Uphold, Develop, and Perfect China’s New-Type Party System

The system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China is a basic political system of our country. It is rooted in Chinese soil, manifests Chinese wisdom, and actively draws on and absorbs the outstanding achievements of human political civilization. It is China’s new-type party system. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly and incisively elaborated on the concept of the “new-type party system” and its unique advantages and distinctive features, emphasizing the need to strengthen institutional confidence, uphold, develop, and perfect China’s new-type party system, and strive to enhance its effectiveness. These important expositions demonstrate a high degree of confidence in the path, confidence in the theory, confidence in the system, and confidence in the culture [n1], pointing the way forward and providing fundamental guidance for the development of the cause of multiparty cooperation in the New Era.

中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度是我国的一项基本政治制度，既根植中国土壤、彰显中国智慧，又积极借鉴和吸收人类政治文明优秀成果，是中国新型政党制度。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记多次精辟阐述“新型政党制度”概念和这一制度的独特优势、鲜明特色，强调要坚定制度自信，坚持好、发展好、完善好中国新型政党制度，着力提升中国新型政党制度效能。这些重要论述彰显出高度的道路自信、理论自信、制度自信、文化自信，为新时代多党合作事业发展指明了前进方向、提供了根本遵循。

I. China’s New-Type Party System Is a Great Political Creation

一、中国新型政党制度是一项伟大政治创造

What kind of party system a country adopts is determined by its historical traditions and actual national conditions. The system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC emerged, developed, and was perfected through the long-term practice of revolution, construction, and reform. It embodies the collective wisdom of several generations of Chinese Communists and is an important component of China’s socialist democratic politics and national governance system.

一个国家实行什么样的政党制度，是由这个国家的历史传统和现实国情决定的。中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度是在革命、建设、改革的长期实践中产生、发展和完善起来的，凝聚着几代中国共产党人的集体智慧，是我国社会主义民主政治、国家治理体系的重要组成部分。

After the Opium War [n2], a number of enlightened individuals attempted to reform China’s political system to save the nation from its increasingly severe crisis. However, both the constitutional monarchy advocated by the bourgeois reformists and the Western multiparty system that the revolutionary forerunner Sun Yat-sen and others tried to emulate ended in failure. After the founding of the CPC, it advocated uniting all progressive forces and establishing a democratic united front. In October 1939, Mao Zedong pointed out in the “Introduction to *The Communist*”: “The united front, armed struggle, and Party building are the three magic weapons, the three principal magic weapons, with which the CPC has defeated the enemy in the Chinese revolution.” The thesis of the “three magic weapons” provided an important theoretical foundation for the formation of China’s multiparty cooperation system. In January 1940, in *On New Democracy*, Mao Zedong comprehensively expounded the political program of new democracy, emphasizing the need to “establish a new democratic republic under the leadership of the proletariat, based on the worker-peasant alliance, and with a joint dictatorship of all revolutionary classes.” In the long struggle to jointly resist Japanese imperialist aggression and oppose the dictatorial rule of the Kuomintang, the CPC established close cooperative relations with the democratic parties.

鸦片战争后，一批有识之士试图革新中国政治制度以挽救日益严重的民族危机。但无论是资产阶级维新派主张的君主立宪制，还是以孙中山为代表的中国革命先驱试图效仿的西方多党制，都以失败而告终。中国共产党成立后，主张团结所有进步力量、建立民主联合阵线。1939年10月，毛泽东在《〈共产党人〉发刊词》中指出：“统一战线、武装斗争、党的建设，是中国共产党在中国革命中战胜敌人的三个法宝，三个主要的法宝。”“三大法宝”的论断，为中国多党合作制度的形成提供了重要理论基础。1940年1月，毛泽东在《新民主主义论》中全面阐述了新民主主义的政治纲领，强调要“建立一个无产阶级领导的、以工农联盟为基础的、各革命阶级联合专政的新民主主义共和国”。在长期共同抗击日本帝国主义侵略、反对国民党独裁统治的斗争中，中国共产党与各民主党派建立了亲密的合作关系。

China’s new-type party system took shape in the great practice of negotiating the founding of New China. As the revolutionary situation continued to develop, the task of establishing New China was placed on the historical agenda. In April 1948, the CPC issued the May Day slogans [n3], calling on “all democratic parties, people’s organizations, and social luminaries to promptly convene a political consultative conference to discuss and realize the convening of a people’s congress and the establishment of a democratic coalition government.” The May Day slogans quickly received an enthusiastic response from all democratic parties, non-party personages, and all sectors of society. This also marked the open and conscious acceptance of the leadership of the CPC by all democratic parties and non-party personages, unveiled the prelude to the CPC’s consultation with all parties, groups, and people of all ethnic groups and walks of life on the founding of the state, and laid the foundation for the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC. In November 1948, representatives of the CPC Central Committee and democratic personages reached an agreement “On Several Issues Concerning the Convening of a New Political Consultative Conference,” discussing the convocation of the new CPPCC, its participants, time and place, and matters to be discussed. In September 1949, the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was convened, adopting the *Common Program of the CPPCC* and formally establishing the new-type party system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC.

中国新型政党制度形成于协商筹建新中国的伟大实践。随着革命形势的不断发展，建立新中国的任务被提上了历史日程。1948年4月，中国共产党发布纪念“五一”劳动节口号，号召“各民主党派、各人民团体、各社会贤达迅速召开政治协商会议，讨论并实现召集人民代表大会，成立民主联合政府”。“五一”口号迅速得到了各民主党派、无党派人士和社会各界热烈响应，这也标志着各民主党派、无党派人士公开自觉接受中国共产党的领导，揭开了中国共产党同各党派、各团体、各族各界人士协商建国的序幕，奠定了中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度的基础。1948年11月，中共中央代表和民主人士达成《关于召开新的政治协商会议诸问题》的协议，讨论了新政协召集问题、参加者、时间地点以及应讨论事宜等。1949年9月，中国人民政治协商会议第一届全体会议召开，通过了《中国人民政治协商会议共同纲领》，正式确立了中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商这一新型政党制度。

China’s new-type party system developed through the great process of socialist revolution, construction, and reform. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, all democratic parties and non-party personages were invited to participate in the state power, and the new-type party system was fully implemented and carried out. In March 1950, the first National United Front Work Conference clarified the nature, role, and status of the democratic parties, proposed the principles and guidelines for multiparty cooperation, and promoted the healthy development of the democratic parties. In April 1956, Mao Zedong pointed out in *On the Ten Major Relationships* that in the relationship between the Communist Party and other democratic parties, the policy of “long-term coexistence and mutual oversight” should be implemented. In September 1982, the 12th National Congress of the CPC added “treating each other with sincerity and sharing honor and disgrace” to the basis of “long-term coexistence and mutual oversight.” In December 1989, the CPC Central Committee issued the “Opinions on Upholding and Improving the System of Multiparty Cooperation and Political Consultation under the Leadership of the CPC,” for the first time defining the system as “a basic political system of our country.” In March 1993, “the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC will exist and develop for a long time” was formally written into the Constitution. In February 2005, the CPC Central Committee issued the “Opinions on Further Strengthening the Construction of the System of Multiparty Cooperation and Political Consultation under the Leadership of the CPC,” pointing out that the new-type party system is “a socialist party system with Chinese characteristics.” In February 2006, the CPC Central Committee issued the “Opinions on Strengthening the Work of the CPPCC,” and the new-type party system was further developed.

中国新型政党制度发展于社会主义革命、建设、改革的伟大进程。中华人民共和国成立后，各民主党派、无党派人士应邀参加政权，中国新型政党制度得到了全面贯彻和实施。1950年3月，第一次全国统战工作会议明确了民主党派的性质、作用和地位，提出了多党间合作的方针和原则等，促进了民主党派的健康发展。1956年4月，毛泽东在《论十大关系》中指出，在共产党和其他民主党派的关系上，要实行“长期共存，互相监督”的方针。1982年9月，党的十二大在“长期共存、互相监督”基础上新增“肝胆相照、荣辱与共”。1989年12月，中共中央发布《关于坚持和完善中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度的意见》，首次将中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度确定为“我国一项基本政治制度”。1993年3月，“中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度将长期存在和发展”被正式写入宪法。2005年2月，中共中央印发《关于进一步加强中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度建设的意见》，指出新型政党制度是“具有中国特色的社会主义政党制度”。2006年2月，中共中央发布《关于加强人民政协工作的意见》，中国新型政党制度进一步发展。

China’s new-type party system was perfected in the New Era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In November 2012, the 18th National Congress of the CPC proposed that “socialist consultative democracy is an important form of people’s democracy in our country.” In February 2015, the CPC Central Committee issued the “Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Socialist Consultative Democracy,” requiring the improvement of forms of consultation between parties and the strengthening of consultation mechanism construction. In December of the same year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the “Implementation Opinions on Strengthening Consultation between Parties,” clearly stipulating the guiding ideology, significance, content, forms, procedures, and safeguard mechanisms of consultation between parties. In October 2019, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee emphasized the need to continue improving relevant systems and methods to “demonstrate the advantages of our country’s new-type party system.” In December 2020, the *Regulations on the Work of the United Front of the CPC* was issued, further enhancing the scientific, standardized, and institutionalized level of the new-type party system. In June 2021, the white paper *China’s New-Type Party System* was released, comprehensively reviewing the process of the emergence, development, and continuous improvement of the new-type party system, introducing its distinctive features, and summarizing and sharing the important achievements and successful experiences of the construction of the new-type party system, especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC. In October 2022, the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC clearly stated the need to leverage the advantages of the socialist new-type party system, adhere to the “sixteen-character policy” [n4], strengthen cooperation with all democratic parties and non-party personages, and support the democratic parties in better performing their functions.

中国新型政党制度完善于中国特色社会主义新时代。2012年11月，党的十八大提出“社会主义协商民主是我国人民民主的重要形式”。2015年2月，中共中央印发《关于加强社会主义协商民主建设的意见》，要求完善政党协商形式、加强协商机制建设。同年12月，中共中央办公厅印发《关于加强政党协商的实施意见》，明确规定政党协商的指导思想和重要意义、内容、形式、程序、保障机制等。2019年10月，党的十九届四中全会强调，要继续完善相关制度方法，“展现我国新型政党制度优势”。2020年12月，《中国共产党统一战线工作条例》印发，进一步提升了新型政党制度科学化、规范化、制度化水平。2021年6月，《中国新型政党制度》白皮书发布，全面回顾了新型政党制度产生、发展和不断完善的历程，介绍了这一制度的鲜明特色，总结分享了长期以来，特别是党的十八大以来，中国新型政党制度建设取得的重要成果和成功经验。2022年10月，党的二十大报告明确提出要发挥社会主义新型政党制度优势，坚持“十六字方针”，加强同各民主党派和无党派人士的合作，支持民主党派更好履行其职能。

II. China’s New-Type Party System Demonstrates Unique Advantages and Strong Vitality

二、中国新型政党制度显示出了独特优势和强大生命力

China’s new-type party system has created a new model of party politics, demonstrating unique advantages and strong vitality in China’s political and social life. It has played an irreplaceable role in advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and has also made significant contributions to the development of human political civilization.

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。

The new type of party system can genuinely, extensively, and durably represent and realize the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people and the fundamental interests of all ethnic groups and all walks of life across the country, effectively avoiding the defect of old-type party systems that represent only a minority or a few interest groups. The superiority of the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China is ultimately embodied in its representation of the people’s interests: the broader the representation, the stronger the capacity to realize those interests, and the greater the superiority. The Communist Party of China is a proletarian party guided by Marxism, which “always represents the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people” and “has no special interests of its own.” [1]1 Quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC, July 1, 2021. In essence, the Party’s interests and the people’s interests are completely aligned, and the Party’s standpoint and the people’s standpoint are fully unified. As a country with a large population, China contains different social strata and groups; on the basis of fundamental unity of interests, there exist differences in specific interests. China’s new type of party system respects the will of the majority while accommodating the reasonable demands of the minority; it can better represent the interest demands of different strata and social groups, broaden and smooth various channels for interest expression, and comprehensively, truthfully, and fully reflect the opinions and suggestions of people from all social strata. It thus possesses the advantage of统筹兼顾各方利益和协调各方关系 [2]2 A four-character idiom (统筹兼顾) meaning to make overall plans and take all factors into consideration. — balancing the interests of all sides and coordinating relations among them. At the annual National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference sessions, CPPCC members express the public opinion of different strata and sectors through the system of consultative democracy, while NPC deputies synthesize different “wills of the many” (众意) through democratic centralism into the will of the state, i.e., the “general will” (公意), ultimately realizing the greatest common divisor of the people’s interests.

新型政党制度能够真实、广泛、持久代表和实现最广大人民根本利益、全国各族各界根本利益，有效避免了旧式政党制度代表少数人、少数利益集团的弊端。中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度的优势最终体现为对人民利益的代表性，代表性越广，实现利益的能力越强，优势就越大。中国共产党是以马克思主义为指导思想的无产阶级政党，“始终代表最广大人民根本利益”而“没有任何自己特殊的利益”。从本质上来说，党的利益和人民群众的利益是完全一致的，党的立场和人民群众的立场也是完全统一的。作为一个人口大国，中国存在着不同的阶层和社会群体，在根本利益一致的基础上存在着具体利益的差别。中国新型政党制度既尊重多数人的意愿，又照顾少数人的合理要求，能够更好地代表不同阶层、不同社会群体的利益诉求，拓宽、畅通各种利益表达渠道，全面、真实、充分地反映各社会阶层人士的意见建议，具有统筹兼顾各方利益和协调各方关系的优势。在每年举行的全国人民代表大会和中国人民政治协商会议上，政协委员会通过协商民主制度把不同阶层不同界别的民意表达出来，人大代表通过民主集中制把不同的“众意”综合起来，变成国家意志即“公意”，最终实现人民利益的最大公约数。

The new type of party system closely unites all political parties and non-party personages to strive for common goals, effectively avoiding the defects of a single party lacking supervision or of multiple parties taking turns in power and engaging in vicious competition. The Communist Party of China and the democratic parties are close friends; the CPC conducts sincere political consultation and extensive political cooperation with the democratic parties and non-party personages, continuously consolidating the common ideological and political foundation and jointly reinforcing the political pattern of multiparty cooperation. The CPC adheres to the principles of equal treatment, democratic consultation, and sincere cooperation, supporting members of the democratic parties and non-party personages serving in people’s congresses, governments, and judicial organs at all levels to play their roles and jointly advance the building of state power. The democratic parties and non-party personages closely focus on the central work of the state, fully leverage their advantages in talent concentration, intellectual density, and broad connections, actively participate in political deliberation and offer suggestions, and make important contributions to promoting the development of various national undertakings. Regarding mutual oversight between the CPC and the democratic parties, the CPC and the democratic parties are sincere friends who speak without reservation and forthright friends who correct each other’s faults. Mutual oversight is not about mutual antagonism, not about undermining or hampering each other, but about mutual promotion and joint improvement. The CPC, being in a position of leadership and governance, consciously accepts oversight from the democratic parties. The oversight exercised by the democratic parties is political oversight conducted through the presentation of opinions, criticism, and suggestions; it is a form of consultative oversight and cooperative oversight, aimed at promoting the CPC’s scientific, democratic, and law-based governance. China’s new type of party system achieves a dialectical unity between inter-party democratic oversight and harmonious cooperation, effectively avoiding the defects of a single party lacking supervision or of multiple parties taking turns in power and engaging in vicious competition.

新型政党制度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。中国共产党与各民主党派是亲密友党，中国共产党与各民主党派、无党派人士真诚开展政治协商，广泛实行政治合作，不断夯实共同思想政治基础，协力巩固多党合作的政治格局。中国共产党坚持平等相待、民主协商、真诚合作，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发挥作用，共同推动国家政权建设。各民主党派、无党派人士紧紧围绕国家中心工作，充分发挥人才荟萃、智力密集、联系广泛等优势，积极参政议政、建言献策，为推进国家各项事业发展作出重要贡献。在中国共产党与各民主党派互相监督方面，中国共产党和各民主党派是知无不言的挚友、过失相规的诤友，互相监督不是彼此倾轧，不是相互拆台、相互掣肘，而是相互促进、共同提高。中国共产党处于领导和执政地位，自觉接受各民主党派的监督。各民主党派的监督，是通过提出意见、批评、建议的方式进行的政治监督，是一种协商式监督、合作性监督，是为了促进中国共产党实现科学执政、民主执政、依法执政。中国新型政党制度实现了政党间民主监督与和谐合作的辩证统一，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。

Through institutionalized, procedural, and standardized arrangements, the new type of party system centralizes various opinions and suggestions and promotes scientific and democratic decision-making, effectively avoiding the defect of old-type party systems that, constrained by partisan, class, regional, and group interests in decision-making and governance, lead to social division. China’s new type of party system innovates the forms of realization of socialist consultative democracy, genuinely and effectively promoting the realization of whole-process people’s democracy. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “Whole-process people’s democracy is democracy in all chains, all aspects, and all coverages; it is the broadest, most genuine, and most effective socialist democracy.” [3]3 Quotation from Xi Jinping’s speech at the Central Conference on Work Related to People’s Congresses, October 13, 2021. Socialist consultative democracy is an important form for practicing whole-process people’s democracy and a unique form of democracy in socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics. It complements and reinforces electoral democracy, jointly advancing the development of whole-process people’s democracy. Under China’s new type of party system, all parties and personages from all sectors can participate in consultations on multiple fronts, fully express opinions and suggestions, and reflect the interest demands of the groups they represent. By adhering to consultation before decisions are made and during the implementation of decisions, soliciting opinions through repeated consultation, and making decisions and implementing policies with rational prudence, the system enhances the scientific nature of decision-making and the effectiveness of policy implementation, avoiding social division and turmoil.

新型政党制度通过制度化、程序化、规范化的安排集中各种意见和建议、推动决策科学化民主化，有效避免了旧式政党制度囿于党派利益、阶级利益、区域和集团利益决策施政导致社会撕裂的弊端。中国新型政党制度创新了社会主义协商民主的实现形式，真实有效地促进了全过程人民民主的实现。习近平总书记指出：“全过程人民民主是全链条、全方位、全覆盖的民主，是最广泛、最真实、最管用的社会主义民主。”社会主义协商民主是实践全过程人民民主的重要形式，也是中国特色社会主义民主政治独有的民主形式，它与选举民主相互补充、相得益彰，共同推动全过程人民民主的发展。在中国新型政党制度下，各党派、各界别人士都可以参与多方面的协商，充分发表意见建议，反映各自所代表的利益需求，坚持协商于决策之前和决策实施之中，通过反复协商征求意见、理性审慎决策施策，增强了决策的科学性和施策的有效性，避免了社会的撕裂和动荡。

III. Strive to Enhance the Effectiveness of China’s New Type of Party System

三、着力提升中国新型政党制度效能

China’s new type of party system possesses historical inevitability, great creativity, immense superiority, and strong vitality. It 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 national governance, and is a basic political system conducive to national development, national rejuvenation, social progress, and the well-being of the people. Under the conditions of the New Era, it is necessary to continuously leverage the advantages of the new type of party system and enhance its effectiveness.

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的需要，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。新的时代条件下，要不断发挥新型政党制度优势，提升新型政党制度效能。

Uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Upholding the leadership of the CPC is a distinctive feature and important content of China’s new type of party system, and it is also the primary prerequisite and fundamental guarantee for the healthy development of the cause of multiparty cooperation. The CPC is the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics; the democratic parties and non-party personages consciously accept the leadership of the CPC and endorse the CPC’s leading and governing position. Only by upholding the Party’s leadership can the operation and development of the new type of party system be steadily advanced, the unique advantages and strong vitality of the new type of party system be truly highlighted, and the effectiveness of the new type of party system be effectively enhanced. On the path forward, it is essential to always uphold the Party’s leadership, guide personages from all walks of life to consciously accept and maintain the leadership of the CPC, and consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path, ensuring that China’s cause of multiparty cooperation becomes ever more solid and broad on the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

坚持中国共产党的领导。坚持中国共产党的领导，是中国新型政党制度的鲜明特征和重要内容，也是多党合作事业健康发展的首要前提和根本保证。中国共产党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的领导，拥护中国共产党的领导地位和执政地位。只有坚持党的领导，才能稳步推进新型政党制度的运行与发展，才能真正突显新型政党制度的独特优势和强大生命力，才能有效提高新型政党制度的效能。前进道路上，必须始终坚持党的领导，引导各方面人士自觉接受和维护中国共产党的领导，自觉在政治立场、政治方向、政治原则、政治道路上同以习近平同志为核心的党中央保持高度一致，确保我国多党合作事业在中国特色社会主义道路上越走越坚实、越走越宽广。

Give full play to the positive role of the democratic parties and non-party personages. The democratic parties and non-party personages have made important contributions to national independence, people’s liberation, and national prosperity and the well-being of the people. At present and in the future, it is also necessary to fully leverage the positive role of the democratic parties and non-party personages. The important role of the democratic parties and non-party personages in exercising democratic oversight over the CPC should be brought into play. Democratic oversight of the CPC by the democratic parties and non-party personages is an important way to leverage the advantages of China’s new type of party system, an inevitable requirement for modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity, and plays a unique and irreplaceable important role in the socialist oversight system with Chinese characteristics. The important role of the democratic parties and non-party personages in promoting the building of state power should be brought into play. The CPC adheres to equal treatment, democratic consultation, and sincere cooperation, supporting members of the democratic parties and non-party personages serving in people’s congresses, governments, and judicial organs at all levels to play their roles and jointly advance the building of state power. The democratic parties and non-party personages closely focus on the central work of the state, fully leverage their advantages in talent concentration, intellectual density, and broad connections, actively participate in political deliberation and offer suggestions, and play a positive role in promoting the development of various national undertakings.

发挥好民主党派和无党派人士的积极作用。各民主党派和无党派人士，为民族独立、人民解放和国家富强、人民幸福作出了重要贡献。当前及今后，还要充分发挥好民主党派和无党派人士的积极作用。要发挥好民主党派、无党派人士对中国共产党进行民主监督的重要作用。民主党派、无党派人士对中国共产党进行民主监督，是发挥中国新型政党制度优势的重要方式，是实现国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的必然要求，在中国特色社会主义监督体系中具有独特的、不可替代的重要作用。要发挥好各民主党派、无党派人士推动国家政权建设的重要作用。中国共产党坚持平等相待、民主协商、真诚合作，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发挥作用，共同推动国家政权建设。各民主党派、无党派人士紧紧围绕国家中心工作，充分发挥人才荟萃、智力密集、联系广泛等优势，积极参政议政、建言献策，对于推进国家各项事业发展具有积极作用。

Consolidate the common ideological and political foundation. The united cooperation between the Communist Party of China and the democratic parties and personages without party affiliation is built on a common ideological and political foundation. Today, our common ideological and political foundation is socialism with Chinese characteristics. The more the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics advances, the more it is necessary to unite the broadest possible forces. Practice shows that it is precisely because of a firm ideological and political consensus that the democratic parties and personages without party affiliation, in the face of a complex and volatile international situation, and in the face of any difficulties and risks or tests, can consciously share the same heart and mind with the CPC, share weal and woe, and actively devote themselves to the cause of socialist revolution, construction, and reform. On the road ahead, it is necessary to guide the various party groups and people from all ethnic groups and all walks of life in the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference to deeply study Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, study the history of the CPC, the history of the united front, and the history of the CPPCC, not forget the original aspiration and founding mission [5]5 The original aspiration and founding mission (初心使命) refers to the original goal of the CPC to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, as articulated by Xi Jinping., and enhance political identification, ideological identification, theoretical identification, and emotional identification, marching forward hand in hand under the banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

巩固共同思想政治基础。中国共产党同各民主党派和无党派人士团结合作，是建立在共同思想政治基础之上的。今天，我们的共同思想政治基础就是中国特色社会主义。中国特色社会主义事业越是向前推进，越需要凝聚最广泛的力量。实践表明，正是有了牢固的思想政治共识，各民主党派和无党派人士面对复杂多变的国际形势，面对任何困难和风险考验，都能自觉做到与中国共产党同心同德，甘苦与共，积极投身于社会主义革命、建设和改革事业。前进道路上，要引导人民政协各党派团体和各族各界人士深入学习习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想，学习中国共产党历史、统一战线历史、人民政协历史，不忘初心，增进政治认同、思想认同、理论认同、情感认同，在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想旗帜下携手前进。

The new type of party system in China is a party system that conforms to China’s national conditions and has Chinese characteristics. This system emerged, developed, and was perfected in the long-term practice of revolution, construction, and reform, and on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it is increasingly radiating even more vigorous vitality and dynamism.

中国新型政党制度是符合中国国情、具有中国特色的政党制度。这一制度在革命、建设、改革的长期实践中产生、发展和完善，并在全面建设社会主义现代化国家、实现中华民族伟大复兴的新征程中，日益焕发更加旺盛的生机和活力。

(Authors: Ji Chunfang, Associate Research Librarian at the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Li Zhenghua, Deputy Director and Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

（作者：中国社会科学院当代中国研究所副研究馆员；中国社会科学院当代中国研究所副所长、研究员）

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