China’s Democracy

China’s whole-process people’s democracy is far more meaningfully democratic than the Western liberal democracy. The basic interests of ordinary people in China are represented in government to a far greater degree than in the West. Carlos Martinez, British political commentator

On December 14, 2021, China’s State Council Information Office released a white paper titled “China: Democracy That Works,” which comprehensively summarized the remarkable achievements of China’s democratic development and explained in depth values, concept, system, implementation procedures, participation practices, and world significance of China’s whole-process people’s democracy.

Whole-process people’s democracy is a distinctive feature of China’s democracy. Under the tremendous social governance challenge brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the characteristics and advantages of China’s whole-process people’s democracy have become increasingly clear. As a socialist democracy, China’s democracy integrates procedural democracy with substantive democracy, and process-oriented democracy with results-oriented democracy, aiming to pinpoint solutions to the real problems emerging in people’s lives.

Visual People November 9, 2021: People cast their votes to elect new deputies to the local people’s congress at a polling station in Yinxin Community of Congjiang County, southwestern China’s Guizhou Province.