people. Putting human rights in place is by no means as simple as writing words into legal texts. With reference to China, people in the past suffered under the oppressive forces of imperialism, feudalism, and crony capitalism. In order to upend the crushing weight of these “three big mountains,” the Chinese people struggled for more than a hundred years in pursuit of their rights. This eventually brought about independence, liberation, and a significant improvement in terms of human rights in China. However, this does not imply that a comprehensive guarantee of human rights is possible overnight. Poverty cannot be eliminated within a short period of time, and the socioeconomic resources necessary for guaranteeing human rights remain scarce. Given the historical conditions, subsistence remains the top priority. Therefore, accelerating development to guarantee subsistence is necessary for China. Having been poor and backward for an extensive period of time, both the right to subsistence and the right to development remain the top priorities for a developing country like China, and have become the “primary rights” in the human rights language of China. The first three decades of exploration and development since the founding of New China has laid a solid foundation for protecting this right. The subsequent four decades of reform and opening-up injected new impetus into this project, creating the material conditions to support it and bringing about remarkable growth. On the basis of securing the right to basic living standards and social security, China maintains a focus on protecting rights that secure the people’s baseline: the right to work, the right to property, and the right to education. In this way, China’s achievements in humans rights work have been remarkable.

Chapter One China’s Approach to Primary Human Rights
1.1 China’s Approach: The Right to Subsistence and the Right to Development
1.1.1 From Old China to New China
1.1.2 From Subsistence to Development
1.2 Strengthening the Baseline of Chinese Human Rights
1.2.1 Protecting the Right to a Basic Standard of Living
1.2.2 Protecting the Right to Social Security
1.3 Guaranteeing the Rights to Work, Property, and Education
1.3.1 Guaranteeing the Right to Work
1.3.2 Safeguarding Property Rights
1.3.3 Guaranteeing the Right to Education

Chapter Two How China Protects Civil and Political Rights

2.1 Notable Progress in Civil Rights Protection
2.1.1 Caging Power and Combating Corruption
2.1.2 Protecting Personal Rights
2.1.3 Guaranteeing Freedom of Religious Beliefs
2.2 New Approaches to Guarantee the Right to a Fair Trial
2.2.1 Judicial Transparency
2.2.2 The Smart Court System
2.2.3 Judicial Services
1.4 Protecting Political Rights
1.4.1 Guaranteeing Participation and the Right to Know
1.4.2 Protecting the Rights to Expression and Supervision
1.4.3 Promoting Democracy at the Grassroots Level

Chapter Three China’s Approach to International
Human Rights

2.3 Fulfilling International Human Rights Obligations
2.3.1 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
2.3.2 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
2.3.3 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
2.3.4 Convention on the Rights of the Child and the two Optional Protocols
2.3.5 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
2.3.6 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2.4 Promoting International Human Rights Cooperation
2.4.1 Cooperation and Exchange at the Official Level
2.4.2 Exchange at the Non-Governmental Level

Chapter Four China’s Contribution to World Human Rights

4.1 Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
4.1.1 Idea and Meaning
4.1.2 Vision
4.1.3 Significance
4.2 Human Rights in Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
4.2.1 Goal of World Human Rights Protection
4.2.2 Shared Interests
4.2.3 Co-consultation
4.2.4 Shared Responsibility
4.3 The Practice of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
4.3.1 The Belt and Road Initiative
4.3.2 South–South Cooperation on Human Rights