"The things are not even, and the feelings of the things are also." There is no identical model of political system in the world, and what kind of political development path a country takes must be compatible with the national conditions and nature of the country. In ancient and modern times, there are many examples of social unrest, national division, and political death due to the wrong choice of political development path. China is a large developing country, and adhering to the correct path of political development is a major issue that has a fundamental bearing on the overall situation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics is in line with China's national conditions and ensures that the people are the masters of the country.

After the Opium War in 1840, in order to save the nation from peril and achieve national rejuvenation, the Chinese people persevered and went forward one after another to find a political system model suitable for their national conditions. Before the Xinhai Revolution, the Taiping Rebellion, the Westernization Movement, the Wuxu Reform, the Boxer Rebellion, and the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty were all unsuccessful. After the Xinhai Revolution, China tried various forms such as constitutional monarchy, imperial restoration, parliamentary system, multi-party system, presidential system, etc., and various political forces and their representatives appeared one after another, but they failed to find the correct answer; China is still broken, poor and weak, the great powers are still tyrannical and wanton plundering in China, and the Chinese people are still living in suffering and humiliation. Facts have proven that the self-improvement movement that does not touch the old social foundation, reformism under various names, old-style peasant wars, democratic revolutions led by bourgeois revolutionaries, and various plans that copy the model of the Western political system cannot accomplish the historical tasks of saving the Chinese nation and fighting imperialism and feudalism, and cannot provide an institutional guarantee for China to achieve national prosperity and strength and the happiness of the people.

After the Communist Party of China leads the people to victory in the revolution, how should the state power be organized? How should the country be governed? This is a fundamental issue that has a bearing on the future of the country and the destiny of the people. After a long period of arduous exploration, our party has united and led the people to make major progress in developing socialist democratic politics, blazed a path of political development with distinctive Chinese characteristics, and established the correct direction for the realization of the broadest people's democracy. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics is the inevitable result of the historical, theoretical and practical logic of the long-term struggle of the Chinese people in modern times, and is an inevitable requirement for adhering to the essential attributes of the party and practicing the fundamental purpose of the party." "The path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics has a scientific guiding ideology, rigorous institutional arrangements, clear value orientation, effective forms of realization and reliable driving force. The core ideas, main contents, and basic requirements of this path of political development have all been confirmed and embodied in the Constitution.

To follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, we must adhere to the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and governing the country according to law. The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the people to be the masters of the country and to govern the country according to law, the people being the masters of the country is the essential characteristic of socialist democratic politics, and governing the country according to the law is the basic way for the party to lead the people in governing the country. Any proposition and practice of separating, opposing, or replacing each other with the party's leadership and the people as the masters of the country and governing the country according to law does not conform to the fundamental nature, core concept, and practical requirements of socialist democratic politics. In particular, it needs to be emphasized that in China's political life, the party leads everything, and the most fundamental thing is to uphold the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the organic unity of governing the country according to law.

To follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, we must actively and steadily promote the reform of the political system. It should be noted that there are still imperfections in the system, mechanism, procedures, norms, and specific operation of China's socialist democratic politics, and there are still some deficiencies in safeguarding the people's democratic rights and bringing into play the people's creative spirit, and we must continue to improve them. At present, the key task is to adapt to the requirements of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and deepen the reform of the Party and state institutions, which is the reform of the political system related to the overall situation and a profound revolution to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. It is necessary to strengthen the party's overall leadership as the guide, take the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity as the guide, and focus on promoting the optimization, coordination and efficiency of the functions of the party and state institutions, reform the institutional setup, optimize the allocation of functions, deepen the transformation of functions, methods, and styles, improve efficiency and effectiveness, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of national governance.

To follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, we must always maintain political determination. If we lack political determination, political self-confidence, and deviate from the direction, not only will it be difficult to do a good job in the building of political civilization, but it will also cause damage to the cause of the party and the people. "Orange is orange born in Huainan, and orange is born in Huaibei." We need to learn from the beneficial achievements of foreign political civilization, but we must not abandon the fundamentals of China's political system. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that the political system cannot be judged abstractly in isolation from specific social and political conditions and historical and cultural traditions, and cannot be fixed on one figure, nor can it be rigidly copied from the model of foreign political systems. For the rich and colorful world, we should uphold an inclusive attitude, humbly learn the good things of others, digest and absorb the good things of others from an independent standpoint, and turn them into our own good things. Copying and copying the political system of other countries will not work, it will not adapt to the water and soil, it will draw a tiger and become an anti-dog, and it will even bury the future and destiny of the country. Only a system that is rooted in the soil of the country and draws abundant nutrients is the most reliable and effective. It is necessary to persist in proceeding from the national conditions and reality, not only to grasp the historical inheritance that has been formed over a long period of time, but also to grasp the development path that has been traveled, the political experience that has been accumulated, and the political principles that have been formed, and also to grasp the requirements of reality and focus on solving practical problems.

Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China's economic strength, comprehensive national strength, and people's living standards have continuously stepped onto a new level, and various difficulties and obstacles on the way forward have been constantly overcome. These facts fully prove that China's socialist democratic politics has strong vitality and that the path of socialist 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. To strengthen self-confidence in the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, we must first strengthen our self-confidence in the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics, and strengthen our confidence and determination to follow the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics.