3. Promote the development of socialist consultative democracy

Consultation requires real consultation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Socialist consultative democracy should be real, not pretentious, all-round, not limited to a certain aspect, and should be done from top to bottom of the country, not limited to a certain level." "It is necessary to build a socialist consultative democracy system with reasonable procedures and complete links, and ensure that consultative democracy has a system to follow, rules to follow, rules to follow, and orderly to follow.

We will continue to strengthen political party consultations. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that the stage for multi-party cooperation in the new era is extremely broad, and it is necessary to make good use of the democratic form and institutional channel of political party consultation, to discuss more things, discuss things well, and discuss things at all, and build consensus, wisdom and strength through consultation. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the socialist political party system with Chinese characteristics, adhere to long-term coexistence, mutual supervision, treat each other with all sincerity, and share weal and woe, strengthen political consultation between the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties, do a good job of cooperation and cooperation, and consolidate and develop harmonious political party relations. We will continue to explore the forms of consultation between political parties, improve the form of meetings for consultations, improve the form of interviews between responsible comrades of the CPC Central Committee and the central committees of democratic parties, and improve the forms of written communication and consultation between the CPC Central Committee and the central committees of democratic parties. Improve the system for the central committees of democratic parties to directly submit proposals to the CPC Central Committee, strengthen the establishment of mechanisms for ensuring political party consultation, and support democratic parties in strengthening their capacity for consultation.

Actively carry out consultations with the people's congresses. Carrying out people's congress consultations is an important starting point for promoting the improvement and development of the people's congress system and improving the quality and level of people's congress work. It is necessary to further promote consultation in legislative work, give full play to the role of people's congress deputies in consultative democracy, encourage grassroots people's congresses to carry out consultations in accordance with the law in the course of performing their duties, explore forms of consultation, enrich the content of consultations, better gather the wisdom of the people, listen to the opinions of the people, and support and ensure that the people exercise state power through the people's congresses.

Solidly promote government consultations. It is necessary to strengthen government consultation around the effective promotion of scientific, democratic, and law-based decision-making, enhance the transparency of decision-making and public participation, solve the most immediate and realistic interests of the people, promote the transformation of government functions, and improve the ability and level of government governance. Explore the formulation and publication of a catalogue of matters for consultation. Enhance the breadth and pertinence of consultations, and where major issues of economic and social development, major public interests, or major livelihoods are involved, attach importance to listening to the opinions and suggestions of all aspects of society, and invite the public, especially stakeholders, to participate in consultations; Where the interests of specific groups are involved, strengthen communication and consultation with relevant people's groups, social organizations, and representatives of the masses. Improve mechanisms for government consultations, do a good job of open government information work, and create conditions for all parties to participate in government consultations.

Give full play to the advantages and role of the CPPCC. At present, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) has formed a pattern of consultation and discussion of politics with plenary sessions as the leader, special meetings of the Standing Committee and special consultations as the focus, and biweekly consultation forums as the norm. To strengthen the building of consultative democracy in the CPPCC, it is necessary to focus on the central tasks of the party and the state, adhere to the two major themes of unity and democracy, focus on promoting the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of political consultation, democratic supervision, and participation in and discussion of state affairs, and further expand the content of consultations, enrich the forms of consultations, standardize consultation procedures, increase the density of consultations, and improve the effectiveness of consultations. Improve the form of consultation conducted by the CPPCC through meetings, improve the consultation system of CPPCC plenary meetings, appropriately increase the number of meetings of the Standing Committee and special consultations on special topics, improve the system of consultation forums, carry out special consultations, counterpart consultations, sectoral consultations, and motions handling consultations more flexibly and frequently, and explore new forms such as online political discussion and remote consultation. Strengthen the building of the CPPCC system, and improve the ability of CPPCC members to grasp politics, investigate and research, connect with the masses, and cooperate and work together.

Conscientiously do a good job of people's organization consultations. In matters involving the interests of the people, it is necessary to discuss among the people how to deal with them, and it is very difficult to do things well if they are not discussed or not discussed enough. Establish and improve working mechanisms for people's organizations to participate in consultations through various channels, and strengthen consultations with relevant departments on practical issues involving the vital interests of the masses, especially those related to the protection of the rights and interests of specific groups. Complete working mechanisms for people's organizations to directly contact the masses, better organize and represent the masses with whom they are connected to participate in public affairs, effectively reflect the wishes and interests of the masses, and give play to the role of people's organizations as a bridge and link between the Party and the government and the people.

Steadily advance grassroots consultations. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that a large number of decision-making and work involving the interests of the people mainly take place at the grassroots level, and it is necessary to vigorously develop grassroots consultative democracy in accordance with the requirements of consultation with the people and consultation for the people, focusing on consultation among the grassroots masses. It is necessary to improve the system for grassroots organizations to keep in touch with the masses, strengthen deliberations and consultations, do a good job in the work of sending down information from above and uploading it from below, and ensure that the people manage their own affairs well in accordance with the law. Establish and improve coordination and linkage mechanisms for the construction of grassroots consultative democracy, organize relevant parties to carry out consultations around local urban and rural planning, engineering projects, land requisition and demolition, and people's livelihood issues that the masses have strong reactions to, promptly resolve contradictions and disputes, better resolve the people's practical difficulties and problems, and promote social harmony and stability.

Explore the development of social organization consultations. It is necessary to uphold the party's leadership and the government's management in accordance with the law, improve the working mechanisms and channels for contact with relevant social organizations, and guide social organizations to carry out consultations in an orderly manner to better serve society.

"With the eyes of the world, you will see everything; If you hear with the ears of the world, you will hear everything; If you think about the world, you know everything. "Facing the future, developing various undertakings and consolidating the political situation of national stability and unity, we must earnestly implement the strategic task of promoting the extensive, multi-layered, and institutionalized development of socialist consultative democracy, and further promote the harmonious development of relations between political parties, ethnic groups, religions, classes, and compatriots at home and abroad.