The US should no longer point the finger at the human rights record of other countries, China's foreign ministry declared on Tuesday. 

The US "needs to face up to its own human rights violations at home and abroad," said Wang Wenbin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson at a routine press briefing in Beijing responding to a media inquiry about the US Department of State 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices published on Monday.

Wang rejected the report, saying it was "full of political lies and ideological prejudice."

Wang Wenbin, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson. (File photo: CGTN)

"China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes it," he said. "As for the human rights situation in China, the Chinese people are the most qualified to speak on it."

"We have eradicated absolute poverty, developed whole-process people's democracy and established the world's largest systems of education, social security and healthcare," said Wang.

Surveys conducted by Harvard University for over a decade showed "over 90 percent of the Chinese people are satisfied with the Chinese government," he said. "In contrast, the so-called human rights report by the US points fingers at nearly 200 countries and regions worldwide regarding their human rights situations, but conveniently omits itself."

People attend a culture and tourism festival themed on Dolan and Qiuci culture in Awat County of Aksu Prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, October 25, 2019. (Photo: Xinhua)

This failure again exposed the selfish doctrines of US hegemony and how it clung to hypocritical double standards, the spokesperson said.

"If the US truly cares about human rights, it should face and properly address domestic issues such as gun violence, drug abuse, racial discrimination and violations of human dignity," he said. "It should also reflect on and rectify its interference in other countries and the human rights disasters caused by providing arms to conflict zones."

People march at a rally to protest the fatal police shooting of young Black man Amir Locke in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the US, February 5, 2022. (Photo: CFP)

"That the US has turned a blind eye to the deaths of more than 110,000 civilians in Gaza and vetoed four consecutive UN Security Council efforts toward an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the region serves as the best proof that the country is the one who ignores and tramples on human rights."

The international community has long seen through the false face of American hegemony, Wang said. 

A protester holds a sign near the White House in Washington DC, the US, on June 8, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)

What the US should do is reflect on itself, solve its own problems first and stop labeling itself a "human rights teacher," he said.

The spokesperson urged Washington to refrain from pointing fingers at the human rights situation in other countries, stop interfering in other countries' internal affairs in the name of human rights and democracy, and stop exporting more turmoil to the rest of the world.