A stable system leads to a stable country, and a strong system leads to a strong country.

The people's congress system is the fundamental political system of our country.

From the 13th to the 14th, a high-level and important meeting-the Central People's Congress Work Conference was held in Beijing.

The conference under the name of the "Working Conference of the Central People's Congress" is the first in the history of the party and the system of the People's Congress.

　　How to uphold and improve the people’s congress system in the new era and how to develop the whole process of people’s democracy... General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the meeting, made major conclusions, and deeply answered the development, persistence and improvement of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics in the new era A series of major theoretical and practical issues concerning the system of the People’s Congress.

This important speech is a programmatic document full of the power of Marxist truth.

From October 13th to 14th, the Central People's Congress work conference was held in Beijing.

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission attended the meeting and delivered an important speech.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xiang

[Important meetings held at important time points]

　　The world today is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. Institutional competition is an important aspect of competition for comprehensive national strength. Institutional advantages are an important advantage for a country to win strategic initiative.

　　What kind of political system a country implements and what kind of development path it chooses are major issues related to the future of the country and the happiness of its people.

　　At this meeting, the General Secretary profoundly pointed out the system advantages of our People’s Congress system and its great significance to the development of the political system of mankind:

　　-The People's Congress system is a good system that conforms to China's national conditions and reality, reflects the nature of a socialist country, ensures that the people are the masters of the country, and guarantees the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　-The People's Congress system is a great creation in the history of the political system of mankind by our party leading the people, and a brand-new political system of great significance in the history of political development in our country and even in the history of world political development.

　　For more than 60 years, especially for more than 40 years of reform and opening up, the People’s Congress system has provided important institutional guarantees for the party’s leadership of the people to create "two miracles", and has demonstrated a powerful force in the socialist modernization drive.

On the morning of July 1, the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China was held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei

　　In 2021, the Communist Party of China will celebrate its centenary, and our country will embark on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and marching towards the second centenary goal.

　　At this important time, the central government convened this important meeting concerning China's fundamental political system and the development of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Its importance is self-evident.

　　Embarking on a new road to rushing for the exam to achieve the second centenary goal, it is necessary to gather and inspire the majestic strength of 1.4 billion people.

As the general secretary emphasized, “we must unswervingly persist, advance with the times, improve the people’s congress system, strengthen and improve the work of the people’s congress in the new era,” and “we must continue to promote the whole process of people’s democratic construction”.

　　The general secretary’s words were eloquent: “We must adhere to the path of political development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, uphold and improve the people’s congress system, strengthen and improve the work of the people’s congress in the new era, continue to develop people’s democracy throughout the process, and consolidate and develop a lively, stable and united society. Political situation."

[Point out the direction for strengthening and improving the work of the National People's Congress in the new era]

　　The People's Congress system is an important part of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and it is also the fundamental political system that supports China's national governance system and governance capabilities.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to the system of people’s congresses. Starting from the strategic overall situation of upholding and improving the party’s leadership and consolidating the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, he has continued to promote the theoretical and practical innovations of the system of people’s congresses. Series of new concepts, new ideas and new requirements.

　　In September 2014, the General Secretary delivered an important speech at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National People’s Congress and pointed out: “Under the new situation, we must unswervingly adhere to the people’s congress system, and we must also advance with the times and improve the people’s congress system. ."

　　Revise the National People's Congress Organization Law, improve the organization and operation of the National People's Congress and other legal systems; revise the election law, appropriately increase the number of people's congress deputies at the county and township levels, and consolidate the foundation of the people's congress system; establish a system for the State Council to report state-owned assets management to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, etc. , To improve the supervision system and working mechanism of the people's congress...The people's congress system has been continuously developed and improved.

　　How to ensure the implementation of the constitution, how to strengthen the legislative work, how to make good use of the power of supervision given to the people’s congress by the constitution... At this meeting, the general secretary will improve the system of the people’s congress and strengthen and improve the work of the people’s congress from six aspects in the new era. Make clear requirements.

　　· Fully implement the Constitution and safeguard its authority and dignity.

　　Accelerate the improvement of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, promote development and ensure good governance with good laws.

　　· Make good use of the supervisory power granted to the National People's Congress by the Constitution, and implement correct, effective, and legally supervised supervision.

　　· Give full play to the role of deputies to the people's congress, so that the people will respond and I will respond.

　　·Strengthen the awareness of political organs and strengthen the self-construction of the people's congress.

　　·Strengthen the party's overall leadership over the work of the people's congress.

　　The general secretary clearly put forward the guiding ideology, major principles and main tasks for strengthening and improving the work of the people's congress in the new era, and pointed out the direction for strengthening and improving the work of the people's congress in the new era.

　　For the people’s congresses and their standing committees at all levels to strengthen their own construction, the general secretary put forward the requirement of becoming the "four organs" in his speech: becoming a political organ that consciously adheres to the leadership of the Working organs that are responsible for the various responsibilities entrusted by the Constitution and laws, and representative organs that have always maintained close contact with the people.

[Profound interpretation of "the whole process of people's democracy"]

　　On November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly stated at the Gubei Civic Center, Hongqiao Street, Changning District, Shanghai: "We are following a path of political development of socialism with Chinese characteristics. People's democracy is a kind of democracy in the whole process."

　　In an important speech at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stood at the height of the people's making history, emphasized the "development of people's democracy in the whole process", and issued a mobilization order to open up a new journey for China's socialist democratic political construction.

　　Different from the bourgeois democracy of various forms in the West, the whole process of people's democracy is the essential feature of socialist democracy, which embodies the constitutional principle that all power of the country belongs to the people, and embodies the fundamental purpose of the party to serve the people wholeheartedly.

　　Why is it said that Chinese-style democracy is "people's democracy in the whole process"?

At this meeting, the general secretary gave a profound explanation of the whole process of people’s democracy——

　　People's democracy in the whole process of our country not only has complete system procedures, but also has complete participation in practice.

The whole process of our country’s people’s democracy has realized process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct and indirect democracy, and people’s democracy and the will of the state are united. It is a full-chain, omni-directional, and fully-covered democracy. It is the most extensive and most comprehensive democracy. The real and most useful socialist democracy.

　　How to evaluate whether a country's political system is democratic and effective?

The general secretary once used 8 "whether" to elaborate.

If a country is democratic or not, how can it be measured?

At this meeting, the general secretary clearly pointed out: "The key lies in whether the people are truly the masters of the country", and at the same time put forward the standard of "four things to look at and four more things to watch":

　　·It depends on whether the people have the right to vote, and more importantly, whether the people have the right to participate widely;

　　·It depends on what verbal promises the people get during the election process, and more importantly, how much these promises have been fulfilled after the election;

　　·It depends on what kind of political procedures and political rules are stipulated by the system and laws, and more importantly, whether these systems and laws are actually implemented;

　　·It depends on whether the rules and procedures of power operation are democratic, and more importantly, whether power is really subject to the supervision and restriction of the people.

　　Democracy is the right of the people of all countries, not the patent of a few countries.

The growth of a political system is closely related to the soil in which it takes root.

Only the person who wears the shoes knows whether the shoes fit.

　　"Whether a country is democratic should be judged by the people of this country, and should not be judged by a few outsiders." The general secretary said calmly and forcefully, "Use a single ruler to measure the world’s rich and colorful political systems, and use monotonous Looking at the colorful political civilization of mankind is inherently undemocratic."

　　Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, and the main contradictions in our society have undergone transformation.

In this context, where is the driving force for the development and improvement of people's democracy in the whole process?

　　The people's congress system is an important institutional carrier for realizing the whole process of people's democracy in our country.

To uphold, improve, and develop the people's congress system is to develop people's democracy throughout the process, and it is to support and ensure that the people are the masters of the country.

　　Continuing to promote the construction of people’s democracy in the whole process, the general secretary put forward requirements for the “concrete and realistic” practice of people’s democracy in the whole process from three aspects:

　　"The people are the masters of the country. It is concretely and realistically embodied in the policies and measures of the party’s governance of the country, concretely and realistically embodied in the work of the party and state organs at all levels, and concretely and realistically embodied in the realization of people’s The work that a good life yearns for comes up."

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