Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 29 (Xinhua) The fifth issue of "Qiushi" magazine published on March 1 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, "Strengthening and Improving the Work of the People's Political Consultative Conference to Comprehensively Develop Deliberative Democracy" 》.
This is an excerpt from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions from February 2013 to June 2023.
The article points out that the CPPCC is a great achievement of the Communist Party of China that combines the Marxist-Leninist united front theory, political party theory, and democratic political theory with China's reality. A great creation in the political system.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the CPPCC adheres to the two major themes of unity and democracy, serves the central tasks of the party and the country, and has played a very important role in the establishment of New China and socialist revolution, construction, and reform in various historical periods.
Practice has proved that the CPPCC system has unique advantages in many aspects.
The article points out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have summed up our experience and put forward a series of new requirements for the work of the People's Political Consultative Conference, mainly in the following aspects.
The first is to strengthen the party’s leadership over the work of the People’s Political Consultative Conference.
The second is to accurately grasp the nature and positioning of the CPPCC.
The third is to give full play to the role of the special consultation body of the People's Political Consultative Conference.
The fourth is to uphold and improve my country's new political party system.
The fifth is to gather people's hearts and strength extensively.
Sixth, focus on the central tasks of the party and the country and perform their duties responsibly.
Seventh, we insist that the CPPCC serves the people.
The eighth is to promote the construction of duty performance capabilities in the spirit of reform and innovation.
Under the new situation, we must uphold the CPPCC system well, develop the CPPCC cause well, strengthen our responsibility for carrying out united front work, and unite more people around the party.
The article points out that the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of my country, as a basic political system in our country, is a new type of political party system that grew out of Chinese soil.
It not only conforms to the reality of contemporary China, but also conforms to the excellent traditional culture that the Chinese nation has always advocated such as serving the world for the common good, being inclusive, seeking common ground while reserving differences, and is a major contribution to human political civilization.
It is necessary to uphold and improve the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the organic combination of party leadership, united front, and consultative democracy, adhere to the two-way power of promoting democracy and enhancing unity, advising on governance, and building consensus, and give full play to the People's Political Consultative Conference As a specialized consultation body, we will strengthen institutionalization, standardization, procedures and other functions.
The article emphasizes the need to comprehensively develop deliberative democracy.
Deliberative democracy is an important form of practicing people's democracy throughout the process.
The CPPCC promotes broad unity, promotes multi-party cooperation, and practices people's democracy during consultations. It not only adheres to historical traditions, but also reflects the characteristics of the times. It fully embodies the characteristics and characteristics of my country's socialist democracy that there is more discussion on everything, more discussion on everything, and more discussion on all things done. Advantage.
It is necessary to improve the system of deliberative democracy, coordinate the promotion of party consultations, people's congress consultations, government consultations, CPPCC consultations, people's organization consultations, grassroots consultations and social organization consultations, improve various institutionalized consultation platforms, and promote the broad and multi-layered institutional development of deliberative democracy.