CPC shares governance experience
Xi to speak at ‘Dialogue with World Political Parties’
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will hold dialogues in Beijing with political parties and organizations around the world through high-level meetings and a series of symposiums to share its experience on governance and ideas of community with a shared future for mankind.
More than 600 leaders and representatives from about 300 political parties and organizations from more than 120 countries will attend the Dialogue with World Political Parties High Level Meeting from Thursday to Sunday, according to information provided by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee which is organizing the meeting.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, will attend the opening ceremony on Friday afternoon and deliver a keynote speech to all participants at the Great Hall of the People, Guo Yazhou, vice director of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at a press conference on November 24.
“After the 18th National Congress, the CPC’s exchanges with political parties from other countries have obviously increased, and now, this trend will continue and the exchanges will be more frequent and deeper,” Su Wei, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, told the Global Times on Thursday.
“China’s development is getting more and more successful, so the CPC, as the ruling party of China, is more confident in sharing its experience and ideas with the world and also more open
to learning from others,” said Zhang Xixian, a professor at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Sharing experiences
Political parties from developing and developed countries are sending representatives to the symposiums. Many party leaders have come from Asia, Africa and Latin America, along with delegates from the Conservative Party of the UK, Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and The Republicans of France. Former prime minister of Canada Jean Chrétien will also attend.
According to the schedule, the symposiums on experience of governance, which will be held on Saturday, will cover topics like “punishment and prevention of corruption, intraparty supervision and institutional building, selection and training of officials.”
The participants will join panel discussions to discuss topics such as “Jointly Pursuing the Belt and Road Initiative: The Role of Political Parties” and “Steering the Building of a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind: The Role and Responsibilities of Political Parties” on Saturday.
Currently, the comparison between the system of Western democracy and China’s system of democratic centralism under the leadership of the CPC is raising a series of questions to the world, especially among developing countries, Zhang told the Global Times on Thursday.
“Which one is more effective to realize modernization, to maintain domestic peace and stability, and to concentrate resources to resolve major problems and achieve great goals? For instance, poverty is a problem shared by all developing countries, but many developing countries with Western democracy haven’t changed their situation effectively,” Zhang said.
Xi said in the report to the 19th CPC National Congress that “we must ensure that by the year 2020, all rural residents living below the current poverty line have been lifted out of poverty, and poverty is eliminated in all poor counties and regions.”
“This is a huge and ambitious goal, and during this process, our experiences on grass-roots Party building, gathering and organizing people in underdeveloped regions, concentrating resources to resolve problems, will surely be meaningful for the poverty alleviation of the world and building a community with a shared future for mankind,” Zhang stressed.
Learning from others
China also needs to learn from others to overcome new challenges, Su said.
“China is still on its path to modernization, and our political system is not perfect, so we also need to remain humble and learn from others, and this has been a good tradition of the CPC since Mao Zedong’s and Deng Xiaoping’s era,” Su said.
Xi said in the report that “as socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era, the principal contradiction facing Chinese society has evolved. What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life.”
Su said, “We have our political principles and we will not copy other systems. But in the specific area of social governance, which can make development more balanced and adequate, many other countries are still doing better than us.”