The fourth issue of "Qiushi" magazine published on February 16 will publish an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, "Uphold and Improve the People's Congress System to Ensure that the People are the Masters of the Country." This is an excerpt from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions from December 2012 to June 2023.
The article emphasizes that the implementation of the People's Congress system in China is a basic conclusion drawn from a profound summary of the painful lessons of China's political life since modern times. It is the historical result of more than 100 years of radical changes and development in Chinese society. It is an important step for the Chinese people to stand up and be the masters of their own affairs. An inevitable choice of fate. The People's Congress system is a fundamental political institutional arrangement that adheres to the leadership of the Party, the people as masters of the country, and the governance of the country in accordance with the law. It ensures that the Party leads the people to effectively govern the country in accordance with the law. Practice has proven that the People's Congress system is a good system that conforms to my country's national conditions and reality, embodies 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. It is a great creation of our party's leadership of the people in the history of human political systems. It is 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.
The article points out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has continued to promote theoretical and practical innovations in the People's Congress system and proposed a series of new concepts, new thoughts and new requirements, mainly in the following aspects. First, we must adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China; second, we must persist in using the institutional system to ensure that the people are the masters of the country; third, we must persist in comprehensively governing the country according to law; fourth, we must adhere to democratic centralism; fifth, we must adhere to the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics; sixth, we must adhere to the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics. It is necessary to persist in promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
The article points out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have deepened our understanding of the development laws of democratic politics and put forward the major concept of people's democracy throughout the process. Our country's whole-process people's democracy not only has complete institutional procedures, but also has complete participatory practices. Our country's whole-process people's democracy has realized the unity of process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, and people's democracy and the will of the country. It is a full-chain, all-round, and full-coverage democracy. It is the broadest and most comprehensive democracy. The true and most effective socialist democracy. We must continue to promote the construction of people's democracy throughout the entire process, and make the people the masters of the country concretely and realistically reflected in the policies and measures of the party's governance of the country, and concretely and realistically reflected in the work of the party and state agencies at all levels and in all aspects. It should be reflected in the work of realizing the people's yearning for a better life in a practical and practical way.
The article emphasizes that the People's Congress system is an important institutional carrier for realizing the entire process of people's democracy in our country. It is necessary to strengthen the guarantee for the system of people being the masters of the country. We support and guarantee the people's exercise of state power through the People's Congress, and ensure that people's congresses at all levels are democratically elected, accountable to the people, and subject to people's supervision. Support and ensure that the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee exercise legislative, supervisory, decision-making, appointment and removal powers in accordance with the law, improve the National People's Congress's supervision system over administrative agencies, supervisory agencies, judicial agencies, and procuratorial agencies, and safeguard the unity, dignity, and authority of the country's rule of law. Strengthen the work capacity building of people's congress deputies and close the ties between people's congress deputies and the people. We will improve the working mechanism for absorbing public opinion and pooling people's wisdom, and build a good legislative contact point at the grassroots level.
(Source: CCTV News Client)