The true meaning of the whole process of people's democracy was realized at the two sessions of the country

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 9th

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter

　　The breath of spring is surging in the National People's Congress, the hall of democracy in China.

　　People's democracy is the life of socialism, and it is the proper meaning of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.

The new deputies to the National People's Congress and members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference performed their duties with due diligence and participated in the deliberation of state affairs, showing a vivid picture of practicing people's democracy throughout the process.

　　Through the vivid stories at the two sessions of the country, what is touched is the pulse of the whole process of people's democracy, and what is felt is the true meaning of the whole process of people's democracy.

"People's democracy is the banner that the Communist Party of China has always held high"

　　On the morning of January 19, Nanjing, Jiangsu.

　　After a solemn vote, a list of 144 representatives to the 14th National People's Congress of Jiangsu Province was produced.

General Secretary Xi Jinping, the representative candidate nominated by the central government in Jiangsu, was elected unanimously.

Representative Wei Qiao, who attended the First Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress, was speaking.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren

　　On that day, Wei Qiao, chairman of the Yongxing Agricultural Machinery Mechanization Professional Cooperative in Zhenjiang New District, Zhenjiang City, was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress for the first time.

　　For the next month or so, every time he went to a place, Wei Qiao collected opinions from local farmers, agricultural technicians, and agricultural business entities. He also communicated with local agriculture-related colleges and universities many times, and constantly revised and improved his suggestions to be brought to the National Two Sessions. .

　　On the afternoon of March 5, in the East Hall of the Great Hall of the People.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Jiangsu delegation where he was, and discussed state affairs with the representatives.

Six representatives, including Wei Qiao, will serve the country to build a new development pattern, vigorously promote regional collaborative innovation, unswervingly climb to the peak of the manufacturing industry, be a good "new farmer" in the new era, educate talents for the party, and be a good China Speeches on issues such as the vanguard of modernization.

　　Wei Qiao met with General Secretary Xi Jinping face to face.

During the exchange, the general secretary talked about a document he had read about "cultivating a group of key bases of 'one county, one industry'".

　　"I frowned after reading it. It's not easy to set an indicator for this matter. Is it necessary for a county to develop by relying on only one industry? It needs to conduct in-depth research. You can't just wave a pen and allocate a sum of money. This place is dedicated to the development of chicken farming. , develop mushrooms, that place specializes in textiles, if that happens, it will definitely be ruined.”

　　Wei Qiao listened carefully, feeling that the words came from her heart.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly: "You need to open a lock with a key, and decide according to the specific situation, and you can't place an order."

　　Wei Qiao realized that General Secretary Xi Jinping has been listening to public opinion and contacting people's sentiments to find a "golden key" for governing the country.

　　Connect people's hearts, gather people's opinions, and gather people's wisdom.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that people's democracy is the banner that the Communist Party of China has always held high.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping had in-depth exchanges with the representatives and discussed the state affairs together, vividly interpreting the true meaning of the people's democracy in the whole process——

　　"Accelerating the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance is the only way to promote high-quality development." "Promoting rural revitalization requires a large number of talents and high-quality labor." "Basic education undertakes a very glorious and arduous historical task." General Secretary Xi Jinping attended Jiangsu The delegation deliberated on a profound interpretation of high-quality development, and made a series of important expositions from an overall and strategic perspective.

　　On the new journey, how to correctly view the current domestic and international situation?

How to achieve healthy and high-quality development of the private economy?

At the CPPCC National Construction Association and the Federation of Industry and Commerce, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important guidelines.

Member Xie Ru, who attended the First Session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee, was speaking.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi

　　Member Xie Ru, chairman of the Jiangxi Federation of Industry and Commerce, especially cherishes the rare opportunity, "I want to tell the general secretary the story of the struggle of private enterprises with the support of national policies."

　　Ten thousand enterprises prospering ten thousand villages is the story she wants to tell.

Before the National Two Sessions, Xie Ru "dissected the sparrow" with a question - 320 members of 138 companies from the Shuibei Chamber of Commerce in Xinyu City organized a group to "deliver" the skills and channels for getting rich to local farmers.

What other shortcomings?

How to go from "help" to "xing"?

　　Facing the concerned eyes of the General Secretary, she came up one by one: the end of rural logistics needs to be opened up, rural financial services must be innovated, and rural entrepreneurial entities must be cultivated...

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping praised this action as a "feat", and also urged some top-level design and classified guidance on what to do and how to do it in the countryside: "When capital goes to the countryside, the investment must be invested in the right place" "Some money is not real. Applying it to farmers" "This time we are researching institutional reforms, and some measures are targeted"...

　　In the hall of democracy where the communist state is established, the organic unity of the party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law are upheld, and the sunshine of democracy shines on the land of China.

"The whole process of people's democracy in our country not only has a complete system and procedures, but also has a complete participatory practice"

　　On the morning of March 7, delegations from the first session of the 14th National People's Congress held a representative group meeting to review the draft amendment to the Legislative Law.

　　As the "law governing the law," the Legislative Law was amended again after eight years. The draft amendment proposes that "legislation should uphold and develop people's democracy throughout the process, respect and protect human rights, and safeguard and promote social fairness and justice."

　　"The broadest and deepest foundation of the comprehensive rule of law is the people. Incorporating 'whole-process people's democracy' into the legislative law will not only help to better realize fairness and justice, but also enrich the practice of the people being the masters of the country." Harbin Institute of Technology Principal Han Jiecai said on behalf of the school.

　　The rule of law escorts the people's democracy, and the proper meaning of the "whole process" is better demonstrated.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the whole process of people's democracy in our country not only has a complete system and procedures, but also has a complete participatory practice.

　　On February 17, at the Gubei Civic Center in Hongqiao Street, Shanghai, National People's Congress representative Sheng Hong (first from left) and representatives of residential areas discussed issues related to community service functions.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Ying

　　After receiving the revised draft of the Legislative Law, Sheng Hong, the first secretary of the Party General Branch of the Ronghua Residential Area, Hongqiao Street, Changning District, Shanghai, and the director of the Gubei Civic Center, marked the relevant items under the "Grassroots Legislative Contact Point".

　　"The entry of the 'Grassroots Legislative Contact Point' into the law will further promote the improvement of the work level of the contact point, which is very kind to me." Sheng Hong said.

　　She will never forget that on November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping first proposed "whole-process democracy" when he visited the Gubei Civic Center in Hongqiao Street.

　　In November 2022, the Legislative Opinion Consultation Meeting for the Draft Amendment of the Legislative Law was held at the Gubei Civic Center, which aroused heated discussions. The last time the Legislative Law was revised, people’s wisdom was also drawn from Hongqiao Street.

　　Sheng Hong said that the integration of people's democracy into all aspects of community governance in the whole process must promote the mutual promotion of opinion consultation and democratic consultation, forming a good democratic and legal atmosphere in which "everything is easy to discuss, and everyone's affairs are discussed by everyone".

　　The whole process of people's democracy is a full-chain, all-round, and full-coverage democracy.

　　In 2013, Sun Xianzhong, a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was elected as a representative of the National People's Congress, and he put forward the first bill on the compilation of the civil code. Later, with the first legal compilation named after the "code" in New China, he proposed more than 70 bills and Numerous proposals, legislative reports.

　　"My personal experience is just a small fragment and aspect of this great era, reflecting the glory that our country has gone through." Representative Sun Xianzhong said.

　　The draft amendment to the Legislative Law adds a provision: "The State Supervisory Commission formulates supervisory regulations in accordance with the Constitution and laws and the decisions of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and reports them to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for the record."

　　On the morning of March 8, Sun Xianzhong, who was participating in the review of the Jiangxi delegation, received a call from a staff member who wanted to know the senior legal expert's opinion on the draft amendment to the Legislative Law and asked for theoretical support.

　　"This revision is to supplement relevant content in order to adapt to the reform of the supervision system." Sun Xianzhong said that he hopes to attach great importance to the scientific and systematic issues of legislation.

　　Member He Dan from the China Population and Development Research Center drafted a survey report on my country's mid-to-long-term population development trend, improvement of childbearing support and supporting policies, and some suggestions were adopted by the competent authorities.

　　"Proposal processing, bi-weekly consultation meetings, and information briefing..." He Dan said that the interaction between CPPCC members and ministries and commissions has become more and more abundant.

　　From legislation to decision-making, the voices of the people can be heard in every link, the situation from the grassroots can be understood, and the new demands and expectations of the people can be actively responded to.

　　The story of democracy at the two sessions of the country this year has fully confirmed that the complete institutional procedures and complete participatory practices have made people's democracy in the whole process from a value concept to an institutional form, governance mechanism and people's way of life rooted in the land of China.

"Without democracy, there will be no socialism, there will be no socialist modernization, and there will be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation"

　　At noon on March 8, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference invited special sector members to reside.

　　On March 8, Chen Hongsheng (second from left), the second-level inspector of the Achievement Transformation and Regional Innovation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and his two colleagues had a video connection with Long Keping, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Dai Tianfang

　　The cell phone rings—Professor Long Keping of the School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, has received an invitation from the Ministry of Science and Technology for a "video connection".

　　It turned out that during the CPPCC group discussion on the 6th, Long Keping combined his own work and put forward three suggestions on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: strengthening platform construction, deep integration of universities and enterprises to promote the cultivation of outstanding engineers, and strengthening the cultivation of senior professional and intermediate professional technical personnel.

　　After dinner on the 7th, a strange call came from Long Keping's mobile phone.

The other end of the phone said: "I am the head of the Achievement Transformation and Regional Innovation Department of the Ministry of Science and Technology. We have seen your three suggestions..."

　　"I didn't expect a response so soon." Long Keping, a newly appointed member of the CPPCC National Committee, was quite surprised. They had a brief exchange on the phone and agreed to have a video connection the next day.

　　Although through the screen, Long Keping was very excited to see the comrades from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and his suggestions were more specific: "There must be professional institutions, special systems, and special financial support" "The government should play a leading role" "Jiangsu, Guangdong, etc. The land has done a good job and can be used as a reference for promotion"...

　　"This is the problem we need to solve in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the next step." Comrades from the Ministry of Science and Technology on the other side of the screen recorded, answered, and asked questions from time to time.

　　Members made suggestions and ministries responded. Long Keping was very satisfied with the one-hour communication.

　　Promote consensus with democracy and gather strength with consensus.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that without democracy there would be no socialism, there would be no socialist modernization, and there would be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　On March 2, the just-launched "2023·Representatives/Committees Message on Government Work" mini-program received a message.

　　Zhang Yi, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from the social science community, put forward specific suggestions on reducing logistics costs and optimizing the business environment.

A day later, his opinion was forwarded to the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council for study and handling.

　　This year's Two Sessions, the State Office dispatched staff to form a special class of 100 people. 75 people went to the scene to observe the deliberation and discussion of the representatives and committee members, and 25 people continued to sort out the observation records, excerpt briefings and small program messages in the rear, and screened universal and typical opinions and suggestions in a timely manner. Respond to relevant departments.

　　On February 24, at Xiejiawan School in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, Liu Xiya, deputy to the National People's Congress, had a discussion with some parent representatives to collect everyone's opinions and suggestions on the implementation of the "double reduction" policy.

Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Wei

　　"Efficient feedback and careful handling of suggestions, motions, and proposals put forward by representatives and committee members truly embodies the 'broadest, most authentic, and most effective' of people's democracy in the whole process." Liu Xiya, Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Chongqing Xiejiawan Education Group said the representative.

　　The National Two Sessions are a stage for unblocking public opinion and building consensus: on the representative committee channel, 12 representatives and 16 committee members have "face-to-face" with reporters under the spotlight, telling their experience in performing their duties, and putting forward opinions and suggestions, from high-quality development to Promote rural revitalization, from scientific and technological innovation breakthroughs to the construction of a beautiful China...

　　The National Two Sessions are a window to face concerns and accept supervision: on the "minister channel", 6 ministers have answered more than a dozen questions, from ensuring "safety on the tip of the tongue" to ensuring the stable and healthy development of the real estate market...

　　This year's "Representative Channel", "Committee Channel" and "Minister Channel", reporters went to the scene to interview, and they were close to the interviewees, which made Zheng Quanzhi, a reporter from Thailand's "Manager Daily", very excited.

　　"Whether it is screen-to-screen or face-to-face, what changes is the form, but what remains unchanged is China's open and confident image." Zheng Quanzhi said.

　　"Thousands of people are of the same mind, and the power of a thousand people will be gained; if thousands of people are not of the same mind, then no one will be useful."

　　Li Mao, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of China Pingmei Shenma Group, said that the story of democracy at the two sessions is about the process of scientific and democratic decision-making, and the process of gathering the wisdom and strength of hundreds of millions of people to promote Chinese-style modernization.

　　This year is the first year to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The practice of a more extensive, fuller, and more complete whole-process people's democracy will surely unite hundreds of millions of people on the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. go ahead.

(Reporters Xiong Zhengyan, Qu Ting, Ren Qinqin, Ye Qian, Xiong Feng, Luo Sha, Wu Yu, Zheng Mingda)

　　Poster design: Jiang Zihan, Sun Yao