A People's Democratic Society with Deep Integration into Social Life | Modernization | Life
Analysis of Reason and Doctrine
Author: Zhang Liwei
The whole process of people's democracy is the political support for Chinese path to modernization, which embodies the institutional advantages and governance effectiveness of socialist democracy. The superiority of people's democracy throughout the entire process is not only reflected in its value implications, but also in the vivid practice of real life. Democracy is not a decoration or a decoration, but a solution to the problems that the people need to solve. Solving the problems that the people need to solve is the basic method of building Chinese style democracy and the characteristic of Chinese style democracy. Only by closely linking democracy with real life can the meaning of democracy be activated, and the people can feel the true existence of democracy, truly experience democracy, trust democracy, and participate in democracy. The full process of people's democracy deeply integrated with social life has promoted the common development of people and society, and constructed a new form of human political civilization.
We have established democratic principles guided by solving basic problems in social life. Democracy is not only a decision-making mechanism in political life, but also a method for solving problems in social life. Democracy that cannot solve the problems of the people is formalistic democracy, democracy with fading values, and democracy without governance effectiveness.Democracy is dynamic and endowed by people through genuine participation. Therefore, democracy is not only an institutional arrangement, but also a way of life and practical form for every real individual. The concept of "people" in democracy represents that democracy is a human issue. Democracy without the people is a hypocritical democracy, and the comprehensive development of people needs to be achieved through democratic practice. The prerequisite for achieving unity between democracy and human beings is to embed democracy into human social life. Only by deeply integrating democracy with social life can the vitality of democracy be activated and revitalized. On the one hand, social life is the basic space for the survival and development of the people, and various human problems are more focused on the social field. Therefore, democracy that integrates into social life not only gives the people the opportunity to solve problems on their own, but also provides a direct channel for the people to participate in democracy. A democracy that deeply integrates with social life is beneficial for people to directly perceive democracy and experience its true efficacy. On the other hand, social life is closely related to people's livelihood. Solving the basic problems of social life is a direct response to people's livelihood, an important means to ensure and improve people's livelihood, and also a manifestation of the CPC's mass line. The operation of democracy in social life ensures the true aggregation of people's livelihood needs, realizes the scientific formulation of people's livelihood decisions, and ensures the effective implementation of people's livelihood policies. The construction of democracy in social life has shaped the path of promoting people's livelihoods through democracy, meeting their livelihood needs in the process of solving social life problems.
The governance goal of creating a community of social governance has been achieved. Governance is the fundamental goal of democracy, and the entire process of people's democracy has distinct characteristics of governance democracy. Democratic integration into social life means building a community of social governance and achieving good governance at the social level. Grassroots social governance requires everyone to take responsibility and fulfill their responsibilities in order to achieve the governance goals that everyone enjoys. The urgent task of building a community of social governance is to unite and mobilize the people, and jointly contribute to social progress. Building democracy in social life is to broaden channels for social participation and stimulate people's awareness of participation, so that the people can effectively assume the responsibility of participating in public affairs, unite people in direct democratic participation, repair and adjust social relationships, and form a harmonious situation where the people share the fruits of development. Democracy is the collective action of everyone to jointly solve problems through genuine participation, and the goal of democracy is to move towards unity in decision-making rather than creating opposition. The grand blueprint of Chinese path to modernization has shaped a common vision for the people. The basic vision of the people in social life is to seek a better life. The shared vision of yearning for a better life enables each individual to come together, solve problems together in specific mechanisms and institutional designs, and achieve governance goals of uniting people's hearts and repairing social relationships. Democracy is an important mechanism for cultivating interpersonal trust, and individuals in democratic procedures generate trust, achieving mutual benefit and sharing in a win-win outcome. The democratic operation in social life can shape reciprocal social networks while building connections between people. Reciprocal social networks can also provide a stable social foundation for the further healthy operation of democracy. This kind of interaction enables the social governance community to exist both in form and in reality. The broad participation of the people has expanded the breadth of social governance, improved the accuracy of social governance in the proper resolution of basic problems in social life, and raised the temperature of social governance in the repair and creation of social relationships.
Innovated democratic methods for grassroots consultative governance. Consultative democracy is not only a unique, unique, and unique form of democracy in Chinese socialist democracy, but also an important manifestation of democracy moving towards daily life. Consultative democracy is not an imported product from the West. The Chinese nation has a profound tradition of consultation, and "consultation" is deeply embedded in China's political and social life. Chinese people have always attached great importance to negotiation since ancient times, and "discussing things easily" is a common mode of communication among Chinese people. In the inheritance of history and the reality of life, the practice of negotiated governance that operates in social life not only conforms to human communication patterns, but also benefits the improvement of governance efficiency through negotiation. From the perspective of the relationship between scale and democracy, the scene and scale of social life are more suitable for orderly development of consultative democracy. Grassroots consultation is an organic component of socialist consultative democracy, and consultative democracy can better highlight its efficiency and effectiveness in small-scale organizations. The problems in social life exist at the grassroots level and often relate to different small-scale groups. Injecting consultative democracy into small-scale groups can consolidate consensus through rational and prudent communication, and achieve the "maximum common divisor" that everyone is satisfied with. By extension, if every cell of social life has elements of democracy, then democracy will become a trend in the whole society. From the perspective of the form and problem-solving ability of consultative democracy, grassroots consultative governance has flexible and rich forms, which are suitable for various complex problems in social life. Grassroots consultative governance has become an important aspect of innovation in Chinese style grassroots governance. Different regions and communities have designed different negotiation mechanisms and built distinctive negotiation platforms based on their own conditions and resources. These mechanisms and platforms can solve grassroots public affairs through institutionalized operations, and can also respond to people's concerns in life through non institutionalized forms. So, this flexibility can also enable democracy to flexibly solve various problems, ensuring the sustainable development of democracy in social life.
The democratic practice that connects political and social life. The construction of democracy in social life essentially needs to be interconnected with democracy in political life, and jointly build a comprehensive, full chain, and fully covered "great democracy" in the exercise of their respective functions. According to the Marxist concept of democracy, embedding democracy in social life is a path to boost the vitality of social organisms and stimulate the vibrant power of society itself. China's national governance has a huge scale, and the different functions and types of democratic models contained in the system of people being the masters of the country adapt to the basic requirements of great power governance. The vertical democratic system runs through different levels from the top to the grassroots. Among them, the people participate in democracy in political life through the election of representatives, participate in democracy in social life through grassroots autonomy, and provide upward feedback on difficult and universal problems in social life, enabling democracy to play a role in top-level design and social governance. The two-way interaction of democracy in political and social life ensures the hierarchical governance needs of a great country and also stimulates social vitality. Democratic construction, as a systematic project, requires functional linkage and element connection to achieve the effect of the overall function being greater than the sum of its parts. In this sense, democracy in social life and democracy in political life promote each other and jointly promote the process of Chinese path to modernization. The diverse forms and flexible mechanisms of democracy in social life provide new methods and technologies for democratic mechanisms in political life; Democracy in political life provides a solid political guarantee for the construction of democracy in social life through scientific decision-making and the construction of the system of people being the masters of the country.
Modernization is not only the progress of technology and material prosperity, but also the improvement of human realm and ability, as well as the purity of social atmosphere and the harmony of order. Building democracy in social life means making democracy a way of life for people in their daily lives and a practical means of cultivating good citizens in the new era. By directly participating in learning democratic skills, the people have increased their attention to public affairs and learned how to communicate and interact with other subjects. When people respect and treat each other in a civilized way, the overall social atmosphere will become more harmonious and orderly in civilized communication, and various social problems will be properly solved in democratic practice, thereby achieving progress between people and society. Facing the future, the construction of people's democracy in the whole process should not only innovate the system and mechanism in practice, improve the process design, open up the Internet channels, but also combine practice and theory, innovate the theoretical system and discourse system of people's democracy in the whole process in the journey of Chinese path to modernization, and contribute to the Chinese program of democratic theory and practice.
Guangming Daily
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