China News Service, Beijing, December 4 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) On the 4th, the Chinese official published a white paper "China's Democracy", which systematically introduced China's democratic values, development history, institutional system, participation in practice, and achievements and contributions.
In the meantime, there are three simple sentences, which can be seen in micro-insights and insights into China's "view on democracy."
One is "Democracy is the common value of all mankind."
This is the first sentence at the beginning of the white paper. It clearly expresses China's most basic understanding of democracy, that is, democracy is the right and common pursuit of people of all countries, not the patent of a few countries.
For a long time, the original meaning of democracy has been distorted and distorted by a few countries. They have packaged themselves as the only standard of democracy, turning democracy into a kind of "patent", dedicated to serving their own hegemonic thinking of "either I or Wrong".
What's more, it interferes in the internal affairs of other countries and infringes on the sovereignty of other countries in the name of democracy.
This not only goes against the starting point of democracy and turns democracy into an undemocratic tool, but also causes many real tragedies in the world.
Today, the thinking of individual countries is still obsessed with this, trying to continue to monopolize the definition and narrative rights of democracy, and "brainwashing" the world.
At the same time as the release of the white paper, the United States was convening a so-called "democracy summit" in an attempt to artificially divide the countries of the world into three, six or nine classes, labeling them as "democratic" and "non-democratic."
The outside world believes that in the face of the reimplementation of this democratic "obscure method", the original meaning of democracy needs to be polished, and the correct view of democracy needs to be re-established.
The world also needs to re-understand that "democracy is the common value of all mankind", and no country has the right to condescend to score other countries' democracy.
The second is "the fit is the best."
The white paper pointed out this when talking about the path of democratic development.
This sentence once again conveys China's consistent view of democracy: there is no exactly the same political system in the world, and there is no political system model that applies to all countries.
Countries should choose a democratic form that suits their own modern development based on their own characteristics, and learn from it instead of copying it.
This simple view of democracy is actually the result of China's tremendous efforts and price.
Looking back at history, China’s exploration of democracy in modern times has paid a heavy price for simply copying foreign models. Various attempts to imitate Western political systems such as parliamentary system, multi-party system, and presidential system have all ended in failure.
Since then, the Chinese Communist Party has led the Chinese people to continuously explore democratic roads and democratic forms that suit its own characteristics, and to this day realize the whole process of people's democracy.
Regarding this course of practice, the white paper summarizes one of the basic experiences: Persist in the design and development of China's democracy in accordance with China's characteristics and China's actual conditions, and unswervingly follow the path of democratic development in line with national conditions.
For this reason, today’s China, which has successfully carried out democratic exploration and practice, does not impose its own democratic path on others, but “firmly supports all countries to independently choose their own democratic development path”, and at the same time, places their successful practice in “enriching mankind”. "Political civilization form" to consider, and jointly promote the development of human civilization.
"One side of soil and water nurtures democracy on the other side, and each has its own beauty, but also the beauty of each other." The outside world believes that this is the world expression of China's view of democracy.
The third is "Democracy has no best, only better."
In China's view of democracy, democracy is a concept that has no "complete time".
After exploration, China's democracy has formed scientific and effective institutional arrangements and concrete and realistic democratic practices. In this regard, the white paper has carried out a detailed summary of experience.
But the white paper also shows that China does not believe that its democracy is perfect.
"China's democratic development has made remarkable achievements. At the same time, compared with the new requirements of modernization and the people's new expectations for democracy, China's democracy still needs continuous development and improvement." The white paper said.
Some commentators believe that on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, China needs to unswervingly promote the whole process of people's democracy, and realize new development of democracy while continuously promoting the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people.
In fact, consistent persistence, development, and innovation are the first priority for China's development of democracy, and it is also the "master key" and "master switch" for democracy in China's eyes.
The white paper is a manifestation of China's consistent quality of looking at things from a developmental and dissatisfied perspective, including democracy, the common pursuit of all mankind.
"Democracy is not the best, only better." As the white paper said in the concluding remarks: "The exploration and practice of democracy by mankind is endless." (End)