In a new report, China blasted the United States for having a "terrible human rights record," citing America's racial discrimination, income inequality, and government surveillance, among other social ills.

The nine-page report, carried by the official Xinhua news agency and released Friday, was issued in response to US criticism of China's human rights record.

"On June 25 local time, the State Department of the United States released its country reports on human rights practices once again, making comments on the human rights situations in many countries while showing not a bit of regret for or intention to improve its own terrible human rights record," it reads.

"Plenty of facts show that, in 2014, the US, a self-proclaimed human rights defender, saw no improvements in its existent human rights issues, but reported numerous new problems."

China said the United States is "haunted by spreading guns" and suffers from "serious racial bias… in the police and justice systems," adding that the United States suppressed the voting rights of minorities.

The Chinese report, which was mostly sourced from US media articles, also said "money is a deciding factor in the US politics, and the US citizens' political rights were not properly protected."

But the report's criticisms are not limited only to domestic human rights violations, as China also accused the United States of violating human rights in other countries in a more “brazen manner."

"In the field of international human rights, the US has long refused to approve some core human rights conventions of the United Nations and voted against some important UN human rights resolutions," it states.

"More than that, the US continued to go even further to violate human rights in other countries, including infringing on the privacy of citizens of other countries with the overseas monitoring project, killing large number of innocent civilians of other countries in drone strikes, and raping and killing locals by US soldiers garrisoned overseas."

For the past 16 years, China has released an annual report the day after the US State Department issues its own annual global human rights report. Beijing does not release rights reports on other countries.

The Chinese report was "an equal and mutually beneficial way of reciprocating" the United States, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily briefing.

In its report, the US State Department said in China repression and coercion were routine against activists, ethnic minorities and law firms that took on sensitive cases.

China has long rejected criticism of its rights' record and has pointed to its success at lifting millions out of poverty.

The US and Chinese reports came in the same week that the countries held three days of high-level talks in Washington, DC.