The Logic of Change of the CPC's Human Rights Discourse Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China 70 years ago, the human rights discourse of the Communist Party of China has been constantly updated. In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the CPC spontaneously formed a collective discourse on human rights with the right to subsistence and self-determination as its core; in the 1980s, in the process of reflec-tion and refutation, the CPC paid more attention to individual rights, and gradually increased the sense of a human rights discourse with Chinese characteristics; since the 1990s, the CPC has combined the specific national conditions and the international environment to form a human rights discourse. The system of human rights discourse has been constructed in terms of the order of priority of human rights protection, path of human rights development, relationship between human rights and sovereignty, and development of the world human rights cause. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC has put forward the idea that "living a happy life is the primary hu-man right" at home and the idea of building a Community with a Shared Future for Human Beings for the world, and the discourse sys-tem of human rights with Chinese characteristics has gradually been improved. The independent variable of the change of human rights discourse of the CPC is the specific national conditions at different stages and the recognition of national identity formed on this basis. The other variable is the international environment and external rela-tions that China is facing.