The Leadership of the Communist Party of China Is the Fundamental Feature of China’s New Type of Party System

General Secretary Xi Jinping, when greeting non-Party figures on the eve of the Spring

习近平总书记1月20日在同党外人士共迎新春时强调，“牢牢把握中国共产党领导这个中国新型政党制度的根本特征，深入学习新时代中国特色社会主义思想，多做强信心、聚民心、暖人心、筑同心的工作，切实把各方面积极因素转化为发展成效”。中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度作为我国一项基本政治制度，是中国共产党、中国人民和各民主党派、无党派人士的伟大政治创造，是从中国土壤中生长出来的新型政党制度，具有多方面的鲜明特色和显著优势。这既是马克思主义政党理论同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合的生动体现，也是中国同西方国家政党政治模式相比较得出的基本结论。

I. The leadership of the Communist Party of China ensures that China’s new type of party system can truly, extensively, and enduringly represent and realize the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people, and the fundamental interests of all ethnic groups and all sectors of the country.

一、中国共产党领导，确保中国新型政党制度能够真实、广泛、持久地代表和实现最广大人民根本利益、全国各族各界根本利益

The party system is an important component of the national political system, reflecting the ways in which parties conduct political activities and the relationships among various parties. In China, both the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties emerged and developed in the course of exploring paths to save the nation and the people. Achieving national independence, the liberation of the people, national prosperity and strength, and the happiness of the people are the common goals of all parties within China’s new type of party system. The Communist Party of China, which holds the leading position in this new type of party system, has taken seeking happiness for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its original aspiration and founding mission since its inception. It unites all forces that can be united, forms a broad united front, and propels the cause of the Party and the people forward along the correct path to victory, achieving globally recognized brilliant accomplishments and gaining broad political recognition. The democratic parties emerged and developed in the course of the Chinese people’s struggle against imperialist aggression, for democracy, and against dictatorial rule. Their social base consists of the national bourgeoisie, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and the intellectuals and other patriotic figures associated with these classes. In exploring paths to save the nation and the people, and in comparing the Kuomintang’s military dictatorship with the Communist Party of China’s policy of actively uniting various revolutionary groups, they discerned the historical trend and made the correct choice, voluntarily accepting the leadership of the Communist Party of China, jointly negotiating the founding of New China, and together laying the foundation for China’s new type of party system. After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China unswervingly represented the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people, becoming the strong leading core of socialist revolution, construction, and reform. The democratic parties gradually became political alliances of a portion of socialist workers, builders of the socialist cause, and patriots who support socialism, to which they are respectively connected. They coexist with the Communist Party of China over the long term, supervise each other, treat each other with sincerity, and share honor and disgrace, establishing the pattern for the long-term existence and development of China’s new type of party system. Since the New Era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has vigorously promoted innovation in the theory, policy, and practice of multiparty cooperation, clearly stating that upholding the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the fundamental feature of China’s new type of party system, clearly defining the democratic parties as socialist participating parties with Chinese characteristics and individuals without party affiliation as participating forces of socialism with Chinese characteristics, clearly identifying the focus for better demonstrating the efficacy of China’s new type of party system as giving full play to the positive role of the democratic parties and individuals without party affiliation, and emphasizing the good use of party consultation as a democratic form and institutional channel, thereby promoting the gradual improvement of China’s new type of party system.

政党制度是国家政治制度的重要组成部分，反映着政党进行政治活动的方式和各个政党之间的关系。在中国，中国共产党和各民主党派都是在探索救国救民道路中产生和发展起来的，实现民族独立、人民解放和国家富强、人民幸福是中国新型政党制度中各政党的共同目标。在中国新型政党制度中处于领导地位的中国共产党，自诞生之日起就把为中国人民谋幸福、为中华民族谋复兴作为初心和使命，团结一切可以团结的力量，组成广泛的统一战线，推动党和人民事业沿着正确方向胜利前进，取得了举世瞩目的辉煌成就，获得了广泛的政治认同。各民主党派是在中国人民反帝爱国、争取民主和反对独裁专制的斗争中产生和发展起来的，其社会基础是民族资产阶级、城市小资产阶级以及同这些阶级相联系的知识分子和其他爱国人士。在探索救国救民道路中，在对国民党军事独裁统治和中国共产党积极联合各革命团体的政策对比中，他们认清了历史大势、作出了正确选择，自愿接受中国共产党领导、协商筹建新中国，共同奠定了中国新型政党制度的基础。新中国成立后，中国共产党矢志不渝代表中国最广大人民根本利益，成为社会主义革命、建设和改革的坚强领导核心。各民主党派逐步成为各自所联系的一部分社会主义劳动者、社会主义事业建设者和拥护社会主义的爱国者的政治联盟，与中国共产党“长期共存、互相监督、肝胆相照、荣辱与共”，确立了中国新型政党制度长期存在和发展的格局。新时代以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央大力推进多党合作理论、政策和实践创新，明确坚持中国共产党的领导是中国新型政党制度的根本特征，明确民主党派是中国特色社会主义参政党、无党派人士是中国特色社会主义参政力量，明确更好体现中国新型政党制度效能的着力点是发挥好民主党派和无党派人士的积极作用，强调用好政党协商这个民主形式和制度渠道，推动中国新型政党制度逐步完善。

Looking back over more than a century of history, the Communist Party of China has remained true to its original aspiration and unwavering in its mission, consistently representing the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people and striving unremittingly for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. China is a multi-ethnic country with a vast territory, a huge population, and unbalanced regional development. Within the people, on the basis of fundamental unity of interests, there also exist differences and contradictions in specific interests. The democratic parties bear the obligation and responsibility to represent and realize the specific interests of the masses to which they are connected. The Communist Party of China has no special interests of its own beyond the interests of the country, the nation, and the people. It has never represented any interest group, any power group, or any privileged stratum. In all undertakings of the country, it plays the leading core role of exercising overall leadership and coordinating all parties, integrating the specific interests of the masses connected to the democratic parties into the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people, seeking consensus amidst diversity, finding the greatest common denominator and drawing the largest concentric circle, and jointly advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.

纵览历史，百余年来中国共产党初心不改、使命不移，始终代表中国最广大人民根本利益，为实现中华民族伟大复兴而不懈奋斗。我国是一个幅员辽阔、人口规模巨大、区域发展不平衡的多民族国家，人民内部在根本利益一致基础上还存在具体利益的差别和矛盾。各民主党派担负有代表和实现他们所联系群众具体利益的义务和责任。中国共产党除了国家、民族、人民的利益，没有任何自己的特殊利益，从来不代表任何利益集团、任何权势团体、任何特权阶层的利益，在国家各项事业中发挥总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，把各民主党派所联系群众的具体利益统合到最广大人民根本利益中，在尊重多样性中寻求一致性，找到最大公约数、画出最大同心圆，共同推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业。

Under the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, when there are matters to discuss, it is good to discuss them; the affairs of the many are discussed by the many. Finding the greatest common denominator of the will and demands of the whole society is the true essence of people’s democracy. China’s new type of party system takes cooperation, participation, and consultation as its basic spirit, and unity, democracy, and harmony as its essential attributes. It possesses the important functions of political participation, interest expression, social integration, democratic supervision, and maintaining stability. It achieves the organic unity of governance and participation in governance, leadership and cooperation, and consultation and supervision. It is an important form of realizing the people being the masters of the country and an important institutional vehicle for socialist consultative democracy. It is precisely because of the leadership of the Communist Party of China that China’s new type of party system better represents the interest demands of different strata and different social groups, broadens and unblocks various channels for interest expression, and exhibits broad representativeness; it respects the will of the majority while also taking care of the reasonable demands of the minority, exhibiting broad representativeness; it upholds the long-term governance of the Communist Party of China while also upholding the long-term coexistence and cooperation between the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties, exhibiting enduring stability. It is precisely by truly, extensively, and enduringly representing and realizing the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people and the fundamental interests of all ethnic groups and all sectors of the country that China’s new type of party system possesses great originality, immense superiority, and strong vitality in terms of democratic value and practical significance.

在中国特色社会主义制度下，有事好商量、众人的事情由众人商量，找到全社会意愿和要求的最大公约数，是人民民主的真谛。中国新型政党制度以合作、参与、协商为基本精神，以团结、民主、和谐为本质属性，具有政治参与、利益表达、社会整合、民主监督和维护稳定的重要功能，实现了执政与参政、领导与合作、协商与监督的有机统一，是人民当家作主的重要实现形式和社会主义协商民主的重要制度载体。正是有了中国共产党领导，中国新型政党制度更好代表不同阶层、不同社会群体的利益诉求，拓宽、畅通各种利益表达渠道，呈现出广泛的代表性；既尊重多数人的意愿，又照顾少数人的合理要求，呈现出广泛的代表性；既坚持中国共产党长期执政，又坚持中国共产党与各民主党派长期共存与合作，呈现出持久的稳定性。正是这样真实、广泛、持久地代表和实现最广大人民根本利益、全国各族各界根本利益，中国新型政党制度在民主价值和实践意义上具有伟大独创性、巨大优越性和强大生命力。

II. The leadership of the Communist Party of China ensures that China’s new type of party system can closely unite all political parties and individuals without party affiliation to strive for common goals.

二、中国共产党领导，确保中国新型政党制度能够把各个政党和无党派人士紧密团结起来、为着共同目标而奋斗

Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times. Over a century ago, facing profound domestic and foreign troubles and national crisis, the Chinese Communists recognized that to win the victory of the New Democratic Revolution, relying solely on the strength of the Chinese working class was insufficient; it was necessary to unite all progressive forces to form a powerful synergy. The Second National Congress of the Party put forward the proposition of establishing a “democratic united front,” initially formulating the policy of the united front. After the failure of the Great Revolution, the Communist Party of China established a worker-peasant democratic united front, uniting the broad masses of peasants and others to oppose feudal oppression and the rule of the new warlords of the Kuomintang, driving the Chinese revolution forward with the momentum of a prairie fire. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Communist Party of China established the strategy of forming an anti-Japanese national united front, uniting the strength of all ethnic groups, democratic parties, patriotic armies, patriotic figures from all strata, and overseas Chinese who opposed Japanese imperialism. Through bloody struggle and united effort, they won the first complete victory in the Chinese people’s resistance against foreign invasion in modern times. During the War of Liberation, the Communist Party of China timely put forward the proposition of establishing a people’s democratic united front. The democratic parties, people’s organizations, and figures from all ethnic groups and sectors actively responded, jointly participating in the new Political Consultative Conference and preparing for the founding of New China. After the founding of New China, the Communist Party of China strengthened its unity and cooperation with the democratic parties and individuals without party affiliation. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the democratic parties and individuals without party affiliation influenced and mobilized the masses to which they were connected, actively participating in socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up, and socialist modernization. China’s new type of party system embarked on an institutionalized track and further developed. Entering the New Era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has vigorously strengthened comprehensive leadership over the cause of multiparty cooperation and promoted the construction of the multiparty cooperation system. The democratic parties and individuals without party affiliation have closely united around the Communist Party of China, leveraging their respective advantages, extensively building consensus, pooling wisdom, and gathering strength, playing an increasingly important role in the country’s political life.

实现中华民族伟大复兴是近代以来中华民族最伟大的梦想。百余年前，面对深重的内忧外患和民族危机，中国共产党人认识到，要取得新民主主义革命的胜利，单靠中国工人阶级的力量是不够的，必须团结一切进步力量，形成强大合力。党的二大提出了建立“民主的联合战线”的主张，初步提出了统一战线的方针。大革命失败后，中国共产党建立起工农民主统一战线，把广大农民等团结起来，反对封建压迫和国民党新军阀统治，推动中国革命呈现星火燎原之势。抗日战争爆发后，中国共产党确立建立抗日民族统一战线的策略，把反对日本帝国主义的各族人民、各民主党派、各爱国军队、各阶层爱国人士以及海外华侨的力量凝聚起来，通过浴血奋战、团结奋斗赢得了近代以来中国人民反抗外敌入侵的第一次完全胜利。解放战争期间，中国共产党适时提出建立人民民主统一战线的主张，各民主党派、各人民团体、各族各界人士积极响应，共同参加了新政协、筹建了新中国。新中国成立后，中国共产党加强与各民主党派、无党派人士的团结合作，各民主党派、无党派人士在中国共产党领导下，影响和带动所联系群众，积极投身于社会主义革命和建设、改革开放和社会主义现代化建设，中国新型政党制度走上制度化轨道并进一步发展。进入新时代，以习近平同志为核心的党中央大力加强对多党合作事业的全面领导，推进多党合作制度建设；各民主党派、无党派人士紧密团结在中国共产党周围，发挥各自优势，广泛凝聚共识、凝聚智慧、凝聚力量，在国家政治生活中发挥更加重要的作用。

From the course of the gestation, formation, development, and improvement of China’s new type of party system, it can be seen that the Communist Party of China has, for over a century, consistently worked to unite all political parties and non-party personages closely together to strive for common goals. From the day of its founding, the CPC established communism as its lofty ideal and has always united and led the Chinese people in advancing toward this great ideal. In different historical periods, the CPC has conformed to the developmental demands of the times, represented the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people, and, based on changes in the principal contradiction in society, put forward phased objectives and clarified the central tasks of the moment. These objectives and tasks carry the common vision of the various democratic parties and non-party personages for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, and thus can gather people’s hearts and pool their strength to jointly devote themselves to the revolution, construction, and reform undertakings led by the CPC. This has laid the political foundation for the close cooperation between the CPC and the various democratic parties and non-party personages.

从中国新型政党制度孕育、形成、发展、完善的历程可以看出，中国共产党百余年来始终致力于把各个政党和无党派人士紧密团结起来、为着共同目标而奋斗。中国共产党从成立之日起就把共产主义确立为远大理想，始终团结带领中国人民朝着这个伟大理想前行。在不同历史时期，中国共产党顺应时代发展要求，代表最广大人民根本利益，根据社会主要矛盾变化，提出阶段性目标，明确当前的中心任务。这些目标和任务，承载着各民主党派、无党派人士强国建设、民族复兴的共同愿景，因而可以把人心凝聚起来、力量汇聚起来，共同致力于中国共产党领导的革命、建设和改革事业。这就奠定了中国共产党和各民主党派、无党派人士亲密合作的政治基础。

In China’s state governance system, the CPC occupies the leading and ruling position and is the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics; the various democratic parties and non-party personages consciously accept the leadership of the CPC and are socialist participating political parties and participating forces with Chinese characteristics. On the one hand, the ruling party exercises political leadership over the participating parties and participating forces, that is, leadership in political principles, political direction, and major policies and guidelines, while simultaneously supporting them in carrying out their work independently and autonomously and consciously accepting their supervision. On the other hand, the participating parties and participating forces endorse the ruling party’s basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, participate in state governance under the leadership of the ruling party, offer advice and contribute efforts on major issues concerning national economic and social development, and carry out consultative and cooperative political supervision over the ruling party. In the organic unity of ruling and participating, leadership and cooperation, and consultation and supervision, China’s new type of party system closely unites all political parties and non-party personages to strive for common goals, effectively avoiding the drawbacks of either a single party lacking supervision or multiple parties taking turns in power and engaging in vicious competition; through extensive consultation, it achieves ideological consensus, goal identification, and unity of action, which is conducive to promoting political unity and orderly participation; centering on upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it forms a common ideal, a common cause, and common action, gathers a powerful social synergy, and concentrates strength to accomplish major tasks and do good things.

在我国国家治理体系中，中国共产党处于领导地位和执政地位，是中国特色社会主义事业的坚强领导核心；各民主党派、无党派人士自觉接受中国共产党领导，是中国特色社会主义参政党和参政力量。一方面，执政党对参政党、参政力量进行政治领导，即政治原则、政治方向和重大方针政策的领导，同时支持他们独立自主开展工作，自觉接受他们监督。另一方面，参政党、参政力量认同执政党的基本理论、基本路线、基本方略，在执政党领导下参与国家治理，围绕国家经济社会发展重大问题献计出力，对执政党进行协商式、合作性政治监督。中国新型政党制度在执政与参政、领导与合作、协商与监督的有机统一中，把各个政党和无党派人士紧密团结起来、为着共同目标而奋斗，有效避免了一党缺乏监督或者多党轮流坐庄、恶性竞争的弊端；通过广泛协商达成思想共识、目标认同和行动统一，有利于促进政治团结和有序参与；围绕坚持和发展中国特色社会主义、实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦，形成共同的理想、共同的事业、共同的行动，汇聚起强大的社会合力，集中力量办大事、办好事。

III. The Leadership of the Communist Party of China Ensures That China’s New Type of Party System Can, Through Institutionalized, Standardized, and Procedural Arrangements, Centralize Various Opinions and Suggestions and Promote Scientific and Democratic Decision-Making

三、中国共产党领导，确保中国新型政党制度能够通过制度化、规范化、程序化的安排，集中各种意见和建议、推动决策科学化民主化

China’s new type of party system is a product of the combination of Marxist party theory with China’s actual conditions, rooted in fine traditional Chinese culture, gestated in the historical process of China’s democratic revolution in modern times, and formed in the great practice of negotiating the founding of New China. Comrade Mao Zedong creatively laid the political foundation for the People’s Political Consultative Conference to play the role of consultative democracy institutionally, ensuring the establishment and implementation of the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC as a basic political system. After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CPC [3]3 The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the CPC, held in December 1978, marked a historic turning point in China’s political and economic direction, initiating the policy of reform and opening up., Comrade Deng Xiaoping reaffirmed that the democratic parties are “political forces serving socialism” and pointed out that “the practice of multiparty cooperation under the leadership of the CPC is determined by China’s specific historical conditions and actual circumstances, and is also a feature and advantage of China’s political system.” The CPC Central Committee, adapting to the new situation in the development of the united front and the cause of multiparty cooperation, formulated several important documents, clearly defining the democratic parties as close friends cooperating wholeheartedly with the CPC and as participating parties dedicated to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and clearly defining the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC as a basic political system of China and enshrining it in the Constitution, guaranteeing its long-term existence and development. In the New Era, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically summarized the historical experience of the development of this basic political system over more than 70 years, and, proceeding from the practical requirements of developing whole-process people’s democracy, made the major theoretical innovation that it is “a new type of party system that has grown out of China’s soil,” taking it as an important aspect of the modernization of the state governance system and governance capacity, and striving to make it more mature and more well-defined; he made a clear definition of the various democratic parties as “socialist participating parties with Chinese characteristics,” further clarifying basic issues such as their nature and positioning, basic functions, self-building, and capacity enhancement, and expressed the hope that they would be good advisors, good helpers, and good colleagues of the CPC, and consciously become witnesses, practitioners, defenders, and defenders of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

中国新型政党制度是马克思主义政党理论同中国实际相结合的产物，植根于中华优秀传统文化，孕育于近代以来中国民主革命的历史进程，形成于协商筹建新中国的伟大实践。毛泽东同志从制度上创造性地为人民政协发挥协商民主作用奠定了政治基础，保证了中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度作为基本政治制度的确立和实施。党的十一届三中全会后，邓小平同志重新肯定民主党派是“为社会主义服务的政治力量”，指出“在中国共产党的领导下，实行多党派的合作，这是我国具体历史条件和现实条件所决定的，也是我国政治制度中的一个特点和优点”。中共中央适应统一战线和多党合作事业发展的新形势，制定多份重要文件，将民主党派明确为同中国共产党通力合作的亲密友党、致力于中国特色社会主义事业的参政党，将中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度明确为我国的一项基本政治制度并载入宪法，保障其长期存在和发展。新时代以来，习近平总书记系统总结这一基本政治制度70多年发展的历史经验，从发展全过程人民民主的现实要求出发，作出它是“从中国土壤中生长出来的新型政党制度”的重大理论创新，将其作为国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的一个重要方面，着力推进其更加成熟、更加定型；作出各民主党派是“中国特色社会主义参政党”的清晰界定，进一步明确其性质定位、基本职能、自身建设、能力提升等基本问题，希望其做中国共产党的好参谋、好帮手、好同事，自觉做中国特色社会主义事业的亲历者、实践者、维护者、捍卫者。

From the growth and development of China’s new type of party system, it can be seen that it is precisely the leadership of the CPC that enables this system, through institutionalized, standardized, and procedural arrangements such as party consultation, participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, and democratic supervision, to centralize opinions and suggestions from all sides and promote scientific and democratic decision-making. Regarding party consultation, the CPC has clearly put forward this concept and embedded it within the socialist consultative democracy system, standardizing its forms, determining its procedures, clarifying the responsibilities of organizers and participants, and establishing and improving guarantee mechanisms, thereby effectively expanding the orderly political participation of the democratic parties and non-party personages in the practice of the New Era, smoothing channels for expressing opinions, consolidating broad political consensus, and promoting scientific and democratic decision-making. Regarding democratic supervision, the CPC has listed it as an important component of the socialist supervision system with Chinese characteristics, distinguishing its direction, defining its nature, clarifying its content, and specifying its forms, thereby effectively promoting the CPC’s improvement of its work style and the realization of scientific, democratic, and law-based governance in the practice of the New Era. Regarding participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, the CPC has established and improved various systems, supporting both the performance of duties and responsibilities by members of the democratic parties and non-party personages in people’s congresses, governments, and judicial organs at all levels, and supporting the democratic parties and non-party personages in closely centering on the central work of the state to offer advice and suggestions and contribute efforts, thereby optimizing the allocation of political resources from all sides in the practice of the New Era, forming a system and mechanism for broad participation of all sectors of society in state governance, and advancing the modernization of the state governance system and governance capacity.

从中国新型政党制度的成长发展可以看出，正是中国共产党的领导，使得这一制度通过政党协商、参政议政、民主监督等制度化、规范化、程序化的安排，集中各方面意见和建议，推动决策科学化民主化。就政党协商而言，中国共产党明确提出这一概念并将其内置于社会主义协商民主体系，规范形式、确定程序，明确组织者和参与者的责任，建立健全保障机制，进而在新时代的实践中有效扩大民主党派和无党派人士的有序政治参与，畅通意见表达渠道，凝聚广泛政治共识，促进科学民主决策。就民主监督而言，中国共产党将其列为中国特色社会主义监督体系的重要组成部分，区分方向、界定性质、明确内容、规定形式，进而在新时代的实践中有力推动中国共产党加强和改进工作作风，实现科学执政、民主执政、依法执政。就参政议政而言，中国共产党建立健全各项制度，既支持各级人大、政府和司法机关中的民主党派成员和无党派人士履职尽责、担当作为，也支持各民主党派、无党派人士紧紧围绕国家中心工作议政建言、献计出力，进而在新时代的实践中优化各方面政治资源的配置，形成社会各界广泛参与国家治理的体制机制，推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。

On the basis of democratic centralism, China’s new type of party system seeks common ground while reserving differences, forming a mechanism for discovering and correcting errors and reducing mistakes. The CPC actively incorporates party consultation into the decision-making process, repeatedly soliciting opinions from the democratic parties and non-party personages before and during the implementation of decisions, making rational and prudent decisions and implementing policies, and enhancing the scientific nature of decisions and the effectiveness of policy implementation. The democratic parties and non-party personages reflect the specific interests of the masses they represent in the party consultation organized by the CPC, actively and enthusiastically participate in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, continuously expand the channels and ways for playing their role, and responsibly carry out democratic supervision. By seeking common ground through “consultation” and accomplishing tasks through “discussion,” they form a powerful synergy in governing the country.

中国新型政党制度在民主集中的基础上求同存异，形成发现和改正错误、减少失误的机制。中国共产党主动将政党协商纳入决策程序，在决策之前和决策实施之中反复征求各民主党派、无党派人士的意见，理性审慎决策施策，增强决策的科学性和施策的有效性。各民主党派、无党派人士将其所联系群众的具体利益反映到中国共产党牵头组织的政党协商中，积极踊跃地参政议政，不断拓展发挥作用的渠道和途径，负责任地开展民主监督。以“协”求同、以“商”成事，在治国理政上形成强大合力。

Upholding, developing, and improving China’s new type of party system bears on the long-term governance of our Party and the enduring peace and stability of the country. Practice has proven that China’s new type of party system possesses historical inevitability, great creativity, enormous superiority, and strong vitality, embodies the essence of fine traditional Chinese culture, reflects the essential requirements of the socialist system, conforms to China’s national conditions and the needs of state governance, and is a basic political system conducive to national development, national rejuvenation, social progress, and the happiness of the people. China’s new type of party system has created a new model of party politics, demonstrating unique advantages and strong vitality in China’s political and social life, playing an irreplaceable role in advancing the modernization of the state governance system and governance capacity, and also making a significant contribution to the development of human political civilization.

坚持好、发展好、完善好中国新型政党制度事关我们党长期执政和国家长治久安。实践证明，中国新型政党制度具有历史的必然性、伟大的创造性、巨大的优越性和强大的生命力，体现了中华优秀传统文化的精髓，反映了社会主义制度的本质要求，符合中国国情和国家治理需要，是有利于国家发展、民族振兴、社会进步、人民幸福的基本政治制度。中国新型政党制度创造了一种新的政党政治模式，在中国的政治和社会生活中显示出独特优势和强大生命力，在推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化中发挥了不可替代的作用，也为人类政治文明发展作出了重大贡献。

(Author: Director and Professor of the Department of Marxist Theory Teaching and Research, Central Institute of Socialism)

（作者：中央社会主义学院马克思主义理论教研部主任、教授）

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