Fully Understand and Grasp the Party’s Leading Position and Role in Whole-Process People’s Democracy

General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “An important reason for China’s remarkable governance achievements is that, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, we have taken the political development path of socialism with Chinese characteristics and adhered to and developed whole-process people’s democracy.” The Proposal of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC states: “Uphold the organic unity of Party leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and law-based governance, and develop whole-process people’s democracy.” [1]1 The 15th Five-Year Plan refers to China’s national economic and social development plan for the period 2026–2030, the formulation of which is currently underway. Whole-process people’s democracy is a great political creation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, grounded in China’s national conditions, rooted in China’s soil, and possessing profound historical and cultural heritage. To develop whole-process people’s democracy, it is necessary to fully understand and firmly grasp the leading position and role of the Communist Party of China. Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for developing whole-process people’s democracy, running through the entire chain, all fields, and every link of whole-process people’s democracy practice, ensuring that the people being the masters of the country is fully implemented. It must always be upheld and comprehensively strengthened.

习近平总书记指出：“中国治理之所以取得举世瞩目的成就，很重要的一条经验就是，在中国共产党领导下走中国特色社会主义政治发展道路，坚持和发展全过程人民民主。”党的二十届四中全会《建议》提出：“坚持党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一，发展全过程人民民主”。全过程人民民主是在中国共产党领导下，立足中国国情、植根中国大地、具有深厚历史文化底蕴的伟大政治创造。发展全过程人民民主，要充分认识和牢牢把握中国共产党的领导地位和作用。党的领导是发展全过程人民民主的根本保证，贯穿于全过程人民民主实践的全链条、各领域、各环节，确保人民当家作主得到全面落实，必须始终坚持、全面加强。

Party Leadership Is the Fundamental Guarantee for Developing Whole-Process People’s Democracy

党的领导是发展全过程人民民主的根本保证

The leading position and role of the Communist Party of China in whole-process people’s democracy have profound theoretical, historical, and practical logic.

中国共产党在全过程人民民主中的领导地位和作用，有着深刻的理论逻辑、历史逻辑和实践逻辑。

An inevitable conclusion of Marxist democratic political theory. On the basis of criticizing the hypocrisy of capitalist democracy, the classical writers of Marxism outlined the blueprint for proletarian democracy. Marxism holds that the historical mission of the proletariat is to establish a democracy that truly belongs to the people. As a new type of democracy, socialist democracy is essentially the people being the masters of the country, with the proletariat and the broad masses of the people as its subjects. However, the people’s realization of being the masters of the country cannot be accomplished spontaneously; it must be organized and led by an advanced proletarian political party. Marx and Engels clearly stated in the *Communist Manifesto*: “The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy.” [2]2 The "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) originated in the 1960s in Fengqiao, Zhejiang Province, as a method of resolving conflicts at the grassroots level through mass work and mediation, and has been continuously promoted and updated in the New Era. This indicates that winning democracy and establishing a political power where the people are the masters of the country is the primary task of a proletarian political party. Socialist democracy is the democracy of the overwhelming majority of the people. It requires the strong leadership of a proletarian political party to ensure that democracy develops in the correct direction and to prevent it from degenerating into anarchism or being re-appropriated by the bourgeoisie. Interest articulation and interest aggregation, or representation, are important functions of all political parties. People’s democracy can only be led and promoted by a political party that represents the interests of the people. The Communist Party of China has always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people and has no special interests of its own. Therefore, it can effectively integrate the will and demands of all social strata and aspects within the complex interest structure, forging a strong synergy for national governance. Whole-process people’s democracy is precisely the great creation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China that combines Marxist democratic political theory with China’s excellent traditional political culture and China’s concrete realities, ensuring the people’s character of democracy and avoiding the ills of capital games and political showmanship characteristic of Western democracy.

马克思主义民主政治理论的必然结论。马克思主义经典作家在批判资本主义民主虚伪性的基础上，擘画了无产阶级民主的蓝图。马克思主义认为，无产阶级的历史使命，就是要建立真正属于人民的民主。社会主义民主作为新型民主，其本质是无产阶级和广大人民群众当家作主。然而，人民群众实现当家作主，不能自发完成，必须由先进的无产阶级政党来组织和领导。马克思和恩格斯在《共产党宣言》中明确指出：“工人革命的第一步就是使无产阶级上升为统治阶级，争得民主。”这表明，争得民主、建立人民当家作主的政权，是无产阶级政党的首要任务。社会主义民主是绝大多数人的民主，必须有无产阶级政党的坚强领导，才能确保民主沿着正确的方向发展，防止其蜕变为无政府主义或被资产阶级重新利用。利益表达和利益综合，或者说代表性，是所有政党的重要功能。人民民主只能由代表人民利益的政党来领导和推动。中国共产党始终代表中国最广大人民的根本利益，没有任何自己特殊的利益，因此能够在错综复杂的利益格局中，有效整合社会各阶层、各方面的意志和诉求，凝聚起国家治理的强大合力。全过程人民民主正是在中国共产党领导下，将马克思主义民主政治理论与中华优秀传统政治文化、中国具体实际相结合的伟大创造，确保了民主的人民性，避免了西方民主的资本游戏和政治秀场弊病。

An inevitable choice in the historical development of people’s democracy in China over more than a century. General Secretary Xi Jinping repeatedly emphasizes: “History is the best textbook.” [3] Historical development reveals not only experiences and lessons but also historical laws. The history of the Communist Party of China’s struggle is a history of uniting and leading the Chinese people in the pursuit of national independence, people’s liberation, national prosperity, and people’s well-being, and it is also a history of continuously exploring and developing people’s democracy. From the day of its founding, the Communist Party of China has taken “the people being the masters of the country” as an unswerving value pursuit. In the process of leading revolution, construction, and reform, it has always adhered to the mass line, forming the fundamental working method of “from the masses, to the masses.” From military democracy and worker-peasant democracy during the revolutionary war years, to the “Three-Thirds System” democratic political power construction in the anti-Japanese base areas; [4] from the establishment of the people’s congress system as the fundamental political system after the founding of New China, to the establishment and improvement of the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, and the system of grassroots self-governance—the magnificent history shows that without the leadership of the Communist Party of China, there would be no people being the masters of the country, and no establishment and development of socialist democracy. Party leadership and people’s democracy are inherently unified. Only the Communist Party of China can lead and guarantee the people being the masters of the country.

中国百余年人民民主历史发展的必然选择。习近平总书记反复强调：“历史是最好的教科书”。历史发展展示的不仅是经验教训，还包括历史规律。中国共产党的奋斗史，是一部团结带领中国人民谋求民族独立、人民解放和国家富强、人民幸福的历史，也是一部不断探索和发展人民民主的历史。中国共产党自诞生之日起，就将“人民当家作主”作为矢志不渝的价值追求，在领导革命、建设、改革的过程中，始终坚持走群众路线，形成了“从群众中来，到群众中去”的根本工作方法。从革命战争年代的军事民主、工农民主，到抗日根据地的“三三制”民主政权建设；从新中国成立后确立人民代表大会制度这一根本政治制度，到建立和完善中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度、民族区域自治制度以及基层群众自治制度，波澜壮阔的历史表明，没有中国共产党的领导，就没有人民当家作主，就没有社会主义民主的建立和发展。党的领导与人民民主内在统一，只有中国共产党才能领导和保障人民当家作主。

An inevitable requirement for advancing whole-process people’s democracy in the New Era. In the process of modernization, a strong political core is an inevitable requirement for a country to maintain the balance between development and stability. To develop whole-process people’s democracy and advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, it is necessary to uphold and strengthen Party leadership. Party leadership is comprehensive, systematic, and holistic, inevitably including leadership over democratic politics. General Secretary Xi Jinping

新时代推进全过程人民民主的必然要求。在现代化的过程中，一个强大的政治核心是国家保持发展与稳定之间平衡的必然要求。发展全过程人民民主，推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化，必须坚持和加强党的领导。党的领导是全面、系统、整体的，必然包括对民主政治的领导。习近平总书记强调：“只有中国共产党才能坚持立党为公、执政为民，充分发扬民主”。党的领导是确保全过程人民民主始终沿着社会主义方向前进的“指南针”，是激发全社会民主活力、促进民主实践不断深化的“助推器”，是应对国内外各种风险挑战、维护国家政治稳定和社会安定的“压舱石”。在全过程人民民主实践中，党发挥总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，能够有效防止出现群龙无首、一盘散沙的局面，能够克服不同利益群体之间的掣肘和内耗，将民主的价值和理念转化为科学的决策、高效的执行和有力的监督，从而实现过程民主和成果民主、程序民主和实质民主、直接民主和间接民主、人民民主和国家意志相统一。只有坚持党的领导，才能确保民主选举、民主协商、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督各个环节环环相扣、形成合力，构建起全链条、全方位、全覆盖的民主政治格局，使人民当家作主更具体、更深入、更有效地体现在国家政治生活和社会生活的方方面面。

The Concrete Embodiment and Institutional Guarantee of Party Leadership in Whole-Process People's Democracy

党的领导在全过程人民民主中的具体体现与制度保障

The Party's leadership in developing whole-process people's democracy is concretely and practically embodied in the entire process and all aspects of governance through a series of scientific and complete institutional arrangements and specific operational mechanisms.

党对发展全过程人民民主的领导，通过一系列科学、完备的制度安排和具体的运作机制，具体地、现实地体现在治国理政的全过程和各方面。

The Party's leadership over whole-process people's democracy is realized through the fundamental political system and basic political systems. The Party's leadership over whole-process people's democracy is first of all reflected as an institutionalized leadership. The system of people's congresses, as China's fundamental political system, is the most important institutional vehicle for the Party to lead whole-process people's democracy. Through the system of people's congresses, the Party's propositions become the will of the state through statutory procedures, the candidates recommended by Party organizations become leading personnel of state power organs through statutory procedures, and the Party's line, principles, policies, and decisions are comprehensively implemented and effectively executed in state work. The system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China provides a basic institutional framework for democratic consultation. Through the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a specialized consultative body, the Party conducts extensive consultation with various democratic parties, personages without party affiliation, and people from all sectors of society on major state policies and important issues in economic and social development, extensively gathering opinions and pooling wisdom to achieve scientific and democratic decision-making. In addition, the system of regional ethnic autonomy and the system of grassroots self-governance are also important institutional arrangements under the Party's leadership to ensure that people in specific regions and at the grassroots level exercise their right to be masters of the country.

党对全过程人民民主的领导通过根本政治制度和基本政治制度得以实现。党对全过程人民民主的领导，首先体现为一种制度化的领导。人民代表大会制度作为我国的根本政治制度，是党领导全过程人民民主最重要的制度载体。通过人民代表大会制度，党的主张经过法定程序成为国家意志，党组织推荐的人选经过法定程序成为国家政权机关的领导人员，党的路线方针政策和决策部署在国家工作中得到全面贯彻和有效执行。中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度，为民主协商提供基本制度框架。党通过政协这一专门协商机构，与各民主党派、无党派人士和社会各界人士就国家大政方针和经济社会发展中的重大问题进行广泛协商，广纳群言、广集民智，实现科学决策、民主决策。此外，民族区域自治制度和基层群众自治制度，也都是在党的领导下，保障特定区域人民和基层群众行使当家作主权利的重要制度安排。

The Party’s leadership over whole-process people’s democracy runs through the entire chain of democratic elections, democratic consultations, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision. Whole-process people’s democracy is a complete chain, and the Party’s leading role is manifested at every key node of this chain. In the link of democratic elections, the principle of the Party managing cadres is combined with the people’s elections according to law; through methods such as deliberation, consultation, and recommendation, it is ensured that the elected people’s deputies and leading personnel of state organs are both loyal to the Party and the people and possess the ability to perform their duties, thereby concretely unifying the Party’s leadership and the people being the masters of the country. In the link of democratic consultations, the Party is the initiator, organizer, and guide of consultative democracy. Consultations among political parties, consultations by people’s congresses, consultations by governments, consultations by CPPCC committees, consultations by people’s organizations, consultations at the grassroots level, and consultations by social organizations are all conducted in an orderly manner under the unified leadership of the Party. For example, during the drafting process of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Party Central Committee adhered to the principle of soliciting opinions from the public and pooling wisdom from all sides, widely listening to opinions from all sectors of society through various forms such as soliciting opinions online, vividly practicing the consultative spirit of whole-process people’s democracy. In the link of democratic decision-making, democratic centralism is adhered to, integrating the Party’s leadership into the entire process of major decisions. Major legislative plans and important draft laws that concern the national economy and people’s livelihood are all submitted by the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress to the Party Central Committee for approval or reported to the Party Central Committee for instructions in accordance with procedures. This set of procedures ensures that major decisions both conform to the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people and embody the Party’s centralized and unified leadership, achieving scientific and democratic decision-making. In the link of democratic management, the Party, through its extensive organizational system and mass work network, mobilizes and organizes the people to manage state affairs, economic and cultural undertakings, and social affairs according to law, transforming the Party’s leadership capacity into social governance effectiveness. In the link of democratic supervision, the Party leads and supports the people’s congresses, CPPCC committees, supervisory organs, judicial organs, etc., in performing their supervisory duties according to law, while also supporting and ensuring that the people supervise the exercise of power through various channels. For example, establishing the system for the State Council to report on the management of state-owned assets to the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress is a major decision and deployment by the Party Central Committee to strengthen the supervisory function of the people’s congresses and ensure that the power entrusted by the people is always used to serve the people.

党对全过程人民民主的领导贯穿于民主选举、民主协商、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督的全链条。全过程人民民主是一个完整的链条，党的领导作用体现在这个链条的每一个关键节点。在民主选举环节，坚持党管干部原则与人民依法选举相结合，通过酝酿、协商、推荐等方式，确保选出的人民代表和国家机关领导人员既忠于党和人民，又具备履职能力，从而将党的领导和人民当家作主具体地统一起来。在民主协商环节，党是协商民主的倡导者、组织者和引领者。政党协商、人大协商、政府协商、政协协商、人民团体协商、基层协商、社会组织协商，都在党的统一领导下有序开展。例如，在“十五五”规划起草过程中，党中央坚持开门问策、集思广益，通过网络征求意见等多种形式，广泛听取社会各界意见，生动践行了全过程人民民主的协商精神。在民主决策环节，坚持民主集中制，将党的领导融入重大决策的全过程。关系国计民生的重大立法规划、重要法律草案等，均由全国人大常委会党组按程序报请党中央批准或向党中央请示报告。这套程序确保了重大决策既符合最广大人民的根本利益，又体现党的集中统一领导，实现了决策的科学化和民主化。在民主管理环节，党通过广泛的组织体系和群众工作网络，动员和组织人民群众依法管理国家事务、经济文化事业和社会事务，将党的领导力转化为社会治理效能。在民主监督环节，党领导和支持人大、政协、监察机关、司法机关等依法履行监督职责，同时支持和保障人民群众通过各种渠道对权力运行进行监督。例如，建立国务院向全国人大常委会报告国有资产管理情况的制度，就是党中央加强人大监督职能、确保人民赋予的权力始终用来为人民服务的重大决策部署。

The Party Leadership Group system is a key mechanism for the Party to play its leading role in state power organs. To ensure that the Party’s theories, lines, principles, and policies are implemented in state work, the Party establishes Party Leadership Groups in the leading organs of central and local state organs, people’s organizations, economic organizations, cultural organizations, and other non-Party organizations. The Party Leadership Group plays the core leading role of “setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation” within its unit. Taking legislative work as an example, the Party Leadership Group of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress plays a key role in formulating the legislative agenda, reviewing important draft laws, and coordinating major disagreements in legislative work. Before an important draft law is submitted to a meeting of the Standing Committee for deliberation, it is often studied and discussed by the Party Leadership Group meeting of the Standing Committee to reach consensus on its major principles and key provisions; for complex issues involving major institutional and policy adjustments, the Party Leadership Group promptly reports to the Party Central Committee for instructions, and only after the Party Central Committee clarifies the direction does it proceed with the subsequent statutory deliberation procedures. This mechanism ensures that legislative work always adheres to the correct political direction and ensures that the Party’s propositions and the people’s will are accurately transformed into national laws. It can be said that the Party Leadership Group system is the “converter” and “connector” that realizes the organic unity of the Party’s leadership and the lawful performance of duties by state organs, and it is an important institutional guarantee for the Party to implement specific leadership in whole-process people’s democracy.

党组制度是党在国家政权机关中发挥领导作用的关键机制。为了保证党的理论和路线方针政策在国家工作中得到贯彻落实，党在中央和地方国家机关、人民团体、经济组织、文化组织和其他非党组织的领导机关中设立党组。党组在本单位发挥着“把方向、管大局、保落实”的核心领导作用。以立法工作为例，全国人大常委会党组在立法议程的制定、重要法律草案的审议、立法工作中重大分歧的协调等方面扮演着关键角色。一部重要法律草案在提请常委会会议审议前，往往由常委会党组会议进行研究讨论，对其中的重大原则和关键条款达成共识；对于涉及重大体制和政策调整的复杂问题，党组及时向党中央请示报告，待党中央明确方向后，再继续推进后续的法定审议程序。这一机制确保了立法工作始终坚持正确的政治方向，确保将党的主张和人民的意愿精准地转化为国家法律。可以说，党组制度是实现党的领导与国家机关依法履职有机统一的“转换器”和“连接器”，是党在全过程人民民主中实施具体领导的重要制度保障。

Further strengthen the Party’s overall leadership and promote the continuous development of whole-process people’s democracy

进一步加强党的全面领导，推动全过程人民民主不断发展

Under the strong leadership of the Party, the practice of whole-process people’s democracy in the New Era has achieved fruitful results, demonstrating strong vitality and dynamism, profoundly changing China’s political ecology, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to world political civilization. To develop whole-process people’s democracy, we must unswervingly uphold and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership, continuously improve the Party’s ability and level in leading democratic political construction, and let the people being the masters of the country shine with even more splendid brilliance.

在党的坚强领导下，新时代全过程人民民主实践取得了丰硕成果，彰显出强大的生机与活力，深刻改变了中国的政治生态，也为世界政治文明贡献了中国智慧和中国方案。发展全过程人民民主，必须毫不动摇地坚持和加强党的全面领导，不断提高党领导民主政治建设的能力和水平，让人民当家作主焕发出更加绚丽的光彩。

Continuously deepen the understanding of the laws governing the organic unity of upholding the Party’s leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and law-based governance. Upholding the organic unity of the three is an inevitable requirement for the development of socialist democratic politics and a core concept that must be firmly grasped in advancing whole-process people’s democracy. Upholding the Party’s leadership is to better realize the people being the masters of the country; the people being the masters of the country is the essence and core of socialist democracy and must be realized under the Party’s leadership; law-based governance is the basic way for the Party to lead the people in governing the country, providing legal guarantees for the Party’s leadership and the people being the masters of the country. The three are not separate but an indivisible whole. We must continuously deepen our understanding of the inherent unified relationship among the three, achieving thorough integration in thought. At the same time, we must be adept at using Marxist standpoints, viewpoints, and methods to analyze and solve practical problems in China’s democratic political construction, accelerate the construction of a democratic discourse system with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese manner, confidently tell the

持续深化对坚持党的领导、人民当家作主、依法治国有机统一的规律性认识。坚持三者有机统一，是社会主义民主政治发展的必然要求，也是推进全过程人民民主必须牢牢把握的核心理念。坚持党的领导，是为了更好地实现人民当家作主；人民当家作主，是社会主义民主的本质和核心，必须在党的领导下实现；依法治国，是党领导人民治理国家的基本方式，为党的领导和人民当家作主提供法治保障。三者不是割裂的，而是一个不可分割的整体。我们必须不断深化对三者内在统一关系的认识，在思想上真正做到融会贯通。同时，要善于运用马克思主义立场观点方法分析和解决我国民主政治建设中的实际问题，加快构建具有中国特色、中国风格、中国气派的民主话语体系，理直气壮地讲好中国民主故事，增强道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信。坚持理念先行，通过加强理论武装和宣传教育，引导全党全社会深刻理解全过程人民民主的科学内涵和重大意义，为发展全过程人民民主凝聚最广泛的价值共识。

Continuously improve the institutional system through which the Party exercises overall leadership and coordinates the efforts of all parties. To strengthen the Party's leadership over whole-process people's democracy, it is necessary to continuously improve the systems through which the Party leads the people's congresses, governments, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), supervisory organs, adjudicative organs, procuratorial organs, armed forces, people's organizations, enterprises and public institutions, primary-level mass autonomous organizations, and social organizations, ensuring that the Party fully plays its leadership role in all types of organizations. Further improve the mechanisms for implementing the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and improve the procedures for the Party Central Committee to lead and make decisions on major issues in legislative and judicial work. Optimize the establishment and operational mechanisms of Party Leadership Groups [1]1 The 15th Five-Year Plan refers to China’s national economic and social development plan for the period 2026–2030, the formulation of which is currently underway. in state organs, clarify the scope and procedures of their deliberation and decision-making, ensuring that Party Leadership Groups can both effectively play their role as the core of leadership and fully support and guarantee that state organs independently assume responsibility and work in a coordinated manner in accordance with the law. In terms of decision-making mechanisms, improve the deliberation rules and decision-making procedures of Party committees (Party Leadership Groups), making public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legality review, and collective discussion and decision the statutory procedures for major decisions, thereby raising the level of scientific, democratic, and law-based decision-making. In terms of implementation mechanisms, strengthen the pivotal role of the Party's organizational system in implementing decisions, ensuring that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are smoothly implemented without obstruction. In terms of supervision mechanisms, take intra-Party supervision as the leading force, promote the organic integration and mutual coordination of various types of supervision, including people's congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, forming a normalized and long-lasting supervisory synergy to ensure that democratic practices do not deviate or become distorted.

不断健全党总揽全局、协调各方的制度体系。加强党对全过程人民民主的领导，必须不断完善党领导人大、政府、政协、监察机关、审判机关、检察机关、武装力量、人民团体、企事业单位、基层群众性自治组织、社会组织等制度，确保党在各种组织中充分发挥领导作用。进一步健全党中央重大决策部署贯彻落实机制，完善党中央对立法、司法等工作中重大问题的领导和决策程序。优化党组在国家机关中的设置和运行机制，厘清党组议事决策范围和程序，确保党组既能有效发挥领导核心作用，又能充分支持和保障国家机关依法独立负责、协调一致地开展工作。在决策机制上，完善党委（党组）议事规则和决策程序，将公众参与、专家论证、风险评估、合法性审查、集体讨论决定作为重大决策的法定程序，提高决策的科学化、民主化、法治化水平。在执行机制上，强化党的组织体系在贯彻落实决策中的枢纽作用，确保党中央决策部署政令畅通、令行禁止。在监督机制上，以党内监督为主导，推动人大监督、民主监督、行政监督、司法监督、群众监督、舆论监督等各类监督有机贯通、相互协调，形成常态长效的监督合力，确保民主实践不走样、不变形。

Continuously improve the Party's level of scientific, democratic, and law-based governance. Adhere to using intra-Party democracy to drive people's democracy. Intra-Party democracy is the lifeblood of the Party and an important manifestation of people's democracy. It is necessary to continuously improve the system of intra-Party democracy, further broaden the channels for Party members to participate in Party affairs, and use the fuller development of intra-Party democracy to lead and promote the formation and development of a democratic atmosphere in the whole society. Enhance the ability to use legal thinking and legal methods to deepen reform, promote development, resolve conflicts, maintain stability, and respond to risks; be adept at turning the Party's propositions into the will of the state through statutory procedures; be adept at turning the candidates recommended by Party organizations into leading personnel of state power organs through statutory procedures; and be adept at implementing the Party's leadership over the state and society through state power organs. Uphold and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" [2]2 The "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) originated in the 1960s in Fengqiao, Zhejiang Province, as a method of resolving conflicts at the grassroots level through mass work and mediation, and has been continuously promoted and updated in the New Era. in the New Era, follow the Party's mass line well in the New Era, improve the system for Party members and cadres to maintain contact with the masses, and smooth and standardize channels for the expression of demands, coordination of interests, and protection of rights and interests of the masses, ensuring that the people's rights to be informed, to participate, to express, and to supervise are implemented in all areas and aspects of national governance.

不断提高党科学执政、民主执政、依法执政水平。坚持以党内民主带动人民民主。党内民主是党的生命，也是人民民主的重要体现。要不断健全党内民主制度，进一步拓宽党员参与党内事务的渠道，以党内民主的更充分发展，引领和推动全社会民主风气的形成和发展。提高运用法治思维和法治方式深化改革、推动发展、化解矛盾、维护稳定、应对风险的能力，善于使党的主张通过法定程序成为国家意志，善于使党组织推荐的人选通过法定程序成为国家政权机关的领导人员，善于通过国家政权机关实施党对国家和社会的领导。坚持和发展新时代“枫桥经验”，走好新时代党的群众路线，完善党员干部联系群众制度，畅通和规范群众诉求表达、利益协调、权益保障通道，确保人民群众的知情权、参与权、表达权、监督权落实到国家治理的各领域各方面。

The leadership of the Communist Party of China is to support and ensure that the people realize their role as masters of the country. Only by unswervingly upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership, and continuously advancing the theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation of whole-process people’s democracy, can we give full play to the advantages and characteristics of our socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics, and provide a solid and reliable political guarantee for the smooth implementation of the 15th Five-Year Plan [1]1 The 15th Five-Year Plan refers to China’s national economic and social development plan for the period 2026–2030, the formulation of which is currently underway. and for the smooth realization of the goals of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

中国共产党的领导，就是支持和保证人民实现当家作主。只有毫不动摇地坚持和加强党的全面领导，不断推进全过程人民民主的理论创新、实践创新、制度创新，才能把我国社会主义民主政治的优势和特点充分发挥出来，为“十五五”规划的顺利实施，为强国建设、民族复兴目标的顺利实现提供坚实可靠的政治保证。

(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China)

（作者为中央党史和文献研究院研究员）