President Xi Jinping emphasized while addressing a central conference on work related to people's congresses, held from October 13 to 14 in Beijing, that the country should continue to uphold and improve the people's congresses system, with an aim at enhancing whole-process people's democracy.
Democracy with Chinese characteristics is whole-process people's democracy, and despite the so-called Western democracies' claims to the contrary, it is a model of democracy that has proved its effectiveness and worth time and again.
"A basic criterion of democracy should be whether the people have the right to govern their country, whether their needs are met, and whether they have a sense of fulfillment and happiness.
In line with its own unique conditions, China has successfully practiced the whole-process democracy which best suits the country's development needs in a new era.
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