Chapter 66 Chapter 9 Zhen Xiaoying Plays the Strongest Voice of China's Political Reform

On June 16, 2003, in the twelfth issue of "Seeking Truth" magazine, an article entitled "Promoting People's Democracy Through Inner-Party Democracy" aroused special attention and speculation from overseas observers and the media.The authors of this article are Zhen Xiaoying, vice president of the Central Institute of Socialism, who is known as an "expert in party building research" in China, and her student, Li Qinghua, a Ph.D. from the Central Party School. In this article, the author emphasizes in a firm tone that "it is a dead end if the economy is not developed and people's lives are not improved; it is also a dead end if the political system is not reformed and people's democracy is not implemented", so overseas observers almost unanimously speculate that this is A signal for the upcoming political reform program of the Chinese Communist Party.

Professor Zhen Xiaoying pointed out in the article that inner-party democracy is the life of the party and has an important demonstration and leading role in people's democracy.In socialist China, the people are the masters of the country and the fundamental force that determines the future and destiny of the country.The ruling Communist Party does not have any special interests above the interests of the people, let alone any special powers above the rights of the people. After reviewing the lessons of history, the article pointed out that the history of the Communist Party of China has repeatedly proved that when the democratic life within the party is active and healthy, the people’s democracy will be carried forward; when the democratic life within the party is destroyed, the democratic life of the entire country will suffer Serious twists and turns will occur.

In Professor Zhen Xiaoying's view, to promote the construction of democratic politics in China in the new century, we must firmly grasp the key of inner-party democracy, based on safeguarding the democratic rights of party members, focusing on the construction of various democratic systems within the party, and reforming the party's leadership. The system and working mechanism are the breakthrough point, establish and improve the inner-party democratic system that fully reflects the wishes of party members and party organizations, and the democratic supervision mechanism with effective constraints inside and outside the party. Construction, so that it can better play a demonstration and leading role in people's democracy.

The article also emphatically pointed out that to establish and improve the inner-party democratic system, we must focus on the following five aspects of work at present: 1. Improve various systems that effectively protect the democratic rights of party members and party organizations at all levels, further broaden the channels for inner-party democracy, and enable party members to Learn more about and participate in internal party affairs; 2. Improve the party congress system, actively explore ways and forms to play a representative role when the party congress is not in session, and actively and steadily implement the permanent system of party congresses on the basis of pilot projects ; 3. In accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic concentration, individual deliberation, and meeting decisions, improve the internal discussion and decision-making mechanism of the party committee, correctly handle the relationship between the Standing Committee and the National Committee, and give full play to the role of the National Committee; 4. Reform and Improve the inner-party election system, improve the candidate selection method and the competitive election method, and truly reflect the will of the electors; 5. Establish and improve the inner-party information reporting system, the situation reporting system, and the system for soliciting opinions on major decisions.

The article concludes with a concluding tone that power without supervision and restriction will inevitably lead to corruption and trample on democracy. The strong repercussions aroused by the article "Promoting People's Democracy Through Inner-Party Democracy" were unexpected by Zhen Xiaoying.Since June 16, Professor Zhen Xiaoying has become the focus of the media. Reporters from Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, the United States and other major media have called Zhen Xiaoying's office and asked for interviews. Some even came from overseas. Went to Beijing to find Zhen Xiaoying, hoping to capture more exclusive information about "political reforms within the party".Zhen Xiaoying had to turn down more interviews due to heavy teaching and research tasks.Reporters from South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, China, Kyoto Shimbun in Japan, and Washington Post in the United States who had the honor of interviewing Zhen Xiaoying got a common impression after the interviews: The political reform of the Communist Party of China is doing it in a down-to-earth manner, step by step. footprint.A reporter from Hong Kong's "Asia Weekly" said that China's political reform situation is changing with each passing day, and Zhen Xiaoying, a powerful figure in the CCP's party building think tank, obviously cannot be ignored.