The 2025 China-South Africa Seminar on Human Rights was held on Thursday in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital.
Under the theme "Multilateralism and the Realization of the Right to Development," the event gathered around 50 representatives from both countries to discuss topics, including four major global initiatives proposed by China and global human rights governance, and China-South Africa practical cooperation and the advancement of the right to development.
Participants widely agreed that China and South Africa share a high degree of alignment in upholding multilateralism and promoting common development. As key members of the Global South, the two countries hold similar views on human rights issues.
Experts emphasized that the two sides must further deepen exchanges on human rights topics and jointly implement the four global initiatives, contributing to a more just and equitable global human rights governance system.
The seminar was co-hosted by the China Foundation for Human Rights Development and the Center for Africa-China Studies at the University of Johannesburg.
More than 50 experts, scholars, and representatives from social organizations, think tanks, businesses, and media outlets from both countries attended the event.
China-South Africa human rights seminar held in Pretoria
The three astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou-23 spaceship have entered the country's Tiangong space station and met with their astronaut colleagues early Monday morning, as they now begin an in-orbit crew handover.
Mission commander Zhu Yangzhu and fellow astronauts Zhang Zhiyuan and Lai Ka-ying successfully entered the station's core module Tianhe after the spaceship made a fast automated rendezvous and docked with the Tianhe module at 02:45 (Beijing Time) on Monday.
The three Shenzhou-21 crew members opened the hatch at 05:13 (Beijing Time) and greeted the new arrivals, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The six astronauts then took group pictures for the eighth in-orbit get-together in China's aerospace history.
Notably, one of the Shenzhou-23 crew members is set to undertake a year-long stay aboard the space station, double the usual duration of previous Shenzhou missions.
The Shenzhou-23 spaceship, atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 23:08 (Beijing Time) on Sunday.
Shenzhou-23 marks the 40th flight of China's manned spaceflight program and the seventh manned flight mission since the Tiangong space station entered its application and development phase in late 2022.
Shenzhou-23 astronauts enter Tiangong space station, meet Shenzhou-21 crew
