The “two sessions” offer the world an important window to observe China’s democracy. “Whole-process people’s democracy is the defining feature of socialist democracy,” said Chinese President Xi Jinping. “It is democracy in its broadest, most genuine, and most effective form.”The thoughts and aspirations of over 1.4 billion people have been incorporated into the top-level design of national development through China’s unique and distinctive whole-process people’s democracy. At no point has the “democracy for the few,” as seen in some countries — “democracy of the 1 percent, by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent” — been seen in China. The report to the 20th CPC National Congress emphasized that developing a whole-process people’s democracy is one of the essential requirements of Chinese modernization.

Source: Daily News Egypt March 13, 2024 02:31 UTC