Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has firmly believed in the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics, actively developed people's democracy in the whole process, so that all aspects of the system and national governance can better reflect the will of the people, protect the rights and interests of the people, and inspire people's creativity.
The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "pay more attention to improving the democratic system and enriching democratic forms."
The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized "expanding the people's orderly political participation and ensuring that the people implement democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision in accordance with the law."
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China focuses on the Party’s long-term rule and the long-term stability of the country. It has made a general plan for upholding and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and focuses on deploying the fundamental, basic and important systems that support the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we must continue to promote the construction of people's democracy throughout the process, and reflect the people's mastery of the country in a concrete and realistic manner in the Party's policies and measures to govern the country, concretely and realistically in the work of the Party and state organs at all aspects and levels, and concretely and realistically in the work of realizing the people's yearning for a better life.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China has achieved new development. The picture shows the fifth session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opening in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 4, 2022. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Lin/photo
Scientific and efficient institutional design reflects the will of the people and protects the rights and interests of the people -
At the beginning of 2020, the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic was a big test of the quality of the system.
Strengthen the legal guarantee of public health, timely formulate special legislative and law revision work plans, set up a special team to promote the formulation and revision of multiple laws in batches, respond to risks and challenges with the rule of law thinking and rule of law methods, and effectively protect people's health.
The fifth meeting of the 13th National People's Congress held on March 5, 2022 is the first meeting held after the National People's Congress rules of procedure have been revised on March 11, 2021. The legal bill review process is optimized, the conference procedures are further standardized, the work information platform makes it more convenient for representatives to perform their duties, and the conference is more open and transparent...
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the People's Congress system has been continuously improved. The Party Central Committee promotes the improvement of the mechanism for members of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress to contact the People's Congress deputies at the same level, opens up channels for reflecting and expressing public opinion, and supports and guarantees that the People's Congress deputies perform their duties in accordance with the law. Enrich the content and form of NPC deputies in contact with the people, give full play to the role of NPC deputies, and ensure that the people have their calls and I respond. The proportion of front-line workers, farmers, professional and technical personnel representatives among the National People's Congress deputies has increased. Optimize the structure of the members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and special committees, and improve the organizational system, work system, and deliberation procedures of the National People's Congress. Improve the system of reporting to the National People's Congress at the same level before major decisions are made by governments at all levels. Adhere to correct supervision, effective supervision, and supervision in accordance with the law, and support the National People's Congress in performing its supervision responsibilities.
"Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party's Centennial Struggle" points out that the Party upholds and improves the system of the people's congress, supports and guarantees the people's exercise of state power through People's congress , supports and guarantees the National People's congress exercises legislative power, supervisory power, decision-making power, appointment and removal power in accordance with the law, decisively investigates and deals with canvassing votes and bribery cases, safeguards the authority and dignity of the People's congress system, and gives full play to the role of the People's congress system.
The institutional arrangements to gather wisdom and strength to stimulate people's creation -
On June 23, 2020, the 12th meeting of the 13th Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference used the Internet CPPCC research form to conduct joint consultations with local governments for the first time in the Standing Committee meeting. The fourth-level CPPCC member directly participated, and the connection point extended to the village. Many members and grassroots comrades spoke on the spot through remote connections... showing the breadth and vitality of consultative democracy .
The multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China is a basic political system of China .Under the common banner of people's democracy, the Communist Party of China and various democratic parties have long coexisted, supervised each other, shared honor and disgrace, forming a new party system with distinctive Chinese characteristics and significant advantages.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China has achieved new development. The "Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party's Centennial Struggle" points out that the Party upholds and improves the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, improves the implementation of special supervision of the implementation of major decisions and deployments by the central government of democratic parties, and directly makes suggestions to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, strengthens the construction of the special consultation body system of the People's Political Consultative Conference, promotes the extensive and multi-level institutional development of socialist consultative democracy, and forms a consultative democracy system with Chinese characteristics.
The Party Central Committee issued opinions on strengthening the construction of socialist consultative democracy, systematically planned the development path of consultative democracy, and promoted party consultation, NPC consultation, government consultation, CPPCC consultation, people's organization consultation, grassroots consultation and social organization consultation, which greatly enriched the forms of democracy, broadened the channels for democracy, and deepened the connotation of democracy.
Implement the rural revitalization strategy, build a safe China, respond to population aging, ensure the quality and safety of agricultural products, and promote employment in ethnic areas through multiple channels... All parties, groups, people from all ethnic groups and all walks of life play a representative role among the masses in the sector. By putting forward proposals, inspections, special research, etc., we conduct extensive consultations on major national policies and important issues in various fields of the economy and society, and put forward opinions and suggestions.
takes the Plenary Session of the CPPCC as the leader, focuses on the Standing Committee meetings and special consultation meetings, and takes the biweekly consultation symposium , online political consultation activities, counterpart consultation meetings, proposal handling consultation meetings, etc. as the norm. The ways of consultation and political consultation are continuously broadened, so that the effect of widely accepting opinions, seeking good strategies, and gathering consensus is more obvious.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has held or entrustd relevant departments to hold more than 170 party consultation meetings. The central and non-party members of various democratic parties conducted in-depth investigations and put forward more than 730 written opinions and suggestions, many of which have been transformed into major national decisions.
Listen to the voice of the people and build a solid foundation for democracy. On March 8, 2022, the Fifth Session of the 13th National People's Congress held the second "Representative Channel" interview activity. This is an interview with the reporter through online video at the branch venue. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yin Gang/photo
seeks the greatest common divisor and draws the largest concentric circle.
A series of institutional arrangements protect the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in all aspects and in the entire chain, and effectively ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs.
- Adhere to consolidating grassroots regimes, improve grassroots democratic system , improve the system of disclosure of services, and protect the people's right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise. The people participate widely and directly in the management of social affairs through villagers' committees, residents' committees, staff representative meetings, etc. grassroots mass autonomy system with urban and rural (residential) people's autonomy as the core, democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision as the main contents are basically established and continuously improved. The grassroots mass autonomy system is fully vibrant.
—In accordance with the principles of upholding the Party’s overall leadership, adhering to the people-centered approach, adhering to optimization, coordination and efficiency, and adhering to the comprehensive rule of law, comprehensively deepen the reform of the Party and state institutions, and achieve systematic and holistic reconstruction of the functions of the Party and state institutions.
- Adhere to and improve the system of regional ethnic autonomy of , unswervingly follow the correct path of solving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics, insist on making a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation the main line of the Party’s ethnic work, establish the Party’s strategy of governing Tibet and Xinjiang in the new era, consolidate and develop equal, united, mutual assistance and harmony in socialist ethnic relations, promote the common unity, struggle, common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups, and effectively implement the system of regional ethnic autonomy.
——Adhere to the Party’s basic policy on religious work, adhere to the direction of sinicization of our country’s religion, and actively guide religion to adapt to socialist society .
——Improve the pattern of the united front work, strive to seek the greatest common divisor, draw the largest concentric circle, and gather the tremendous power to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
—Focus on enhancing political nature, advanced nature and mass nature, promote reform and innovation in mass work, and better play the role of people's organizations and mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and the Women's Federation.
——To protect people’s right to survival and development is the first priority to promote the comprehensive development of human rights.
Attachment is done in a body and in an orderly manner.
In August 2020, the first "online advice" in the history of the five-year plan was compiled and received millions of opinions and suggestions from netizens. Unifying strengthening top-level design and insisting on seeking advice from the people is the most distinctive feature of this planning.
"Those who are in the same desire as the top and bottom win, and those who are in the same boat will prosper." Social expectations, masses' wisdom, expert opinions, and grassroots experience are fully absorbed into the formulation of the "14th Five-Year Plan". The "14th Five-Year Plan" compiled together has become a model for practicing people's democracy in the whole process.
Complete institutional procedures and complete participation practices, so that the people's democracy in the whole process can be implemented in all aspects of governance, and achieve full coverage of economic, political, cultural, social, ecological civilization and other fields, and the people's right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise are strongly guaranteed.
For more content, please refer to the article "China Practice of People's Democracy in the Whole Process" by Xinhua News Agency reporter in 2022, "Qiushi" magazine "China's Practice of People's Democracy in the Whole Process"
(Planning: Wei Tianshu)
Source: Qiushi.com
