Addressing the criticism of China's human rights conditions contained in the US State Department's 2006 Human Rights Report, China on Wednesday launched a broad-side on the report, voicing its disapproval of the report's stance.

Responding to questions on the report which was issued Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang stated that the annual US "once again ignored basic facts", and actively engaged in senseless distortion of China's human rights situation.

Based on its Constitution's human rights provisions, all levels of government in China have consistently aimed to spread democracy and improve the judiciary system thus benefiting the development of all Chinese citizens, Qin said.

He added that China's human rights record is nothing short of remarkable, and that Chinese people enjoy full freedom and human rights under the law.

"The US government has no right to vaunt itself as a human rights watchdog, a view held by the majority of the international community," Qin said.

The spokesman ended by calling on the US to "reflect on its own human rights problems, and stop using human rights as a pretext to interfere in other countries' affairs."

(Xinhua News Agency March 8, 2007)