Healthy environment vital, says white paper

Environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the central government's white paper on human rights progress.

The government has worked hard to ensure that people can enjoy a good ecological environment, according to the white paper, entitled Progress in China's Human Rights in 2012.

The white paper, released on Tuesday by the Information Office of the State Council, is China's 10th human rights-themed white paper since the first was released in 1991.