China has, once again, foiled an anti-China attempt brewed by the United States when a "no-action " motion it tabled was passed by voting in Geneva Wednesday at the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

This is China's 11th victory over the US-led anti-China bid since 1990.

With 28 votes for, 16 against and 9 abstentions, the 53-member commission approved the Chinese motion, thus rejecting the US draft resolution against China before it was put to the vote.

In his statement before the vote, Chinese Ambassador Sha Zukang said that if the logic of the United States -- the human rights situation in China "worsened sharply" -- holds any truth, China would have already backslid to the primitive stage.

"Facts have shown that far from backsliding, the human rights situation in China has advanced significantly. Reacting from disappointment and jealousy, the US came up with this anti-China resolution," Sha told more than 500 participants at the meeting.

"The truth is that China is now under a new generation of leadership who is inspired by the ideal of building a people-centered government and is committed to do all it can in the interest of the people. Under this government, the Chinese people have successfully overcome the SARS epidemic and achieved an annual GDP growth rate of 9.1 percent," he said.

A recent United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report has acknowledged the enormous progress made by China in achieving the Millennium Goals and predicted that China could realize most of the goals in the Millennium Declaration by the year 2015, he said.

Ambassador Sha described the US claim that China lacks basic freedoms as pure distortion of facts and outright lying. "The truth is that the Chinese people enjoy freedoms of speech, assembly, association, religion and belief that are guaranteed by law," he said.

"It is particularly noteworthy that last March the National People's Congress incorporated the concept of 'the state respects and protects human rights' into the Chinese Constitution, thus marking an important milestone in China's cause for promoting and protecting human rights," he added.

He briefed the session on China's cooperation with international human rights mechanism as well as human rights exchanges and dialogues between China and more than a dozen countries.

Since the US has repeatedly refused visits by Special Rapporteur on torture and other special mechanisms of the Human Rights Commission, Sha said: "The US has no qualification to find fault with China and nitpick China's human rights situation."

Although the United States claims that the resolution this year is very mildly-worded, Ambassador Sha said: "It is only obvious that the US resolution is nothing but a sugar-coated bullet. And even masquerading as a mild resolution, its true purpose of obstinately interfering in the affairs of other countries in order to serve its domestic interests cannot be concealed."

"Appointing itself as a 'human rights defender,' the US picks on the human rights situations of other countries at will, but says nothing about its own disastrous human rights records. I cannot imagine how such a grand superpower could be so cowardly," he said.

Sha reiterated that China welcomes well-intentioned criticisms and suggestions from other countries, but the US anti-China resolution is "for the sole purpose of serving the interests of its domestic presidential election, rather than that of genuine concern for human rights."