China on Friday responded to US criticisms of its human rights situation by publishing its own report on human rights issues in the US.

The Human Rights Record of the US in 2013 was released by the Information Office of China's State Council, the country's Cabinet, in response to The Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2013 issued by the US State Department on Thursday.

China said in the report that there were still serious human rights problems in the US in 2013, with the situation in many fields even deteriorating.

Posing as "the world judge of human rights," the US government "made arbitrary attacks and irresponsible remarks" on the human rights situation in almost 200 countries and regions again in its just-released reports, the report says.

"However, the US carefully concealed and avoided mentioning its own human rights problems," it adds.

The report calls the US tapping program, code-named PRISM, which exercises long-term and vast surveillance both at home and abroad, "a blatant violation of international law" and it said "seriously infringes on human rights."

The US also faces rampant gun violence, according to the report. "In 2013, 137 people died in 30 mass killings - a killing involving four or more deaths - in the US."

The report also cites figures to show that frequent drone strikes by the US in countries including Pakistan and Yemen have caused heavy civilian casualties.

The US has carried out 376 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, causing the deaths of up to 926 civilians, according to the report.

"The US still faces a grave employment situation with its unemployment rate remaining high," the report says.

Rates of unemployment for the lowest-income families have topped 21 percent. The homeless population in the US kept swelling and it climbed 16 percent between 2011 and 2013, it added.

"There are also a large amount of child laborers in the agricultural sector in the US and their physical and mental health was seriously harmed," the report says.

To date, the US remains a country which has not ratified or participated in a series of core UN conventions on human rights, such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, said the report.