President Xi Jinping has underlined further promoting whole-process democracy that enables the Chinese people to be broadly involved in national governance, saying that whether a country is democratic or not depends on whether it is truly run by the people.
A central conference on work related to people's congresses was held from Wednesday to Thursday in Beijing.
A special symposium hosted by President Xi Jinping 10 months ago has remained an inspiring experience for Pan Jiuren, a deputy headmaster of a primary school in Central China's Hunan province.
With the people's well-being in mind, President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has since 2013 leveraged the two sessions to hold discussions with grassroots-level lawmakers and political advisers from across the country, listening to their suggestions on the country's development.
President Xi Jinping reiterated on Friday the importance of furthering the nation's whole-process people's democracy to better ensure that the people run the country, as he took part in the election of people's congress deputies in Beijing.
Top legislator Li Zhanshu on Friday stressed the need to further comprehensively enforce the Constitution of the People's Republic of China to promote the construction of a modern socialist country in all respects.
Senior legislators met on Friday to study an important speech delivered by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, at a central conference on work related to people's congresses.
Democracy is a common value of humanity and an ideal that has always been cherished by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese people.