Two sides of the coin
What the government report says about human rights shortcomings ...
Re-employing workers laid off from state-owned or collective enterprises remains a daunting task
Pressure on social security funds is tremendous
The irrational industrial structure has not been addressed
Work safety is inadequate and those flouting rules get off too lightly
Food safety rules are flawed
Junior civil servants lack sufficient awareness of human rights. Laws are still enforced poorly and miscarriages of justice persist
... and achievements
The promulgation of labour laws
Higher social security spending
Cheap public housing for low-paid
Preferential treatment for schools in rural, inland, western and impoverished border areas
Appeals against death sentences heard in open court; Supreme People's Court regains right to review such sentences
Fair trials are guaranteed, as are lawyers' rights to meet and defend clients, see files and collect evidence
Preferential policies for ethnic minorities
The shortcomings according to Amnesty International ...
Hundreds of thousands incarcerated without trial or access to a lawyer
Household registration system makes rural labourers in cities second-class citizens
Submission to UN lacks input from domestic NGOs and activists, and ignores arbitrary detention, disappearances, torture, killings, and the deprivation of freedom of religion and expression in Tibetan areas
Underground Christians persecuted
Abuse of human-rights lawyers, including loss of the right to practise
Falun Gong practitioners tortured, persecuted, deprived of right to life, liberty and personal security, enslaved and denied fair trials
Ban on teaching in Uygur language and destruction of Uygurs' culture and history; exploiting 'war on terror' to step up repression of Uygurs
... and the achievements
Positive engagement with the UN's Universal Periodic Review, including the timely submission of the report
Legal reforms, such as abolishing system allowing round-up and return to home provinces of people without proper papers and restoring top court's review of death sentences
Passage of Labour Contract Law