"Sunshine Project": Double Implications of Innovating Social Management on Drug Control and Ensuring the Human Rights of Drug Addicts

By Wu Dahua, president of Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences

Through the in-depth promotion of the “Sunshine Project” for community-based drug rehabilitation and recovery, Guizhou has embarked on a road of the rebirth of drug rehabilitation and recovery personnel, and created a new mode for development and employment-oriented drug rehabilitation. The project is a banner of China’s innovation for the social management on drug control, and it also fully respects and guarantees the human rights of drug addicts, representing a model for the continuous progress of China’s human rights cause.

"Sunshine Project” is a banner of China’s innovation for the social management on drug control.

Strengthening and innovating social management is a major strategic task determined by the Central Party Committee, with Comrade Hu Jintao as general secretary, based on the new changes and characteristics of domestic and foreign situations and starting from the overall development of the Party and country. In the final analysis, social management is just a matter of managing people, and the difficulty lies in the management on floating population. Moreover, special groups are the most important part of the floating population, while drug addicts are the most special among all special groups. Apart from management, they also need special care, which should be represented in special policies. The nation has introduced many preferential policies for the disabled, and should also do this for drug addicts. Currently, our country’s social management is at a critical period of in-depth promotion, reform and innovation. Guizhou has taken the lead in the process of strengthening and innovating social management nationwide. There are three model cities in modern social management innovation: Shenzhen, Ningbo, and Guiyang. Such an achievement is very hard-won for Guizhou, which has underdeveloped economic and social development compared with other places in the country.