Ensuring that Chinese Modernization Steadily Forges Ahead Along the Right Path

It has been shown that the development of whole-process people's democracy is of fundamental, long-term, and overall significance for realizing national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. The development of whole-process people's democracy helps ensure the following.

The CPC's leadership always remains strong

As Chinese modernization is a CPC-led drive, it is imperative to uphold its overall leadership. The CPC's leadership determines the essential nature of Chinese modernization and bears directly on its fundamental orientation, trajectory, and ultimate success. 

Whole-process people's democracy ensures unity between the leadership of the CPC, the running of the country by the people, and law-based governance. On the one hand, the CPC's leadership ensures the people's role of running the country is fully realized and guarantees that the country's political life is vibrant while also being stable and orderly. On the other hand, the people, in running the country, participate in political life in a law-based, orderly, and extensive manner and embed democratic practices into the entire process of the CPC's leadership and governance. This helps deepen the popular foundation for its leadership and ensures that the CPC's guidelines, principles, and policies truly reflect the people's concerns, embody their aspirations, promote their wellbeing, and meet their desire for a better life.

Wisdom and strength are pooled for the undertakings of the CPC and the country

The people are the true driving force behind history. As a process that designates the people as its mainstay, Chinese modernization must firmly rely on the people, respect their creativity, and harness their collective wisdom and strength. China's tremendous and rarely seen success in economic and social development can be attributed to the strong CPC leadership, which has galvanized a powerful force by inspiring the people to work together. And the most effective means of rallying the people and harnessing their strength has been to support and guarantee their efforts to run the country. 

Whole-process people's democracy enables the integration of democratic practices into people's everyday work and life, ensuring that people's affairs are decided by the people themselves. At the same time, it ensures that the CPC's various policies for benefiting the people are transparent, publicly accessible, and democratic, in such a way that they turn into living, breathing policies that people can understand, experience, use, and improve upon. 

The system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is capable of self-improvement

Whole-process people's democracy also offers a vital avenue for the self-improvement and development of the system of Chinese socialism. In other words, by relying on whole-process people's democracy, we can fully unleash the creativity of the people and the vitality of society, thereby generating intrinsic momentum for the self-reform and refinement of the socialist system and creating greater space for modernizing China's system and capacity for governance. By developing whole-process people's democracy, we can ensure our various systems and national governance better reflect the will of the people, safeguard their rights and interests, and ignite their creativity. This will allow us to fully harness the strengths of Chinese socialism and ensure that Chinese modernization steadily forges ahead along the right path.

Editor: Yi Xiaowei