Author: Liu Xiuhua Gu Zhaoming (Professor of School of Marxism, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Professor of Shanxi University of Finance and Economics)
Developing people’s democracy in the whole process is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. Without democracy, there would be no socialism, no socialist modernization and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. People’s democracy is the banner that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has always held high, and the whole process of people’s democracy is a major innovation in the construction of socialist democratic politics.
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Developing people’s democracy in the whole process is our party’s profound grasp of the historical trend of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization.
Developing people’s democracy in the whole process plays an important role in Chinese modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized the relationship between people’s democracy and Chinese modernization in the Party’s Report to the 20th CPC National Congress. He profoundly pointed out: "People’s democracy is the life of socialism and the proper meaning of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way." To build a socialist modern country in an all-round way, we must uphold and develop people’s democracy in the whole process.
Developing the whole process of people’s democracy is an inevitable requirement for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to stick to the people’s position and practice its initial intention and mission in the new era. Chinese modernization is committed to the common prosperity of all people, narrowing the development gap between regions and the gap between the rich and the poor, focusing on solving the problem of insufficient development imbalance, paying attention to social equity, preventing polarization, and better meeting people’s growing needs in economic, political, cultural, social and ecological aspects. The human heart is the greatest politics. Developing people’s democracy in the whole process is not only conducive to the coordinated development of China’s social economy and other fields, but also conducive to meeting the people’s ardent expectations. In the new historical period, to stick to the people’s stand and practice the initial intention and mission, it is necessary to develop people’s democracy in the whole process, so that the party’s line, principles and policies can truly take root and the worries and troubles of ordinary people can be properly solved.
Developing people’s democracy in the whole process is an urgent need to closely rely on the people, unite the people and give full play to the creative spirit of the people to realize Chinese modernization. To realize Chinese-style modernization, we must closely rely on the people, unite with them and give play to their creative spirit. We must uphold the people first and put solving the most concerned, direct and realistic problems of the people in the most important position; Firmly grasp the common prosperity of all people, an important feature of Chinese modernization, and persist in safeguarding and improving people’s livelihood in development. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Communist Party of China elaborated "developing people’s democracy in the whole process and ensuring that people are masters of their own affairs" as a special chapter, fully demonstrating the importance of developing people’s democracy in the whole process, relying on the people, uniting the people, and giving play to the people’s creative spirit in the cause of Chinese modernization. In the whole process, people’s democracy fully stimulated people’s creativity, and mobilized and condensed all the people to join the modernization drive as masters of the country.
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Developing people’s democracy in the whole process is an important institutional guarantee for realizing Chinese modernization and building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.
Marxist historical materialism holds that the contradiction between productive forces and production relations, economic base and superstructure is the basic law of human social development. According to this law, if socialist society wants to overcome the exploitation and oppression of the working class by capitalism and change the exploited position of the working class, it is necessary to establish a basic economic system of public ownership of the means of production. Accordingly, the superstructure should establish a whole set of political and legal system with democratic politics as the core. Only through the arrangement of the national political and legal system, democracy can be institutionalized, programmed and ruled by law, and the people can be effectively guaranteed and realized as masters of the country.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) has always been committed to the construction of a democratic political system in which the people are the masters of the country. After the founding of New China, the socialist public ownership of the means of production was gradually established through three major transformations, which consolidated the state system of proletarian dictatorship and the regime of people’s congress system, made the people’s congress system an important institutional carrier to realize people’s democracy, and effectively guaranteed that socialist democracy was not exclusive to a few people but enjoyed by the overwhelming majority of the people. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s basic economic system has been continuously reformed and improved, and the people’s democratic national political system has been continuously improved.
In the new era, developing people’s democracy in the whole process is an important institutional guarantee for realizing Chinese modernization and building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Realizing Chinese-style modernization, building a socialist modern country in an all-round way and developing people’s democracy in the whole process are not only its objectives and tasks, but also its important institutional guarantee. Developing the system of people’s democracy in the whole process is the institutional basis for unswervingly taking the road of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s development. Only by adhering to the organic unity of the party’s leadership, the people being the masters of the country and governing the country according to law can we uphold the people’s dominant position, fully embody the people’s will, safeguard the people’s rights and interests and stimulate their creative vitality. Perfecting the institutional system in which the people are the masters of the country is an institutional incentive to give full play to the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the people in realizing Chinese modernization. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "we should improve the democratic system, broaden the channels of democracy, enrich the forms of democracy, improve the guarantee of the rule of law, and ensure that the people enjoy extensive, full, true, concrete and effective democratic rights according to law". Only by adhering to the development of the system of people’s democracy in the whole process can we ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs and fully mobilize the initiative of the broad masses of the people to work together for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
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The whole process of people’s democracy runs through all aspects of economy, politics, culture, society and ecological civilization, etc. The whole process of people’s democracy is an innovation of socialist democratic values and highlights the value follow of Chinese modernization.
The innovation of people’s democratic values in the whole process is reflected in the high-quality development that gives consideration to efficiency and fairness. Achieving high-quality development is the essential requirement of Chinese modernization. High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. Chinese modernization, which contains the concept of people’s democratic values in the whole process, is to insist on giving full play to the effective market and the systematic joint efforts of the government to create efficient and fair high-quality development. Following the concept of people’s democratic values in the whole process, it is necessary to promote high-quality development, focus on solving the problem of large income distribution gap, adjust the pattern of national income distribution, make more development achievements benefit all the people more fairly, and continuously improve the people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security. High-quality development with both efficiency and fairness is beyond the dilemma of capital-centered modernization in the West.
The innovation of people’s democratic values in the whole process is embodied in the construction of democratic political civilization, which is "the most extensive, the most authentic and the most effective". The value concept of people’s democracy in the whole process profoundly reveals that the people are the masters of the country is the essence and core of socialist democratic politics. Report to the 20th CPC National Congress of the Party clearly pointed out that "the whole process of people’s democracy is the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, and it is the most extensive, authentic and effective democracy". The whole process of people’s democracy integrates democratic election, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision, ensuring the unity of process democracy and result democracy, formal democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, making people’s democracy vividly and concretely reflected in all aspects of the whole process of people being masters of the country, and realizing the full coverage of the people’s right to know, participate, express and supervise. The whole process of people’s democracy is the "most extensive" democracy. All power in People’s Republic of China (PRC) belongs to the people. In accordance with the law, the people manage state affairs, economic and cultural undertakings, and social affairs through various channels and forms. The complete system and procedures and the diversified forms of democracy that allow the people to practice are the real people who are the masters of the country and truly solve the troubles and difficulties of the people. The whole process of people’s democracy is the "truest" and "most effective" democracy. "The most extensive, the most authentic and the most useful"The construction of democratic political civilization has surpassed the capitalist party struggle for democracy and truly realized that the people are masters of their own affairs.
The innovation of people’s democratic values in the whole process is embodied in the construction of spiritual civilization that enriches the people’s spiritual world. Chinese modernization is a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are in harmony. Realizing people’s yearning for a better life is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s consistent pursuit, and it is also the value guidance and goal of Chinese modernization. The value concept of people’s democracy in the whole process is not only reflected in liberating and developing productive forces and promoting high-quality economic development in building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, but also in promoting common prosperity at the spiritual level. Pursuing Chinese modernization to enrich people’s spiritual world, abandoning the one-dimensional capitalist modernization of materialism expansion, effectively overcoming the spiritual disorder caused by materialism and utilitarianism, and promoting people’s all-round development.
The innovation of people’s democratic values in the whole process is embodied in the pursuit of "harmonious" social civilization construction. Chinese-style modernization is the common prosperity of all the people, and it is committed to the pursuit of "harmonious" social civilization construction. Chinese modernization is based on the fundamental value of people’s democracy in the whole process, which is essentially different from the capitalist civilization in which a few people in the west exploit and enslave the majority. The pursuit of "harmonious" social civilization construction transcends the polarization of capitalist wealth accumulation and poverty accumulation, effectively overcomes the tearing between social classes and strata, and promotes the all-round progress of society.
The innovation of people’s democratic values in the whole process is reflected in the construction of ecological civilization in beautiful China. Chinese-style modernization is the modernization in which man and nature coexist harmoniously. Respecting nature, conforming to nature and protecting nature are the inherent requirements of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. The system design and concrete practice of people’s democracy in the whole process ensure that the construction of ecological civilization reflects and embodies people’s feelings and public opinions, fully mobilize and give play to the strength of all people, and truly provide a good environment for people’s survival and development.
The whole process of people’s democracy is a full-chain, all-round and full-coverage democracy, which promotes the historical process of realizing people’s yearning for a better life and common prosperity for all people. Practicing a more extensive, full and sound whole-process people’s democracy will surely unite hundreds of millions of people to forge ahead courageously on the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way.