我國是工人階級領導的、以工農聯盟為基礎的人民民主專政的社會主義國家，國家一切權力屬于人民。我國社會主義民主是維護人民根本利益的最廣泛、最真實、最管用的民主。發展社會主義民主政治就是要體現人民意志、保障人民權益、激發人民創造活力，用制度體系保證人民當家作主。
China is a socialist country of people's democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class based on an alliance of workers and farmers; it is a country where all power of the state belongs to the people. China's socialist democracy is the broadest, most genuine, and most effective democracy to safeguard the fundamental interests of the people. The very purpose of developing socialist democracy is to give full expression to the will of the people, protect their rights and interests, spark their creativity, and provide systemic and institutional guarantees to ensure the people run the country.
中國特色社會主義政治發展道路，是近代以來中國人民長期奮斗歷史邏輯、理論邏輯、實踐邏輯的必然結果，是堅持黨的本質屬性、踐行黨的根本宗旨的必然要求。世界上沒有完全相同的政治制度模式，政治制度不能脫離特定社會政治條件和歷史文化傳統來抽象評判，不能定于一尊，不能生搬硬套外國政治制度模式。要長期堅持、不斷發展我國社會主義民主政治，積極穩妥推進政治體制改革，推進社會主義民主政治制度化、規范化、法治化、程序化，保證人民依法通過各種途徑和形式管理國家事務，管理經濟文化事業，管理社會事務，鞏固和發展生動活潑、安定團結的政治局面。
The path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics is the logical outcome of the evolution of history, theory, and practice as the Chinese people have long engaged in struggles since the advent of modern times. It is a requisite for maintaining the very nature of the Party and fulfilling its fundamental purpose. No two political systems are entirely the same, and a political system cannot be judged in abstraction without regard for its social and political context, its history, and its cultural traditions. No one political system should be regarded as the only choice; and we should not just mechanically copy the political systems of other countries. We must uphold long term and steadily strengthen China's socialist democracy, make active and prudent efforts to advance the reform of the political system, and improve the institutions, standards, and procedures of socialist democracy. We should ensure that people participate, in accordance with law and in various ways and forms, in the management of state, economic, cultural, and social affairs, and consolidate and enhance political stability, unity, and vitality.
（一）堅持黨的領導、人民當家作主、依法治國有機統一。黨的領導是人民當家作主和依法治國的根本保證，人民當家作主是社會主義民主政治的本質特征，依法治國是黨領導人民治理國家的基本方式，三者統一于我國社會主義民主政治偉大實踐。在我國政治生活中，黨是居于領導地位的，加強黨的集中統一領導，支持人大、政府、政協和法院、檢察院依法依章程履行職能、開展工作、發揮作用，這兩個方面是統一的。要改進黨的領導方式和執政方式，保證黨領導人民有效治理國家；擴大人民有序政治參與，保證人民依法實行民主選舉、民主協商、民主決策、民主管理、民主監督；維護國家法制統一、尊嚴、權威，加強人權法治保障，保證人民依法享有廣泛權利和自由。鞏固基層政權，完善基層民主制度，保障人民知情權、參與權、表達權、監督權。健全依法決策機制，構建決策科學、執行堅決、監督有力的權力運行機制。各級領導干部要增強民主意識，發揚民主作風，接受人民監督，當好人民公仆。
1. Upholding the unity of Party leadership, the people running the country, and law-based governance
Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for ensuring that the people run the country and governance in China is law-based; that the people run the country is an essential feature of socialist democracy; and law-based governance is the basic way for the Party to lead the people in governing the country. These three elements are integral components of socialist democracy. In China's political life, our Party exercises leadership. Strengthening the centralized, unified leadership of the Party on the one hand and, on the other, supporting the people's congresses, governments, committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), courts, and procuratorates in performing their functions and playing their roles in accordance with the law and their charters, form a unified pair. We will improve the way the Party exercises leadership and governance to ensure that it leads the people in effectively governing the country. We will expand the people's orderly political participation to see that in accordance with law they engage in democratic elections, consultations, decision-making, management, and oversight. We should uphold the unity, sanctity, and authority of China's legal system, and strengthen legal protection for human rights to ensure that the people enjoy extensive rights and freedoms as prescribed by law. We should both consolidate government and improve the institutions of democracy at the primary level to ensure the people’s rights to be informed, to participate, to be heard, and to oversee. We will improve mechanisms for law-based decision-making, and put in place mechanisms for the exercise of power that ensure sound decision-making, resolute execution, and effective oversight. Officials at all levels must deepen their understanding of democracy, be democratic in their conduct, willingly accept public oversight, and perform as they should in their role as public servants.
（二）加強人民當家作主制度保障。人民代表大會制度是堅持黨的領導、人民當家作主、依法治國有機統一的根本政治制度安排，必須長期堅持、不斷完善。要支持和保證人民通過人民代表大會行使國家權力。發揮人大及其常委會在立法工作中的主導作用，健全人大組織制度和工作制度，支持和保證人大依法行使立法權、監督權、決定權、任免權，更好發揮人大代表作用，使各級人大及其常委會成為全面擔負起憲法法律賦予的各項職責的工作機關，成為同人民群眾保持密切聯系的代表機關。完善人大專門委員會設置，優化人大常委會和專門委員會組成人員結構。
2. Strengthening institutional guarantees to ensure the people run the country
We must uphold long term and steadily improve the system of people's congresses, a political system fundamental to the Party's leadership, the people's running of the country, and law-based governance. We should support and ensure the people’s exercise of state power through people’s congresses. We should see to it that people's congresses and their standing committees play the leading role in lawmaking, and improve the organizational and working systems of people's congresses to support and ensure the exercise of their statutory powers of enacting laws, conducting oversight, making decisions, and appointing and removing officials. We should give better play to the role of deputies to people’s congresses, and enable people’s congresses at all levels and their standing committees to fully perform their functions as stipulated in the Constitution and the law, and to truly represent the people and maintain close ties with them. We should improve the setup of special committees of people's congresses and the composition of their standing committees and special committees.
（三）發揮社會主義協商民主重要作用。有事好商量，眾人的事情由眾人商量，是人民民主的真諦。協商民主是實現黨的領導的重要方式，是我國社會主義民主政治的特有形式和獨特優勢。要推動協商民主廣泛、多層、制度化發展，統籌推進政黨協商、人大協商、政府協商、政協協商、人民團體協商、基層協商以及社會組織協商。加強協商民主制度建設，形成完整的制度程序和參與實踐，保證人民在日常政治生活中有廣泛持續深入參與的權利。
3. Giving play to the important role of socialist consultative democracy
The essence of the people’s democracy is that the people get to discuss their own affairs. Consultative democracy is an important way of effecting Party leadership and a model and strength unique to China's socialist democracy. We will advance extensive, multilevel, and institutionalized development of consultative democracy, and adopt a coordinated approach to promoting consultations carried out by political parties, people's congresses, government departments, CPPCC committees, people's organizations, communities, and social organizations. We will strengthen the institutions of consultative democracy and develop complete procedures and practices to enable the people's broad, continuous, and intensive participation in day-to-day political activities.
人民政協是具有中國特色的制度安排，是社會主義協商民主的重要渠道和專門協商機構。人民政協工作要聚焦黨和國家中心任務，圍繞團結和民主兩大主題，把協商民主貫穿政治協商、民主監督、參政議政全過程，完善協商議政內容和形式，著力增進共識、促進團結。加強人民政協民主監督，重點監督黨和國家重大方針政策和重要決策部署的貫徹落實。增強人民政協界別的代表性，加強委員隊伍建設。
The CPPCC, as a distinctively Chinese political institution, is a major channel for socialist consultative democracy, and its committees are specialist consultative bodies. The CPPCC committees should focus on the Party and the country's key tasks. With the themes of unity and democracy in mind, they should exercise consultative democracy throughout the whole process of political consultation, democratic oversight, and participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs; and they should improve the content and forms of consultation and deliberation to build consensus and promote unity. They should strengthen democratic oversight, focusing on the implementation of the major principles, policies, decisions, and plans of the Party and the state. They should better represent the different social sectors and strengthen the competence of their members.
（四）深化依法治國實踐。全面依法治國是國家治理的一場深刻革命，必須堅持厲行法治，推進科學立法、嚴格執法、公正司法、全民守法。成立中央全面依法治國領導小組，加強對法治中國建設的統一領導。加強憲法實施和監督，推進合憲性審查工作，維護憲法權威。推進科學立法、民主立法、依法立法，以良法促進發展、保障善治。建設法治政府，推進依法行政，嚴格規范公正文明執法。深化司法體制綜合配套改革，全面落實司法責任制，努力讓人民群眾在每一個司法案件中感受到公平正義。加大全民普法力度，建設社會主義法治文化，樹立憲法法律至上、法律面前人人平等的法治理念。各級黨組織和全體黨員要帶頭尊法學法守法用法，任何組織和個人都不得有超越憲法法律的特權，絕不允許以言代法、以權壓法、逐利違法、徇私枉法。
4. Advancing law-based governance
Advancing law-based governance in all fields is a profound revolution in China's governance. We must promote the rule of law and work to ensure sound lawmaking, strict law enforcement, impartial administration of justice, and the observance of law by everyone. A central leading group for advancing law-based governance in all areas will be set up to exercise unified leadership over the initiative to build rule of law in China. We will strengthen oversight to ensure compliance with the Constitution, advance constitutionality review, and safeguard the authority of the Constitution. We will carry out lawmaking in a well-conceived and democratic way and in accordance with law, so that good laws are made to promote development and ensure good governance. We will build a rule of law government, promote law-based government administration, and see that law is enforced in a strict, procedure-based, impartial, and non-abusive way. We will carry out comprehensive and integrated reform of the judicial system and enforce judicial accountability in all respects, so that the people can see in every judicial case that justice is served. We will redouble efforts to raise public awareness of the law, develop a socialist culture of rule of law, and increase public awareness of the principle underlying rule of law that the Constitution and the law are above everything else and that everyone is equal before the law. Every Party organization and every Party member must take the lead in respecting, learning about, observing, and applying the law. No organization or individual has the power to overstep the Constitution or the law; and no one in a position of power is allowed in any way to override the law with his own orders, place his authority above the law, violate the law for personal gain, or abuse the law.
（五）深化機構和行政體制改革。統籌考慮各類機構設置，科學配置黨政部門及內設機構權力、明確職責。統籌使用各類編制資源，形成科學合理的管理體制，完善國家機構組織法。轉變政府職能，深化簡政放權，創新監管方式，增強政府公信力和執行力，建設人民滿意的服務型政府。賦予省級及以下政府更多自主權。在省市縣對職能相近的黨政機關探索合并設立或合署辦公。深化事業單位改革，強化公益屬性，推進政事分開、事企分開、管辦分離。
5. Deepening reform of Party and government institutions and the system of government administration
We will adopt a comprehensive approach to the setup of Party and government institutions, and ensure that powers are designated properly and functions and duties are defined clearly both for the institutions themselves and their internal bodies. We will use various types of staffing resources in a coordinated way, develop a sound system of administration, and improve the organic law for state institutions. The government needs to transform its functions, further streamline administration and delegate powers, develop new ways of regulation and supervision, and strengthen its credibility and administrative capacity, building itself into a service-oriented government able to satisfy the needs of the people. More decision making power should be given to governments at and below the provincial level, and ways should be explored to merge Party and government bodies with similar functions at the provincial, prefectural, and county levels or for them to work together as one office while keeping separate identities. We will deepen the reform of public institutions to see that they focus on serving public interests, relieve them of government functions, keep them away from business activities, and let them run their own day-to-day operations while maintaining supervision over them.
（六）鞏固和發展愛國統一戰線。統一戰線是黨的事業取得勝利的重要法寶，必須長期堅持。要高舉愛國主義、社會主義旗幟，牢牢把握大團結大聯合的主題，堅持一致性和多樣性統一，找到最大公約數，畫出最大同心圓。堅持長期共存、互相監督、肝膽相照、榮辱與共，支持民主黨派按照中國特色社會主義參政黨要求更好履行職能。深化民族團結進步教育，鑄牢中華民族共同體意識，加強各民族交往交流交融，促進各民族像石榴籽一樣緊緊抱在一起，共同團結奮斗、共同繁榮發展。全面貫徹黨的宗教工作基本方針，堅持我國宗教的中國化方向，積極引導宗教與社會主義社會相適應。加強黨外知識分子工作，做好新的社會階層人士工作，發揮他們在中國特色社會主義事業中的重要作用。構建親清新型政商關系，促進非公有制經濟健康發展和非公有制經濟人士健康成長。廣泛團結聯系海外僑胞和歸僑僑眷，共同致力于中華民族偉大復興。
6. Consolidating and developing the patriotic united front
The united front is an important way to ensure the success of the Party's cause, and we must maintain commitment to it long term. We must uphold the banner of patriotism and socialism, strive to achieve great unity and solidarity, balance commonality and diversity, and expand common ground and the convergence of interests. In handling its relationships with other Chinese political parties, the Communist Party of China is guided by the principles of long-term coexistence, mutual oversight, sincerity, and sharing the rough times and the smooth, and it supports these parties in performing their duties in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese socialist system for their participation in governance. We will heighten public awareness of ethnic unity and progress, and create a strong sense of community for the Chinese nation. We will encourage more exchanges and interactions among different ethnic groups, helping them remain closely united like the seeds of a pomegranate that stick together, and work jointly for common prosperity and development. We will fully implement the Party's basic policy on religious affairs, uphold the principle that religions in China must be Chinese in orientation and provide active guidance to religions so that they can adapt themselves to socialist society. We will encourage intellectuals who are not Party members and people belonging to new social groups to play the important roles they have in building socialism with Chinese characteristics. We should form a new type of cordial and clean relationship between government and business, promote healthy growth of the non-public sector of the economy, and encourage those working in this sector to achieve success. We will maintain extensive contacts with overseas Chinese nationals, returned Chinese and their relatives and unite them so that they can join our endeavors to revitalize the Chinese nation.
同志們！中國特色社會主義政治制度是中國共產黨和中國人民的偉大創造。我們完全有信心、有能力把我國社會主義民主政治的優勢和特點充分發揮出來，為人類政治文明進步作出充滿中國智慧的貢獻！
Comrades,
The political system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great creation of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people. We have every confidence that we can give full play to the strengths and distinctive features of China's socialist democracy, and make China's contribution to the political advancement of mankind.
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