Building of Participating Parties (Democratic Parties)

The system of multi-Party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China is a socialist political Party system with Chinese characteristics and a basic political system in our country. The democratic parties in mainland China are required to continuously improve their capacity to grasp politics, participate in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, organize and lead, and cooperate and work together. On January 22, 2014, Xi Jinping proposed at the Chinese New Year symposium for non-Party personages held by the CPC Central Committee that, we shall “accurately grasp the basic requirements for building socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics, inherit the fine traditions, grasp the requirements of the times, and continuously improve the capacity to grasp politics, participate in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, organize and lead, and cooperate and work together, and strive to raise the building of socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics to a new level”. This important argument combines socialism with Chinese characteristics with the concept of participatory parties, further clarifies the nature and political status of the participatory parties of the democratic parties, and integrates the social foundation, political program, and functions of the democratic parties, injecting new connotations into the theory and practice of multi-Party cooperation, and pointing out the direction and requirements for the building of socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics. The building of socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics, takes enhancing political consensus as the fundamental prerequisite, that is, building socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics in the right direction and on the correct road with upholding and developing the socialism with Chinese characteristics as the master switch of thought and action, as well as the focus point, acting point and foothold of “building the Party for the public and participating in politics for the people”, to serve the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and focus on upholding and developing the socialism with Chinese characteristics and strengthening self-construction under the guidance of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and within the framework of the political system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The building of socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics takes serving reforms and development as the fundamental task. The democratic parties are an important force in advancing reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. All democratic parties must closely focus on the goals and tasks clearly set forth by the 18th CPC National Congress, give full play to their own advantages, mobilize all positive factors to the greatest extent, and gather all positive strengths, to make new contributions to building a well-off society in an all-round way, realizing socialist modernization, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The building of socialist participatory parties with Chinese characteristics, takes strengthening self-construction as the basis, that is, continuously improving the scientific level of self-construction, and adhering to keeping in line with the Communist Party of China in terms of ideology, goals and actions, with ideological construction as the core, organizational construction as the foundation, system construction as the guarantee, and work style construction as the key. Especially through the capacity building of the backbone team for participation in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, continuously improving the overall strength and various capabilities for participating in the deliberation and administration of state affairs. As the participatory parties, the democratic parties must continuously improve their capacity to grasp politics, participate in the deliberation and administration of state affairs, organize and lead, and cooperate and work together, and strive to build participatory parties dedicated to socialism with Chinese characteristics that meet the development requirements of the new era, so as to better perform the functions of participating in the deliberation and administration of state affairs and democratic supervision.