w88 casino News Network (Contributed by the National Institute of Opening up)On December 1, the Chinese Embassy in Greece held a symposium on the promotion of people's democracy in the whole process. Ambassador Xiao Junzheng had in-depth exchanges with former Greek envoys abroad and more than 10 representatives from institutions and media such as the University of Athens, the European and Foreign Policy Foundation, the Daily, the Greece-China Friendship Association, and the "One Belt and One Road" Association on the development of China's people's democracy in the whole process and the world's democratic process. Haier, a researcher at the National Institute for Opening up of w88 casino (Pella Karpathiotaki）Ms. was invited to participate in the symposium and express her views.
Ambassador Xiao Junzheng pointed out that not long ago, the Communist Party of China held the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, which comprehensively summarized the major achievements and historical experience of the Communist Party of China over a century of struggle, and put forward a major proposition for the construction of China's democratic politics - the development of people's democracy throughout the process. The original meaning of democracy is that the people are the masters of the country. The key to whether a country is democratic or not is whether the people are truly the masters of the country. China adheres to the people's position, insists on proceeding from its own national conditions, draws on the useful experience of democratic systems in other countries around the world, and continuously improves and develops it in practice. It has formed a full-process people's democratic system that integrates process democracy and outcome democracy, procedural democracy and substantive democracy, direct democracy and indirect democracy, people's democracy and the will of the country. It effectively guarantees that all people manage state affairs and social affairs in accordance with the law through various channels and forms.
Researcher Haier pointed out based on his experience of living and working in China that an important characteristic of the Chinese Communist Party is its ability to adapt to the changing environment, overcome challenges, and determine and achieve long-term goals. The effective practice of preventing and controlling the new coronavirus epidemic has proved this. Haier believes that in China, democracy is not a symbol or a "tool" to achieve political goals, but represents the voice of the people and is used to solve the problems that the people think about. At the same time, he conducted in-depth sharing and discussion based on Western democratic theory and practice.
The guests attending the meeting believed that the diversity of civilizations and the particularities of each country have created rich and colorful political systems and political civilizations in the world. Democracy is a common value for all mankind. It is not uniform and unchangeable. Different countries have the right to independently choose political systems and development paths that suit their own national conditions. Over the past few decades, China has focused on learning from other countries' models rather than simply copying other countries' models. It has implemented a full-process people's democracy with its own characteristics, firmly followed a development path that is in line with China's history, culture and national conditions, achieved two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and made outstanding achievements in eradicating absolute poverty and fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. Today's Chinese people have a high degree of happiness, which fully demonstrates that China's democratic political system is effective and successful.
