Top legislature ratifies labor conventions for workers' rights

China has once again shown its firm opposition to forced labor by taking the initiative to ratify two conventions of the International Labour Organization, Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on Thursday.

The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress, China's top legislature, ratified the Forced Labour Convention, 1930, and the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention, 1957, at its 34th session, which concluded on Wednesday.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to protecting workers' rights, and is active, serious and responsible in ratifying ILO conventions, Wang told a daily news conference, adding that China has effectively implemented other ILO conventions that it had ratified.