Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 25th, by wireQuestion: This system closely unites all political parties and people without party affiliation-the press conference of the State Council Information Office focuses on China’s new party system
Xinhua News Agency reporters Wang Qi, Wang Ziming, and Liu Shuo
On June 25, the State Council Information Office published the white paper “China’s New Political Party System” and held a press conference. At the press conference, Xu Yousheng, deputy minister of the Central United Front Work Department and spokesman, answered reporters’ questions on the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party of China, a new type of political party system in China.
Institutions that grew out of Chinese soil
What kind of political party system a country implements is determined by the country’s historical traditions and actual national conditions.
Xu Yousheng introduced that China implements a system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. This system grew out of the soil of China. The Communist Party of China is the ruling party and the core of socialism with Chinese characteristics. There are eight democratic parties. It is a socialist party with Chinese characteristics that accepts the leadership of the Communist Party of China and cooperates closely with the Communist Party of China. It is a good adviser, helper, and colleague of the Communist Party of China.
When analyzing the advantages of China’s new political party system, Xu Yousheng said that China’s new political party system can truly, broadly, and lastingly represent the fundamental interests of the majority of the people, concentrating opinions and suggestions from all quarters, and achieving scientific and democratic decision-making; at the same time, Able to closely unite all political parties and people without party affiliation, and strive to achieve the common goal of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
China’s new political party system is constantly innovating and developing
Zhang Jian, director of the Research Office of the Central United Front Work Department and spokesperson, introduced that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s new political party system has achieved important results in theoretical innovation, policy innovation, and practical innovation.
Take democratic supervision in practice and innovation as an example. Zhang Jian said that, entrusted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, starting from 2016, the eight central and western provinces of the eight democratic parties have carried out special democratic supervision work on poverty alleviation and put forward a large number of opinions and suggestions. In the next step, entrusted by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the central government of all democratic parties and people without party affiliation will also carry out special democratic supervision on the ecological environment of the Yangtze River.
“Democratic parties and people without party affiliation give full play to their talents, intelligence-intensive, and extensive connections, offer advice, optimize decision-making, play their roles, serve the society, work hand in hand to meet challenges, and make important contributions to the country’s economic and social development. “Sang Fuhua, director of the Democratic Party Work Bureau of the Central United Front Work Department, said.
Give full play to the role of the people’s government and serve the country’s development
The CPPCC is an important institution for multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.
Wang Lianhai, Director of the Theory Bureau of the Research Office of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said that the organization of the CPPCC has distinctive characteristics. Non-party representatives such as democratic parties and people without party affiliation account for a large proportion of the CPPCC at all levels. Among the CPPCC organizations at all levels, there are More than 410,000 non-party representatives served as members of the CPPCC.
The National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference has further improved the mechanism for leveraging the advantages of China’s new-type political party system. In the system documents such as the CPPCC’s Consultative Working Rules, General Rules for Special Committees, Methods for the Selection and Supervision of Key Proposals, and Working Rules for Conference Statements, all democratic parties are represented in the CPPCC in the name of their respective parties. Make institutional arrangements for proposing proposals, submitting speeches to the conference, reflecting social conditions and public opinion information, etc. At the press conference, Wang Lianhai listed a set of figures: Since 2013, the democratic parties have submitted nearly 3,000 proposals in their own party; submitted 525 speeches to the conference, including 81 oral speeches; and reported more than 30,000 social conditions and public opinion information. . “This has made a positive contribution to giving play to the advantages of China’s new-type political party system, promoting the harmony of party relations, and serving the development of national undertakings in the new era.” Wang Lianhai said.