BEIJING -- Six national education and training bases on human rights were set up in China recently, bringing the total number of such bases to 14.

The institutions newly authorized to serve as national education and training bases are human rights research centers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Northwest University of Political Science and Law, Central South University, Southeast University, and Beijing Institute of Technology.

This was an important move to implement the National Human Rights Action Plan (2016-2020), according to a circular jointly issued by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Ministry of Education.

First launched in 2011, those bases are designed to promote the development of human rights undertaking by strengthening theoretical research and personnel training, as well as exchanges and cooperation.