Chapter 73 Appendix Promoting People's Democracy with Inner-Party Democracy

The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China took the development of socialist democratic politics and the construction of socialist political civilization as an important goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and further clarified the strategic position, guiding principles and direction of progress of socialist democratic political construction.How to achieve the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people as the masters of the country, and the rule of law, unswervingly promote people's democracy through inner-party democracy, and take the road of socialist democratic political development with Chinese characteristics are major issues that need to be carefully studied and resolved.

The goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way set by the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is the goal of the comprehensive development of the socialist economy, politics and culture with Chinese characteristics, the goal of the coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization, and the goal of accelerating socialist modernization. The goal.Without the development of political civilization, the construction of material civilization and spiritual civilization will lose the political guarantee.Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "Without democracy, there would be no socialism, and there would be no socialist modernization." Similarly, without democracy, there would be no socialist political civilization, and there would be no higher-level moderately prosperous society that would truly benefit more than one billion people.The superiority of socialism is manifested not only in its ability to create higher labor productivity, but also in its ability to create a higher and more tangible democracy.The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made socialist democracy more perfect, the socialist legal system more complete, and the people's political, economic and cultural rights and interests earnestly respected and protected as an important part of building a well-off society in an all-round way, which shows that our party has a strong understanding of the laws and regulations of human social development. The further deepening of the understanding of the laws of socialist construction.

The development of people's democracy is the essential requirement of the Communist Party in power.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.All the tasks and responsibilities of the party are to seek the interests of the people, to unite and lead the masses of the people to struggle for the realization of their fundamental interests.Fundamentally speaking, the Communist Party governs by leading and supporting the people to be the masters of the country, mobilizing and organizing the people to manage state and social affairs in accordance with the law, managing economic and cultural undertakings, and safeguarding and realizing the fundamental interests of the people.The development of people's democracy is also a further deepening of our party's understanding of the ruling laws of the Communist Party.The basic requirement of democratic politics is that state power comes from the people and serves the society.A political party has achieved its ruling status because it represents the interests of the people and has won the trust and support of the people; it also maintains and consolidates its ruling status because its operation of state power conforms to and realizes the fundamental interests of the people.As the ruling Communist Party, only by adhering to building the party for the public, governing for the people, continuously promoting democracy within the party and the people, and fully guaranteeing the people's right to be the masters of the country, can they gain the support of the people and effectively safeguard the legitimacy of the party's ruling foundation .

The development of my country's socialist market economy urgently requires deepening the reform of the political system, reforming and improving the party's leadership style and governance style, leadership system and work system, vigorously promoting people's democracy, and further removing institutional obstacles to economic development.At present, the wave of political democratization is sweeping the world, and the conflicts, comparisons, competitions, and references of various values, political cultures, and political models are becoming more and more profound. China's national conditions, as well as absorbing the beneficial achievements of human political civilization, and taking the road of socialist democratization with Chinese characteristics pose a challenge.Judging from the setbacks suffered by the world socialist movement and the successive loss of ruling status of some big and old parties, it is a dead end not to develop the economy and improve people's lives; it is also a dead end not to reform the political system and implement people's democracy.Therefore, vigorously promoting inner-party democracy and people's democracy is an urgent need for the party to calmly deal with various risks, tests and challenges, and it is a realistic choice for the party to keep pace with the times, practice the important thinking of the "Three Represents" and maintain its advanced nature.

Inner-Party democracy is the life of the Party, and it plays an important exemplary and leading role in people's democracy.The development of inner-party democracy is not only an internal requirement for the survival and development of the party itself, but also an objective requirement for promoting people's democracy and building socialist political civilization.Promoting people's democracy with inner-party democracy is a strategic choice for building a socialist political civilization with Chinese characteristics, and it is a practical and effective road to the development of democratic politics with Chinese characteristics.

Promoting people's democracy through intra-party democracy is determined by the nature, status and purpose of the party.The nature, status and purpose of the Communist Party of China determine the special status and role of the party in the construction of socialist democratic politics. First of all, the core leadership position of the party in the country's political system determines the leading role of inner-party democracy to people's democracy.The Communist Party of my country, as the ruling party leading the cause of socialist modernization in our country, has a close relationship with the understanding of the construction of socialist democratic politics and the democratic life within the party.The party's leadership over the country's political life is often based on the habits and experience of democratic life within the party.The degree of democratization within the party has a direct and decisive impact on the degree of democratization of the country's political life.

Secondly, as the faithful representative of the interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people, the party has determined that the party is a staunch defender of the people's democratic rights.Fully exercising the people's right to be the masters of the country and maximizing the realization of the people's political interests is the fundamental goal of democratic political construction, which is consistent with the purpose of the party. Third, as the vanguard of the Chinese working class, the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, the Communist Party of China is an example for the entire society.The democratic awareness, democratic style, and democratic habits cultivated by leading cadres at all levels of the party and the majority of party members in their inner-party life will undoubtedly have a significant guiding and exemplary role in the political life of the entire country.

Therefore, the nature, status and purpose of the party determine the development of China's democratic politics, which must be based on the democratization of the ruling party itself.Without the democratization of inner-party life, there will be no democratization of the political life of the entire country.The history and reality of the party's leadership and support for the people to be the masters of the country fully prove that the party is the most staunch advocate of the people's democratic political concept.The party has developed the idea of ​​"sovereignty lies in the people" to a new level, and turned it from an ideal into a reality in terms of institutional form and political practice.The party is the founder of the people's democratic regime and the promoter of political system reform.The party led the people to establish the state power of the people's democratic dictatorship, established the basic political system and basic political system including the people's congress system, the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system led by the Communist Party, and the ethnic regional autonomy system, and implemented democratic elections. , Democratic decision-making, democratic management, democratic supervision and a series of specific systems, as well as a series of grassroots democratic systems such as villager self-government, resident self-government, enterprise democratic management, and industry self-government. The reform of the political system has made significant progress, showing an innovative spirit and political courage to keep pace with the times.The party is a cultivator and an example of democratic tradition and style.The democratic tradition and democratic style formed by the party in the long-term practice of revolution, construction and reform are the precious wealth of the party leading the construction of socialist democratic politics.

Promoting people's democracy with inner-party democracy is determined by the inherent unity, relevance and interaction between inner-party democracy and people's democracy.Inner-Party democracy and people's democracy belong to different levels and scopes of democracy.The unity of the two is manifested in: Inner-party democracy and people's democracy are both Marxist democracy, and both must uphold the party's leadership and the fundamental socialist political system; The enthusiasm and creativity of all party members and the broad masses of the people are advancing in an orderly and step-by-step manner; both of them regard building a socialist political civilization with Chinese characteristics as a common goal and create political conditions for building a well-off society in an all-round way.The relationship between the two is manifested in: the party is the leader of the democratic political system, and the people are the main body of democratic practice; democracy within the party is the political premise for the development of people's democracy, and people's democracy is the highest form and fundamental goal of socialist democratic politics; Democracy and people's democracy influence each other, interact and restrict each other, and are unified in the practice of building a socialist political civilization with Chinese characteristics.The interaction between the two is manifested in: On the one hand, inner-party democracy directly guides and promotes people's democracy.The political participation awareness, enthusiasm and ability of party members directly affect the enthusiasm and level of political participation of the masses. The democratic life conditions within the party determine the degree of protection and realization of people's democratic rights, and the institutionalization of political life within the party determines the institutionalization of the country's political life.As the Communist Party in charge of state power, only by continuously improving the democratic life within the party can a lively political situation be formed in the whole society and the enthusiasm of the people for political participation be transformed into a powerful driving force for promoting political democratization.On the other hand, the development of people's democracy also plays an important role in promoting inner-party democracy.With the continuous improvement and improvement of the people's democratic system, the people's supervision over the ruling party will also increase, which will effectively promote the development of inner-party democracy.

Promoting people's democracy through inner-party democracy is the basic experience gained by the party through long-term practice.The construction of democratic politics in China can only adapt to China's specific level of productivity development and China's history, national characteristics and cultural traditions. It can only proceed from China's specific national conditions and follow the path of democratization with Chinese characteristics.The history of the party's governance has repeatedly proved that when the democratic life within the party is active and healthy, the people's democracy will be carried forward;After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping emphasized on many occasions that the past democratic tradition should be "expanded to the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country" and that democracy should be regarded as "the political basis for realizing the modernization of the country." , expressing the idea of ​​using inner-party democracy to promote people's democracy and build socialist democratic politics.On the basis of summarizing historical experience, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that "gradually promoting people's democracy through inner-party democracy is a practical and effective way to develop socialist democratic politics." The plenary session established the promotion of inner-party democracy to promote people's democracy as an important way to build socialist democratic politics.In his speech celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Party, Comrade Jiang Zemin once again emphasized the need to "actively promote the development of people's democracy through the development of inner-party democracy."The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China adhered to this idea, and specifically clarified that inner-party democracy plays an important demonstration and leading role in people's democracy.Therefore, adhering to the dialectical unity of inner-party democracy and people's democracy, upholding the dialectical unity of the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and ruling the country by law is a scientific conclusion drawn by the party on the basis of summarizing both positive and negative experiences and lessons. The fundamental principles that must be adhered to in the development of democratic politics.

To promote the construction of democratic politics in our country in the new century, we must firmly grasp the key point 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 taking the reform of the party's leadership system and working mechanism as a breakthrough , establish and improve an intra-party democratic system that fully reflects the wishes of party members and party organizations, an effective democratic supervision mechanism with internal and external constraints, and a leadership system and working mechanism in which the party takes overall control and coordinates all parties, comprehensively promotes the construction of intra-party democracy, and makes it better Fully play a demonstration and leading role in people's democracy. Establish and improve various democratic systems within the party.System construction is fundamental, stable, overall and long-term.In accordance with the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, to further establish and improve the inner-party democratic system, we must focus on the following aspects at present: improve the 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 have a better understanding of and participation in party affairs; 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 party congress system on the basis of pilots ; 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; reform and improve the internal party elections system, improve the candidate selection method and the differential election method, and truly reflect the will of the electors.In addition, it is necessary to establish and improve the internal party information reporting system, the situation reporting system, and the system for soliciting opinions on major decisions. Establish a sound and effective democratic supervision mechanism.Power that is not supervised and restricted will inevitably lead to corruption and trample on democracy.The report of the Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized that it is necessary to establish a power operation mechanism with a reasonable structure, scientific allocation, strict procedures, and effective constraints, and strengthen supervision of power from decision-making and execution.At present, it is necessary to further dredge the channels of democratic supervision: first, inner-party supervision.Strengthen the supervision of Party members over Party organizations, the National Committee over the Standing Committee, the Party's lower organizations over higher-level organizations, among members of the Party committee's leadership team, and over Party members, cadres, and Party organizations under the Party's discipline inspection organs, so as to ensure that the Party's Leading cadres exercise their power in accordance with the law.The second is public supervision.While further improving the system of people's congresses at all levels, actively promote the openness of administrative affairs, factory affairs, village affairs, leading cadres' performance and honesty, social publicity, democratic appraisal, inquiry hearings and other democratic forms, and strengthen the decision-making process and power exercise. supervision.The third is legal supervision.The people's congresses at all levels have the supreme power to supervise the implementation of the Constitution and laws. Party organizations at all levels and all party members must operate within the scope of the Constitution and laws, and consciously accept the supervision of the people's congresses; at the same time, they must give full play to The supervisory role of judicial organs and functional departments such as administrative supervision and auditing.The fourth is to strengthen the supervision of the democratic parties.In accordance with the policy of "long-term coexistence, mutual supervision, utter sincerity, and sharing weal and woe", we will strengthen cooperation with various democratic parties and consciously accept their supervision.The fifth is supervision by public opinion.Through effective public opinion supervision, ensure that party members and party organizations at all levels always listen to the voices of the people, observe their sentiments, and know their opinions. Reform and improve the party's leadership system and working mechanism.Reforming and improving the party's leadership and governance methods has an overall effect on promoting the construction of socialist democratic politics.In accordance with the principle of the Party taking control of the overall situation and coordinating all parties, we must standardize the relationship between the Party Committee and the People's Congress, the government, the CPPCC, and people's organizations, support the People's Congress in performing its functions as organs of state power in accordance with the law, and make the Party's propositions become the will of the state through legal procedures. The candidates recommended by the organization become the leaders of the state power organs and supervise them; support the government to perform statutory functions and administer according to law; support the CPPCC to perform functions around the two themes of unity and democracy.Strengthen the leadership of trade unions, Communist Youth Leagues, women's federations and other people's organizations, support them in carrying out their work in accordance with the law and their respective charters, and better serve as a bridge and link between the party and the broad masses of the people. Implement the rule of law and adhere to the rule of law.A basic requirement of the rule of law is that the party must operate within the scope of the constitution and the law.Only when Party members and cadres take the lead in abiding by the Constitution and laws and strictly acting in accordance with the law can they safeguard the authority of the Constitution and laws and make them truly a sharp weapon for safeguarding the people's democratic rights and ensuring the smooth progress of socialist political civilization.Governing the country according to the law is an inherent part of governing the country according to the law, and governing the country according to the law necessarily requires governing the country according to the law.Party organizations and leading cadres at all levels must strictly follow the scope, procedures, content and means prescribed by law to exercise their governing power.Realizing the rule of law is conducive to implementing the party's proposition, reflecting the will of the people, and ensuring the institutionalization, standardization, and legalization of the people's mastery of the country from the system and law.