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I have been considering the advances and changes that were crystalized and made available to the masses (and Party cadres) in the aftermath of the 3rd CPC Plenum (here, here, here, and here). With the distribution of the 3rd Plenum documents it became critical to appropriately gloss its program as well as to tease out its connection to a developing New Era theory in which Chinese Marxist-Leninism has been situated during the contemporary era of Chinese historical development (The 3rd Plenum Official Gloss--习近平：关于《中共中央关于进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化的决定》的说明 [Xi Jinping: Explanation on the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reforms and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization"].
The central theme of the 3rd Plenum Resolution/Decision was centered on the further development of New Era principles and understandings of socialist modernization. Its substantial evolution from the Era of Reform and Opening Up required clarificaiton, as well as a plan for applying the contemporary expression of theory to meet the challenge of the contemporary general contradiction--unequal development and distribution of the benefits of modernization.
To those ends it was necessary to bring into the current situaiton the idea and theory of socialist modernization, and with it, the principles and premises on which it is based. Foremost among them has been a transformation in the explicit understanding of the scope of the productive forces that are the basic building blocks of socialist modernization, and with it the understanding of the way that State Assets and State direction of other objects of productive force might be better coordinated to meet the unified objectives described by the vanguard and enveloped in the broad notion of the Chinese Dream. To those ends, it may be emerging that productive forces, and the breadth of socialist modernization includes every aspect and function of the social, economic, cultural and political productivity of the nation. That may include, for example, the Communist arty itself (The Party as a State Asset and “新质生产力” (New Quality Productivity):《中国共产党纪律处分条例》 ["Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China"].
After a brief introduction, the essay is divided into the following sections: (1) 一、深刻认识全过程人民民主的重大理论和实践意义 [I. Deeply understand the great theoretical and practical significance of people's democracy throughout the whole process]; (2) 二、坚持以制度体系保障和发展全过程人民民主 [II. Adhere to the system to guarantee and develop the whole process of people's democracy]; and (3) 三、充分发挥人民代表大会制度在实现我国全过程人民民主中的重要制度载体作用 [III. Give full play to the important role of the people's congress system in realizing the whole process of people's democracy in our country].
The third section is itself divided into five major points: (1) 一要支持和保证人民通过人民代表大会行使国家权力 [First, we must support and guarantee the people's exercise of state power through the people's congress.]; (2) 二要完善以宪法为核心的中国特色社会主义法律体系 [Second, we must improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core. ]; (3)三要健全人大对行政机关、监察机关、审判机关、检察机关监督制度。完善监督法及其实施机制，强化人大预算决算审查监督和国有资产管理监督、政府债务管理监督 [Third, we must improve the supervision system of the National People's Congress over administrative organs, supervisory organs, judicial organs and procuratorial organs. Improve the supervision law and its implementation mechanism, strengthen the review and supervision of the budget and final accounts by the National People's Congress, and the supervision of state-owned assets management and government debt management]; (4) 四要健全吸纳民意、汇集民智工作机制。总结新时代人民代表大会制度实践的成果和经验，健全人大议事规则和论证、评估、评议、听证制度，不断提高议事质量和效率 [Fourth, we must improve the working mechanism for absorbing public opinion and gathering public wisdom. Summarize the achievements and experience of the practice of the people's congress system in the new era, improve the people's congress's rules of procedure and the system of argumentation, evaluation, review and hearing, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of deliberation]; and (5) 五要加强人大及其常委会自身建设 [Fifth, we must strengthen the self-construction of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee].
The discussion of the NCP as an asset of socialist modernization is quite interesting and useful. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the essay was its focus on the NCP system. True enough, the NCP system, at both the national and provincial levels plays a critical role in the application of the leadership and guidance of the Community Party within the administrative apparatus of state and subject to its rules and practices embedded in the State Constitution. It is in this sense, certainly that theessay provides a valuable study guide for the 3rd Plenum's democracy project within the larger objectives of socialist modernization. It is a useful means of understanding the administrative role of the State andits apparatus as a core and fundamental asset and productive force the proper utilization of which is critical to the fulfillment of the objectives of the 3rd Plenum Resolution.
Nonetheless, the principles of democracy--and especially people's consultative democracy, may also lie elsewhere in ways that are not part of the essay's focus. I have suggested elsewhere that the consultative process serves as a critical space for the political realization of democracy even as the NCP system fulfills its administrative realization (see eg, “Whole Process People’s Democracy” (全过程人民民主) as Applied Constitutionalism: Linking People to Governing Institutions through Socialist Constitutional Democracy and Leninist Political Parties; also “The Flower of Democracy Blooms Brilliantly in China [中国的民主之花绚丽绽放]”:The Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Constitutional Order). It would follow that it is the process of mass consultation, and the role of the mass organizations that serve as its core, constitute both central State assets and a key element of the productive force of socialist modernization.
The essay 李鸿忠 健全全过程人民民主制度体系（学习贯彻党的二十届三中全会精神) [Li Hongzhong, Improve the system of
people's democracy throughout the whole process (Study and implement the
spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central
Committee)],follows below in both the original Chinese and a crude English translation.
健全全过程人民民主制度体系（学习贯彻党的二十届三中全会精神）
李鸿忠 《 人民日报 》（ 2024年08月02日 第 06 版）
党的二十届三中全会通过的《中共中央关于进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化的决定》（以下简称《决定》），聚焦发展全过程人民民主这一中国式现代化的本质要求，就健全全过程人民民主制度体系作出全面部署、提出明确要求，对于新征程上坚持和完善我国根本政治制度、基本政治制度、重要政治制度，丰富各层级民主形式，把人民当家作主具体、现实体现到国家政治生活和社会生活各方面，具有十分重要的意义。
一、深刻认识全过程人民民主的重大理论和实践意义
党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚持走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路，全面发展全过程人民民主，社会主义民主政治制度化、规范化、程序化全面推进，中国特色社会主义政治制度优越性得到更好发挥，生动活泼、安定团结的政治局面得到巩固和发展。习近平总书记坚持运用“两个结合”，深刻把握民主政治发展规律，原创性提出了全过程人民民主重大理念，丰富和发展了马克思主义国家学说和社会主义民主政治理论，标志着我们党对民主政治发展规律的认识达到新的高度。“发展全过程人民民主”纳入习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想“十个明确”的重要内容，确定为中国式现代化的本质要求之一，为推进新时代社会主义民主政治建设提供了指引和遵循。
全过程人民民主清晰表明了中国共产党和中国人民的民主观。习近平总书记鲜明指出，民主是全人类的共同价值，是中国共产党和中国人民始终不渝坚持的重要理念。对于什么是真正的、有效的民主，习近平总书记创造性提出“八个能否”、“四个要看，四个更要看”的标准，揭示了民主真谛，廓清了民主“迷思”。以什么样的思路来谋划和推进中国社会主义民主政治建设，在国家政治生活中具有管根本、管全局、管长远的作用。习近平总书记提出我们党始终高举人民民主旗帜的五个基本观点：一是人民民主是社会主义的生命，没有民主就没有社会主义，就没有社会主义的现代化，就没有中华民族伟大复兴。二是人民当家作主是社会主义民主政治的本质和核心，发展社会主义民主政治就是要体现人民意志、保障人民权益、激发人民创造活力，用制度体系保证人民当家作主。三是中国特色社会主义政治发展道路是符合中国国情、保证人民当家作主的正确道路，是近代以来中国人民长期奋斗历史逻辑、理论逻辑、实践逻辑的必然结果，是坚持党的本质属性、践行党的根本宗旨的必然要求。四是人民通过选举、投票行使权利和人民内部各方面在重大决策之前进行充分协商，尽可能就共同性问题取得一致意见，是中国社会主义民主的两种重要形式，共同构成了中国社会主义民主政治的制度特点和优势。五是发展社会主义民主政治关键是要把我国社会主义民主政治的特点和优势充分发挥出来，不断推进社会主义民主政治制度化、规范化、程序化，为党和国家兴旺发达、长治久安提供更加完善的制度保障。习近平总书记的重要论述，彰显了坚定的道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信，增强了全党全国各族人民走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路的信心和定力，为人类政治文明进步作出充满中国智慧的贡献。
全过程人民民主集中反映了我国社会主义民主政治的本质属性和特点优势。全过程人民民主体现社会主义国家性质，坚持中国共产党领导，坚持走社会主义道路，为全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现中华民族伟大复兴凝聚智慧和力量。全过程人民民主是全链条、全方位、全覆盖的民主，不仅有完整的制度程序，而且有完整的参与实践。我国实行工人阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的人民民主专政的国体，实行人民代表大会制度的政体，实行中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度、民族区域自治制度、基层群众自治制度等基本政治制度，巩固和发展最广泛的爱国统一战线，形成了全面、广泛、有机衔接的人民当家作主制度体系，构建了多样、畅通、有序的民主渠道。在我国全过程人民民主实践中，全体人民依法实行民主选举、民主协商、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督，依法通过各种途径和形式管理国家事务，管理经济和文化事业，管理社会事务，把人民当家作主落实到国家政治生活和社会生活之中。全过程人民民主是最广泛、最真实、最管用的民主，实现了过程民主和成果民主、程序民主和实质民主、直接民主和间接民主、人民民主和国家意志相统一。在党的领导下，全体人民以国家主人翁的地位投身社会主义建设，创造了举世瞩目的经济快速发展奇迹和社会长期稳定奇迹，人民的获得感、幸福感、安全感不断提升。
发展全过程人民民主必须坚定不移走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路，坚持党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一。党的领导是发展全过程人民民主的根本保证，中国共产党的领导，就是保证和支持人民当家作主。在我国政治生活中，加强党的集中统一领导，支持人大、政府、政协和监委、法院、检察院依法依章程履行职能、开展工作、发挥作用，这两个方面是统一的。发展全过程人民民主，必须坚持党总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，坚决维护党中央权威和集中统一领导，保证党的理论、路线、方针政策和决策部署得到全面贯彻和有效执行。保证人民当家作主是全过程人民民主的本质要求。我国是人民民主专政的社会主义国家，国家一切权力属于人民。发展全过程人民民主，必须坚持以人民为中心，健全民主制度，丰富民主形式，拓宽民主渠道，确保人民享有广泛而真实的民主权利，发挥人民群众积极性、主动性、创造性。依法治国是党领导人民治理国家的基本方式。全面依法治国是国家治理的一场深刻革命，根本目的是依法保障人民权益。发展全过程人民民主，必须坚持走中国特色社会主义法治道路，建设中国特色社会主义法治体系，建设社会主义法治国家，依照宪法法律推进国家各项事业和各项工作，维护社会公平正义，尊重和保障人权，实现国家各项工作法治化。
二、坚持以制度体系保障和发展全过程人民民主
经过新中国成立75年来的不懈奋斗，我们党带领人民建立并不断巩固完善包括国家根本政治制度、基本政治制度、重要政治制度在内的全过程人民民主制度体系，为实现全过程人民民主提供了可靠制度保障。
人民代表大会制度是我国的根本政治制度。我国宪法规定，中华人民共和国的一切权力属于人民；人民行使国家权力的机关是全国人民代表大会和地方各级人民代表大会。各级人大都由民主选举产生，对人民负责、受人民监督；各级行政机关、监察机关、审判机关、检察机关都由人大产生，对人大负责、受人大监督。从国家机关的性质、设置到职权划分、运行，都体现了国家权力来自人民、对人民负责、为人民服务、受人民监督的价值理念。人民代表大会制度是坚持党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一的根本政治制度安排，保证党领导人民依法有效治理国家。
中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度是我国的基本政治制度，是中国共产党、中国人民和各民主党派、无党派人士的伟大政治创造，是从中国土壤中生长出来的新型政党制度。在人民民主的共同旗帜下，中国共产党与各民主党派长期共存、互相监督、肝胆相照、荣辱与共。中国人民政治协商会议是实行中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度的重要机构。人民政协作为专门协商机构，在协商中促进广泛团结、推进多党合作、实践人民民主，充分体现中国社会主义民主有事多商量、遇事多商量、做事多商量的特点和优势。
民族区域自治制度是我国的基本政治制度，是中国特色解决民族问题的正确道路的重要内容和制度保障，在维护祖国统一、领土完整，在加强民族平等团结、促进民族地区发展、增强中华民族凝聚力、铸牢中华民族共同体意识等方面都起到重要作用。
基层群众自治制度是我国的基本政治制度。在党的领导下，人民群众在城乡社区治理、基层公共事务和公益事业中依法自我管理、自我服务、自我教育、自我监督，依法直接行使民主权利，成为全过程人民民主的重要体现。
我国重要政治制度主要包括选举制度、特别行政区制度、立法制度、国家机构组织制度等，这些制度由根本政治制度和基本政治制度派生而来，在国家政治生活的重要领域、重点环节中发挥重要作用。
实践充分证明，全过程人民民主制度体系能够有效保证人民享有更加广泛、更加充实的权利和自由，保证人民广泛参加国家治理和社会治理；能够有效调节国家政治关系，发展充满活力的政党关系、民族关系、宗教关系、阶层关系、海内外同胞关系，增强民族凝聚力，形成安定团结的政治局面；能够集中力量办大事，有效促进社会生产力解放和发展，促进现代化建设事业，促进人民生活质量和水平不断提高；能够有效维护国家独立自主，有力维护国家主权、安全、发展利益，维护中国人民和中华民族的福祉。在新征程上，我们要毫不动摇坚持、与时俱进完善我国根本政治制度、基本政治制度、重要政治制度，进一步提高全过程人民民主制度化、规范化、程序化水平，更好把制度优势转化为治理效能，全面推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。
三、充分发挥人民代表大会制度在实现我国全过程人民民主中的重要制度载体作用
习近平总书记指出，人民代表大会制度是实现我国全过程人民民主的重要制度载体。这一重大论断丰富和拓展了人民代表大会制度的科学内涵、基本特征和本质要求，赋予人民代表大会制度建设和人大工作新的使命任务。要深入学习贯彻习近平总书记关于坚持和完善人民代表大会制度的重要思想，贯彻落实全会《决定》关于加强人民当家作主制度建设、深化立法领域改革的任务要求，坚持好、完善好、运行好人民代表大会制度，稳中求进推动人大工作高质量发展，为发展更加广泛、更加充分、更加健全的全过程人民民主提供法治保障。
一要支持和保证人民通过人民代表大会行使国家权力。在党的领导下，保证人民依法行使选举权利、民主选举产生人大代表，不断扩大人民有序政治参与，维护人民依法享有的广泛权利和自由，保证人民的知情权、参与权、表达权、监督权落实到人大工作各方面各环节全过程，确保党和国家在决策、执行、监督落实各个环节都能听到来自人民的声音。
二要完善以宪法为核心的中国特色社会主义法律体系。坚持宪法规定、宪法原则、宪法精神全面贯彻，坚持宪法实施、宪法解释、宪法监督系统推进，健全保证宪法全面实施制度体系，建立宪法实施情况报告制度，完善合宪性审查、备案审查制度，不断提高宪法实施和监督水平。完善党委领导、人大主导、政府依托、各方参与的立法工作格局，发挥人大及其常委会在立法工作中的主导作用，推进科学立法、民主立法、依法立法，切实提高立法质量。统筹立改废释纂，加强重点领域、新兴领域、涉外领域立法，健全国家治理急需、满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要必备、维护国家安全所急的法律制度，加快完善体现权利公平、机会公平、规则公平的法律制度，加强人权法治保障，以良法促进发展、保障善治。探索区域协同立法。坚持改革和法治相统一，确保重大改革于法有据，及时把改革成果上升为法律制度。
三要健全人大对行政机关、监察机关、审判机关、检察机关监督制度。完善监督法及其实施机制，强化人大预算决算审查监督和国有资产管理监督、政府债务管理监督。实行正确监督、有效监督、依法监督，聚焦党中央重大决策部署，聚焦人民群众所思所盼所愿，推动解决制约经济社会发展的突出矛盾和问题。统筹运用法定监督方式，提升监督工作的针对性、实效性，保证宪法法律全面有效实施，保证各国家机关依法行使权力，保证人民群众合法权益得到维护和实现。
四要健全吸纳民意、汇集民智工作机制。总结新时代人民代表大会制度实践的成果和经验，健全人大议事规则和论证、评估、评议、听证制度，不断提高议事质量和效率。丰富人大代表联系人民群众的内容和形式，加强人大常委会同人大代表的联系，提高代表议案建议审议办理质量，建好用好代表之家、代表联络站等联系群众的平台，使发挥人大代表作用成为人民当家作主的重要体现。完善人大民主民意表达平台和载体，健全人民群众参与立法、监督等工作机制，认真研究处理公民、组织对规范性文件提出的审查建议，建设好基层立法联系点，提高人大信访工作质量和水平，做好意见吸纳和反馈工作。发挥工会、共青团、妇联等群团组织联系服务群众的桥梁纽带作用。大兴调查研究，增进同人民群众的感情，最大限度凝聚各方面共识，夯实人大工作的民意基础。
五要加强人大及其常委会自身建设。深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，增强“四个意识”、坚定“四个自信”、做到“两个维护”，把各级人大及其常委会建设成为自觉坚持中国共产党领导的政治机关、保证人民当家作主的国家权力机关、全面担负宪法法律赋予的各项职责的工作机关、始终同人民群众保持密切联系的代表机关，打造政治坚定、服务人民、尊崇法治、发扬民主、勤勉尽责的人大工作队伍，为发展全过程人民民主作出新贡献。
Improve the system of people's democracy throughout the whole process (Study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)
Li Hongzhong, People's Daily (August 2, 2024, Page 06)
The "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Further Comprehensively Deepening Reforms and Promoting Chinese-style Modernization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision") adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee focuses on the essential requirement of developing people's democracy throughout the whole process, which is the Chinese-style modernization, and makes comprehensive arrangements and puts forward clear requirements for improving the system of people's democracy throughout the whole process. It is of great significance to uphold and improve China's fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political system on the new journey, enrich the forms of democracy at all levels, and reflect the people's mastery of their own affairs in a concrete and realistic way in all aspects of national political life and social life.
I. Deeply understand the great theoretical and practical significance of people's democracy throughout the whole process
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has adhered to the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, comprehensively developed people's democracy throughout the whole process, and comprehensively promoted the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democratic politics. The superiority of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics has been better exerted, and the lively, stable and united political situation has been consolidated and developed. General Secretary Xi Jinping insisted on using the "two combinations" to deeply grasp the laws of democratic political development, and put forward the important concept of full-process people's democracy in an original way, enriching and developing Marxist state theory and socialist democratic political theory, marking that our party's understanding of the laws of democratic political development has reached a new height. "Developing full-process people's democracy" is included in the important content of the "ten clarifications" of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and is determined as one of the essential requirements of Chinese-style modernization, providing guidance and follow-up for promoting the construction of socialist democratic politics in the new era.
Full-process people's democracy clearly shows the democratic outlook of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people. General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out that democracy is a common value of all mankind and an important concept that the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people have always adhered to. Regarding what is true and effective democracy, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively proposed the standards of "eight whether" and "four things to look at, and four things to look at more", revealing the true meaning of democracy and clarifying the "myth" of democracy. What kind of ideas are used to plan and promote the construction of China's socialist democratic politics, which plays a fundamental, overall and long-term role in the country's political life. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward five basic viewpoints on which our party always holds high the banner of people's democracy: First, people's democracy is the life of socialism. Without democracy, there is no socialism, no socialist modernization, and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Second, the people being the masters of the country is the essence and core of socialist democracy. The development of socialist democracy is to reflect the will of the people, safeguard the rights and interests of the people, stimulate the creative vitality of the people, and use the system to ensure that the people are the masters of the country. Third, the path of political development with Chinese characteristics is the correct path that conforms to China's national conditions and ensures that the people are the masters of the country. It is the inevitable result of the historical logic, theoretical logic, and practical logic of the long-term struggle of the Chinese people since modern times. It is an inevitable requirement for upholding the essential attributes of the Party and practicing the Party's fundamental purpose. Fourth, the people exercise their rights through elections and voting, and all aspects of the people conduct full consultations before major decisions, and try to reach a consensus on common issues. These are two important forms of China's socialist democracy, which together constitute the institutional characteristics and advantages of China's socialist democracy. Fifth, the key to developing socialist democracy is to give full play to the characteristics and advantages of China's socialist democracy, continuously promote the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democracy, and provide a more complete institutional guarantee for the prosperity and long-term stability of the Party and the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions have demonstrated firm confidence in the path, theory, system and culture, and have enhanced the confidence and determination of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, making contributions full of Chinese wisdom to the progress of human political civilization.
The whole process of people's democracy reflects the essential attributes and characteristics and advantages of China's socialist democratic politics. The whole process of people's democracy embodies the nature of a socialist country, adheres to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adheres to the socialist road, and gathers wisdom and strength for the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern power and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The whole process of people's democracy is a full-chain, all-round and full-coverage democracy, which not only has complete institutional procedures, but also has complete participation practice. China implements the state system of people's democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, the political system of the people's congress system, the basic political systems such as the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the system of grassroots mass autonomy, consolidates and develops the broadest patriotic united front, forms a comprehensive, extensive and organically connected system of people's mastery of their own affairs, and builds diverse, smooth and orderly democratic channels. In the practice of full-process people's democracy in China, all the people implement democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision in accordance with the law, manage state affairs, economic and cultural undertakings, and social affairs through various channels and forms in accordance with the law, and implement the people's mastery of their own affairs in the country's political and social life. Full-process people's democracy is the most extensive, most authentic, and most effective democracy, which realizes the unity of process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, and people's democracy and state will. Under the leadership of the Party, all the people have devoted themselves to socialist construction as masters of the country, creating a miracle of rapid economic development and long-term social stability that has attracted worldwide attention, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has been continuously improved.
To develop full-process people's democracy, we must unswervingly follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics and adhere to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people's mastery of their own affairs, and the rule of law. The Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the development of full-process people's democracy. The leadership of the Communist Party of China is to guarantee and support the people's mastery of their own affairs. In China's political life, strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party and supporting the National People's Congress, the government, the CPPCC, the Supervisory Commission, the courts and the procuratorates to perform their functions, carry out their work and play their roles in accordance with the law and the charter are unified. To develop people's democracy throughout the process, we must uphold the Party's core leadership role in taking overall charge and coordinating all parties, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and ensure that the Party's theories, lines, principles, policies and decision-making arrangements are fully implemented and effectively executed. Ensuring that the people are the masters of the country is the essential requirement of people's democracy throughout the process. China is a socialist country under the people's democratic dictatorship, and all state power belongs to the people. To develop people's democracy throughout the process, we must adhere to the people-centered approach, improve the democratic system, enrich democratic forms, broaden democratic channels, ensure that the people enjoy extensive and real democratic rights, and give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people. Rule of law is the basic way for the Party to lead the people in governing the country. Comprehensive rule of law is a profound revolution in state governance, and its fundamental purpose is to protect the rights and interests of the people in accordance with the law. To develop the whole process of people's democracy, we must adhere to the path of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, build a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, build a socialist rule of law country, promote all national undertakings and work in accordance with the Constitution and laws, safeguard social fairness and justice, respect and protect human rights, and realize the rule of law in all national work.
II. Adhere to the system to guarantee and develop the whole process of people's democracy
After 75 years of unremitting efforts since the founding of New China, our party has led the people to establish and continuously consolidate and improve the whole process of people's democracy system, including the fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political system of the country, providing a reliable institutional guarantee for the realization of the whole process of people's democracy.
The people's congress system is the fundamental political system of our country. Our Constitution stipulates that all power in the People's Republic of China belongs to the people; the organs through which the people exercise state power are the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels. People's congresses at all levels are elected by democratic elections, are responsible to the people, and are supervised by the people; administrative organs, supervisory organs, judicial organs, and procuratorial organs at all levels are produced by people's congresses, are responsible to people's congresses, and are supervised by people's congresses. From the nature and establishment of state organs to the division of powers and operation, they all reflect the value concept that state power comes from the people, is responsible to the people, serves the people, and is supervised by the people. The People's Congress system is a fundamental political system arrangement that organically integrates the Party's leadership, the people's mastery of the country, and the rule of law, and ensures that the Party leads the people to effectively govern the country according to law.
The multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the basic political system of our country. It is a great political creation of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese people, the democratic parties, and non-party personages. It is a new party system that has grown from Chinese soil. Under the common banner of people's democracy, the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties have long coexisted, supervised each other, shared honor and disgrace. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is an important institution for implementing the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. As a special consultation institution, the CPPCC promotes extensive unity, promotes multi-party cooperation, and practices people's democracy in consultation, fully reflecting the characteristics and advantages of China's socialist democracy of discussing more, discussing more when encountering problems, and discussing more when doing things.
The system of regional ethnic autonomy is the basic political system of our country. It is an important content and institutional guarantee of the correct path of solving ethnic issues with Chinese characteristics. It plays an important role in maintaining the unity of the motherland and territorial integrity, strengthening ethnic equality and unity, promoting the development of ethnic areas, enhancing the cohesion of the Chinese nation, and forging a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation.
Grassroots mass autonomy system constitutes China's basic political system. Under the leadership of the Party, the people self-manage, self-serve, self-educate and self-supervise in accordance with the law in urban and rural community governance, grassroots public affairs and public welfare undertakings, and directly exercise democratic rights in accordance with the law, which has become an important embodiment of the whole process of people's democracy.
China's important political systems mainly include the electoral system, the special administrative region system, the legislative system, the state institution organization system, etc. These systems are derived from the fundamental political system and the basic political system, and play an important role in important areas and key links of the country's political life.
Practice has fully proved that the whole process of people's democracy system can effectively guarantee that the people enjoy more extensive and more substantial rights and freedoms, and guarantee that the people participate extensively in national governance and social governance; it can effectively regulate national political relations, develop vibrant party relations, ethnic relations, religious relations, class relations, and relations between compatriots at home and abroad, enhance national cohesion, and form a stable and united political situation; it can concentrate its efforts on major events, effectively promote the liberation and development of social productivity, promote the cause of modernization, and promote the continuous improvement of people's quality of life and level; it can effectively safeguard national independence and autonomy, effectively safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and safeguard the well-being of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. On the new journey, we must unswervingly adhere to and keep pace with the times to improve our country's fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political system, further improve the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of the whole process of people's democracy, better transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, and comprehensively promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
III. Give full play to the important role of the people's congress system in realizing the whole process of people's democracy in our country
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the people's congress system is an important institutional carrier for realizing the whole process of people's democracy in our country. This important conclusion enriches and expands the scientific connotation, basic characteristics and essential requirements of the people's congress system, and gives new missions and tasks to the construction of the people's congress system and the work of the people's congress. We must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on upholding and improving the people's congress system, implement the tasks and requirements of the "Decision" of the plenary session on strengthening the construction of the people's master system and deepening reforms in the field of legislation, adhere to, improve, and operate the people's congress system well, seek progress in stability, promote the high-quality development of the work of the people's congress, and provide legal guarantees for the development of a more extensive, fuller, and more sound whole process of people's democracy.
First, we must support and guarantee the people's exercise of state power through the people's congress. Under the leadership of the Party, we will ensure that the people exercise their electoral rights and democratically elect deputies to the National People's Congress in accordance with the law, continuously expand the people's orderly political participation, safeguard the extensive rights and freedoms that the people enjoy in accordance with the law, ensure that the people's right to know, right to participate, right to express, and right to supervise are implemented in all aspects and links of the work of the National People's Congress, and ensure that the Party and the state can hear the voice of the people in all links of decision-making, execution, and supervision.
Second, we must improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core. We must adhere to the comprehensive implementation of the provisions, principles, and spirit of the Constitution, adhere to the systematic promotion of the implementation, interpretation, and supervision of the Constitution, improve the system to ensure the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution, establish a reporting system for the implementation of the Constitution, improve the constitutionality review and filing review system, and continuously improve the level of constitutional implementation and supervision. We must improve the legislative work pattern led by the Party Committee, dominated by the National People's Congress, supported by the government, and participated by all parties, give full play to the leading role of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee in legislative work, promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation in accordance with the law, and effectively improve the quality of legislation. Coordinate the establishment, revision, abolition, interpretation and compilation of laws, strengthen legislation in key areas, emerging areas and foreign-related areas, improve the legal system that is urgently needed for national governance, necessary to meet the people's growing needs for a better life, and urgent to safeguard national security, accelerate the improvement of the legal system that reflects equal rights, equal opportunities and equal rules, strengthen the legal protection of human rights, and promote development and ensure good governance with good laws. Explore regional collaborative legislation. Adhere to the unity of reform and the rule of law, ensure that major reforms are based on the law, and promptly elevate the reform results to legal systems.
Third, we must improve the supervision system of the National People's Congress over administrative organs, supervisory organs, judicial organs and procuratorial organs. Improve the supervision law and its implementation mechanism, strengthen the review and supervision of the budget and final accounts by the National People's Congress, and the supervision of state-owned assets management and government debt management. Implement correct supervision, effective supervision and supervision in accordance with the law, focus on the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, focus on the thoughts, expectations and wishes of the people, and promote the resolution of prominent contradictions and problems that restrict economic and social development. Coordinate the use of statutory supervision methods, improve the pertinence and effectiveness of supervision work, ensure the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Constitution and laws, ensure that all state organs exercise their powers in accordance with the law, and ensure that the legitimate rights and interests of the people are protected and realized.
Fourth, we must improve the working mechanism for absorbing public opinion and gathering public wisdom. Summarize the achievements and experience of the practice of the people's congress system in the new era, improve the people's congress's rules of procedure and the system of argumentation, evaluation, review and hearing, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of deliberation. Enrich the content and forms of NPC deputies' contact with the people, strengthen the connection between the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and NPC deputies, improve the quality of deliberation and handling of deputies' proposals and suggestions, build and use platforms such as representative homes and representative liaison stations to contact the masses, and make good use of them, so that the role of NPC deputies becomes an important manifestation of the people being masters of their own country. Improve the NPC's democratic expression platform and carriers, improve the working mechanism for the people's participation in legislation and supervision, conscientiously study and deal with the review suggestions put forward by citizens and organizations on normative documents, build grassroots legislative contact points, improve the quality and level of NPC petition work, and do a good job in absorbing and giving feedback. Give full play to the role of mass organizations such as trade unions, the Communist Youth League, and the Women's Federation as bridges and links in contacting and serving the people. Carry out investigations and research vigorously, enhance feelings with the people, and maximize consensus among all parties and consolidate the public opinion foundation of the work of the National People's Congress.
Fifth, we must strengthen the self-construction of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", and build the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee at all levels into political organs that consciously adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, state power organs that ensure that the people are the masters of the country, working organs that fully assume the various responsibilities entrusted by the Constitution and laws, and representative organs that always maintain close contact with the people, and build a team of National People's Congress workers that are politically firm, serve the people, respect the rule of law, promote democracy, and are diligent and responsible, and make new contributions to the development of people's democracy throughout the process.
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