"Li Baodong Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China Today is the 68th Human Rights Day. ... - Over the past 68 years, great achievements have been made in protecting the rights to survival and development. Since 2000, 1.1 billion people have been lifted out of poverty [?] globally." [How does he know? The World Bank does not use estimates of inflation faced by poor people, or their needs for expenditure. And why is he saying "poverty" rather than "extreme poverty"? More importantly, why is he using the word "poverty" to describe what seem to be largely statistics claiming there were fewer low spenders?] "Net enrollment rate in primary education in developing countries has reached 91%." [That is not the Millennium pledge, which is for completion of primary education] "Mortality rate of children under five has more than halved." [Mr Li exaggerates the official claim. He appears to confuse the fall since 2000 with that since 1990. The official estimates are 9.1% in 1990, 7.6% in 2000 and 4.2% in 2015, so not a halving. The 90% confidence range is given as 8.9 to 9.2, 7.6 to 7.7 and 4.1 to 4.6 per cent respectively. However, perhaps unhelpfully, WHO and Unicef do not translate those into probabilities that their claimed trend is accurate. https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/U5MR_mortality_rate_39.xlsx Interestingly, the one statistic which both means something specific and has reasonably good data (partly because it is easy in a procedural sense to ask about) is exaggerated by using the wrong baseline – in addition to countries generally giving the wrong impression about the Millennium and World Food Summit pledge baselines. Of course one might argue that in some respects official "poverty" claims have understated benefits to poor people (in longevity, and in the quality of goods, for example) – if one could find suitable evidence and justify the value judgements. But something is perhaps noticeable: Politicians' wrong statements, as here, may tend to exaggerate how well people are doing compared to the official researchers' information, rather than including errors in both directions, which would be more consistent with pure incompetence.] "Maternal mortality has dropped by 45%." [These statistics are known to be wild guesses, as the main World Bank statistical reports have made clear in most years since 2000.] "An additional 1.9 billion people have gained access to drinking water." [Misleading, since the statistics are known not to be on quality. People generally have access to water, which is why they are still people and not dead. The idea that this is "drinking water" seems to imply, falsely, that the water is safe. Unsurprisingly, people monitoring water supply who are concerned with the welfare of real people do not, as far as I know, use a category so vague as "access to drinking water". The Millennium pledge is on "safe" and "affordable" water.] "The Internet is accessible to 3.5 billion people. In September last year, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which outlined 17 sustainable development goals. An ambitious blueprint aimed at "leaving no one behind" and achieving "zero poverty", the 2030 Agenda will bring benefits to mankind." [The 2030 Agenda is not as much of an advance on commitments of the 1940s onwards as may appear. It is a backwards step compared with rights to food, shelter, and so on. Through its wrong statements, the Chinese government is leaving many people behind.] Li Baodong Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China China is Committed to a Human Rights Development Path With Chinese Characteristics 10 December 2016 http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjbxw/t1423058.shtml