Protection of Rights of Persons with Disabilities in China: Development in Local Laws and Regulations

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K03277
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
• Principal Investigator: Kobayashi Masayuki 独立行政法人日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 新領域研究センター, 主任調査研究員 (60450467)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: 障害法 / 中国法 / 障害者権利条約 / 人権

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focuses on the formation of the legal system for the rights of persons with disabilities in China. The influence of local laws and regulations in making the national disability laws were especially examined. The major areas of the study are anti-discrimination, education and labor which are essential in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Local laws and regulations were analyzed from the perspective of realizing these rights. It was confirmed that local laws and regulations, which are subordinate to the national laws and ordinances, and also norms and standards for various industries, as well as the CRPD, influenced the formation of higher laws. On the other hand, one of the issue in China was that in order to actually realize the rights of persons with disabilities, it seems much more necessary to let them participate in the central and local policy-making and legislative processes, which the CRPD advocates as one of its basic spirit.

Free Research Field

障害法

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

中国における１億人近い障害者の人権は、日本を含むアジア太平洋地域に影響を与えるものであり、障害法を含む知見の共有は障害者の権利確立のために重要である。これまで中国法研究における障害分野の研究、とくに地方における障害法制を考察した研究は希少であり、本研究はその間隙を埋める一助となる。