General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is very important to ensure and support the people to be the masters of the country, and to allow the people's representatives to participate in the management of national and social life through elections in accordance with the law, and it is also very important to let the people participate in the management of national and social life through systems and methods other than elections.

The people only have the right to vote but not the right to participate extensively, and the people are awakened only when they vote and go dormant after voting.

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"One person, one vote" is real

Compared with the capitalist democracy of the "dictatorship of the minority," socialist consultative democracy is an institutional arrangement that effectively guarantees that the people are the masters of the country, and has incomparable superiority and strong vitality.

Socialist consultative democracy is conducive to expanding citizens' orderly political participation and better realizing the people's right to be masters of the country.

Comrade Mao Zedong said,

"All aspects of the relationship between the state must be negotiated", our government

"You could call it a consultative government." The construction of consultative democracy in China is all-round, multi-level, and three-dimensional.

From the perspective of channels, it includes political party consultation, people's congress consultation, government consultation, CPPCC consultation, people's organization consultation, grassroots consultation and social organization consultation; From the perspective of content, it covers major issues in the political life of the Party and the state, the formulation and revision of laws and regulations, important decisions on economic and social development, practical issues involving the vital interests of the people, and related affairs related to the construction of each consultation channel. From the perspective of levels, it includes all levels from the central government to the grassroots level.

Through socialist consultative democracy, by inviting all political parties, groups, social strata, and all fields to participate in consultations extensively, to accept criticism and supervision, and to fully reflect the opinions and suggestions of all quarters, the greatest consensus can be reached in policy decisions and work, and the democratic rights of the broad masses of the people can be realized to the greatest extent possible and the people can truly be the masters of the country.

Socialist consultative democracy is conducive to promoting scientific and democratic decision-making and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

The process of extensive consultation among the people in all quarters is the process of promoting democracy and pooling wisdom, the process of unifying thinking and building consensus, the process of scientific and democratic decision-making, and the process of realizing that the people are masters of the country.

Through socialist consultative democracy, the public, especially stakeholders, can be attracted to participate in decision-making, gather wisdom from all sides, and improve the pertinence of decision-making. Able to absorb experts, scholars, think tanks and institutions for decision-making consultation, and improve the professional level of decision-making; Be able to communicate and discuss in the decision-making process, enhance the openness and transparency of decision-making, better enhance understanding and build consensus; It can widely unblock the channels for various interests and demands to enter the decision-making process, and widely form a mechanism for discovering and correcting mistakes and errors.

Socialist consultative democracy is conducive to resolving contradictions and conflicts and promoting social harmony and stability. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Democracy is not an ornament, not for decoration, but for solving the problems that the people want to solve." "Deliberative democracy has built a platform for dialogue, exchange, and communication among all sectors of society.

Through socialist consultative democracy, we can better allow the masses to express their demands, straighten out their emotions, effectively resolve differences, enhance consensus, and form policies and measures that conform to the will of the people. It can enable people to improve mutual understanding, care more about each other's interests, understand the public interest, and consider long-term interests while caring about their own interests; A mechanism for the masses to participate in management and governance at all levels can be widely formed, which will help prevent and resolve possible contradictions and risks at the source and promote social harmony and stability.

Socialist consultative democracy is conducive to maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses of the people and consolidating and expanding the party's ruling foundation.

Consultative democracy is an important embodiment of the mass line of the Communist Party of China in the political field. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that the masses are the focus of socialist consultative democracy, and all decisions involving the vital interests of the masses must fully listen to the opinions of the masses and consult with the masses at all levels and in all aspects through various means.

Through consultative democracy, we can extensively listen to the voices of the masses of the people, fully absorb their opinions and suggestions, think about what the masses think, be anxious about what the masses are anxious about, and worry about what the masses are worried about, and deeply root the enhancement of the ruling ability in the creative practice of the people.

Consultative democracy is also conducive to further improving the party's leadership style and work style, and through equal exchanges and dialogues, party members and cadres and the masses can get closer, improve relations, enhance feelings, and guide the masses to better understand and agree with the party's principles and policies, thus gathering the wisdom and strength of the whole society to promote reform and development.

Socialist consultative democracy is conducive to giving full play to the superiority of China's political system and enhancing self-confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

"The name is not made in heaven, it must be true." The forms of democracy are rich and diverse, and we cannot stick to a rigid model, let alone have only one standard for judging that can be applied universally.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that whether the people enjoy democratic rights depends on whether the people have the right to vote in elections and whether they have the right to continue to participate in daily political life. It is necessary to see whether the people have the right to conduct democratic elections, and also whether they have the right to democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision.

China's socialist consultative democracy has not only adhered to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, but also played a positive role in all aspects. It not only adheres to the dominant position of the people, but also implements the leadership system and organizational principle of democratic centralism; It has not only adhered to the principle of people's democracy, but also implemented the requirements of unity and harmony, greatly enriched the form of democracy, expanded the channels of democracy, and deepened the connotation of democracy, thus better embodying the tremendous superiority and strong vitality of China's socialist democratic politics.