With the change and development of the concept of human rights,the thinking about the relationship between human rights and development is becoming more and more deeply.Under this background,the author profoundly realizes that both recognizing the economic development as the first priority like some developing countries do and considering the human rights to be the most important thing as most developed countries do are unilateral and harmful to the social progress.Human rights and development are interdependent and mutually promoting each other.This paper introduces the three main viewpoints of the relationship between human rights and development.Based on the changes of the attitudes of the UN and China to the relationship between human rights and development,this paper holds that though it is a great progress for the Chinese govement to understand that human rights and development are interdependent,there are still lots of difficulties in realizing their mutually benefiting relationship in reality.These difficulties are due to the lack of professionals who enjoy good understandings of the rules for social development and are capable of practicing human rights theories.Therefore,the authors suggest that the promotion of human rights education is instrumental to the development and progress of human society.