On November 5, Beijing held a vote for the election of deputies to the people's congresses at the district and township levels. In the morning, General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the election of district people's congress deputies at the Huairentang Polling Station in the Zhongnanhai Constituency of Xicheng District. Xinhua News Agency reporter fixed this moment with the lens --
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Inside the polling station, the five-star red flag hanging is bright and dazzling, and the red ballot box inlaid with the national emblem is placed in the center. The general secretary dressed in formal clothes, holding the ballot with both hands, solemnly cast a vote in front of the ballot box.
Solemn moments, divine votes. General Secretary Xi Jinping has conscientiously exercised citizens' right to vote, which fully reflects the great importance attached to grass-roots democratic election work and the support and maintenance of the people's congress system.
In a large country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, the implementation of the people's congress system, the people through universal elections, the people elect their own deputies, form people's congresses at all levels, and exercise state power on behalf of the people.
From state leaders to ordinary people, more than 1 billion voters across the country have one person and one vote, with the same vote and the same power, and directly elect deputies to the people's congresses at the county and township levels, accounting for more than 90 percent of the total number of people's congress deputies at the five levels in Our country, and the extensiveness, importance, and authenticity of the elections have been fully demonstrated.
Develop socialist democratic politics and support and ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs. The general secretary has always had profound thinking and exposition on this.
He stressed many times that "the leadership of the Communist Party of China is to support and ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs, and pointed out that "the development of socialist democratic politics is to embody the will of the people, protect the rights and interests of the people, stimulate the people's creative vitality, and use the system to ensure that the people are the masters of their own affairs."
The country is the people, and the people are the country. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has deepened its understanding of the law of democratic political development and put forward the major concept of people's democracy in the whole process.
When participating in the election and voting of the district people's congress deputies, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to integrate all aspects of democratic election, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision, continuously develop people's democracy in the whole process, and better ensure that the people are masters of their own affairs.
In November 2019, when the general secretary inspected Shanghai, he proposed that "people's democracy is a kind of democracy in the whole process". In this year's important speech on July 1, the general secretary once again emphasized "practicing the people-centered development ideology and developing people's democracy in the whole process".
The proposal of the major concept of people's democracy in the whole process provides guidance and follow-up for the development of socialist democratic politics and the construction of socialist political civilization in the new era, and leads people's democracy to a higher realm of "full chain, all-round and full coverage" and "the most extensive, the most authentic and the most effective".
Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the Work Conference of the Central People's Congress and delivered an important speech, made major judgments, profoundly answered a series of major theoretical and practical issues in the development of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics in the new era, and put forward requirements for giving full play to the role of the people's congress system as an important institutional carrier for realizing people's democracy in the whole process of our country.
If the system is stable, the country is stable, and if the system is strong, the country is strong.
As the general secretary emphasized, "we must unswervingly adhere to and advance with the times to improve the people's congress system" and "ensure that the party and the state can hear the voices of the people in all aspects of decision-making, implementation, supervision and implementation."
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