Seeking Happiness for People: 70 Years of Progress on Human Rights in China
In 2004, China launched an emergency mechanism for urgent international humanitarian relief, under which it has provided relief to many countries. This relief includes food and other material assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and Bangladesh, and technical aid to Southeast Asian countries to combat avian influenza. It also covers funding, personnel, and in-kind support to fight diseases and natural disasters:
? in Guinea-Bissau against locust plague and cholera;
? in Mexico against A/H1N1 flu;
? in Africa against Ebola, yellow fever, plague and other infectious diseases;
? in Nepal, Japan, Iran, Haiti, Chile, Ecuador and Mexico against earthquakes;
? in Madagascar and the Caribbean countries against hurricanes;
? in the US against Hurricane Katrina;
? in the Philippines against Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda);
? in the Indian Ocean countries against tsunami;
? in Indonesia against 2018 Sunda Strait Tsunami;
? in Malaysia, Myanmar and Pakistan against floods;
? in Laos against a dam collapse in 2018;
? in Chile against mountain fires.
China assisted 12 Asian and European countries to extract about 2,100 of their citizens in its evacuation operation from Libya in 2011, and again helped 15 Asian, African, European, and American countries to extract 279 of their citizens in the evacuation operation from Yemen in 2015.
Safeguarding world peace and security. An active advocate and a faithful practitioner of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, China pursues a foreign policy of peace and peaceful coexistence with all countries, and is also a firm advocate of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security. It is committed to advancing South-South cooperation and North-South dialogue, and to narrowing the South-North gap. China has put forward proposals and initiatives and made concrete efforts to address many major international and regional flashpoints, such as the Palestinian issue, the Iranian nuclear issue, the Korean Peninsula issue, and the Syrian issue. It calls for all parties concerned to stay calm, exercise restraint, and solve disputes by political and diplomatic means.
China is also active in international cooperation on law enforcement and security. It has intensified cooperation under the framework of international and regional organizations, including the UN, the International Criminal Police Organization, and SCO, to combat terrorism, separatism, extremism, and drug-related crimes. China began to participate in UN peacekeeping operations in 1990. It now ranks first among the permanent members of the UN Security Council in terms of the number of peacekeepers dispatched, and is the second largest donor country to UN peacekeeping operations. By May 2018, China had sent more than 37,000 military and more than 2,700 police personnel to participate in about 30 UN peacekeeping missions in Sudan, Lebanon, Cambodia, Libya, and other countries and regions.
