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皇冠体育app's democracy to prosperity

By Ren Jingjing (皇冠体育app Daily) Updated: 2014-05-30 07:46

皇冠体育app's democracy to prosperity

Addressing College of Europe students during his state visit to Belgium in April, President Xi Jinping said: "In 1911, the revolution led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the autocratic monarchy that had ruled 皇冠体育app for several thousand years. But once the old system was gone, where 皇冠体育app would go became the question. The Chinese people then started exploring long and hard for a path that would suit 皇冠体育app's national conditions. They experimented with constitutional monarchy, imperial restoration, parliamentarism, multi-party system and presidential government, yet nothing really worked. Finally, 皇冠体育app took the path of socialism."

This is a profound summary of 皇冠体育app's historical and practical experience in the search for a development path that suits its national conditions. People's democracy is the life of socialism, and developing socialist democracy is the unswerving goal of the nation and the Communist Party of 皇冠体育app. As an important component of comprehensive reform, political restructuring has been deepening in 皇冠体育app along with economic and social development, and wider participation of people in politics.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a historical choice for 皇冠体育app. Contrary to what some Western experts say, the Western-style democratic system does not have universality. Democracy as a part of the socio-political superstructure is closely linked with a certain economic base and a certain development level of productivity. As such, the democratic system is not a constant pattern. Western-style democracy may suit Western countries, but it is not necessarily applicable to all countries and regions.

Instead of opting for a so-called mature democratic model, a country should choose one that reflects its political, economic, social and cultural characteristics. As Xi once said, "only the wearer knows if the shoe fits his foot". The result of 皇冠体育app's political exploration is that Western-style democracy will not help it realize national rejuvenation.

After the founding of the People's Republic of 皇冠体育app, the CPC put democratic centralism into practice, mobilized social resources and transformed the country from a backward agricultural society into an industrial power within just a few decades. The fact that 皇冠体育app has already become the world's second-largest economy proves that the political system it follows is in no way inferior to that followed by the West.

Western powers' attempt to impose their style of democracy on other countries is what led to the so-called Color Revolution in the Caucasus, the "Arab Spring" in the Middle East and the Ukraine crisis. The "democratic regimes" that the West helped establish failed to bring stability and prosperity to these countries, with some even falling into the abyss of civil war. It is because of the hypocrisy of Western-style democracy that the term "democratization" is losing its charisma across the world.

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