Robert Kuhn: The two sessions, an important perspective to understand Chinese democracy
2023-03-15
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation of the United States, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency a few days ago that the two sessions are held every year, but this year is of great significance because 2023 is the first year for China to fully implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has drawn a blueprint for China's future development. The goal of this blueprint is to comprehensively build a modern socialist country We will comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a famous international investment banker and corporate strategist, won the China Reform Friendship Medal in 2018. Kuhn said that China is committed to developing Chinese-style democracy, that is, people's democracy in the whole process. Chinese-style democracy is not a castle in the air. It includes various feedback and interaction mechanisms, especially the people's congresses at all levels. Its main goal is to ensure a good life for all Chinese people. Kuhn said that observing the operation of people's congresses at all levels is an important perspective to understand Chinese-style democracy, and the National People's Congress is the "top priority". Election of deputies to the National People's Congress is the basic premise for the people to be masters of the country, exercise state power and manage state affairs, and is also a link in the whole process of people's democracy. According to the electoral laws of the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at various levels, political parties and people's organizations may jointly or separately recommend candidates for deputies. Voters or representatives, with more than 10 members, may also recommend candidates for deputies. In order to ensure the fairness of the election, the election funds of the people's congresses at all levels are spent by the state treasury. The secret ballot ensures the free choice of voters, and acts that undermine the election will be severely punished. Voters' supervision of representatives can take various forms, such as listening to reports, making criticism, putting forward opinions and suggestions, and even removing representatives. He said that the election of deputies to the National People's Congress should keep pace with the times. The proportion of the population represented by urban and rural elected representatives has been adjusted from 1:8 in 1953 to 1:1 now, realizing the equality between urban and rural areas. At the same time, we will make arrangements for the number of deputies to the National People's Congress and the election to ensure that different groups have an appropriate proportion of deputies. In the past decade, Kuhn has been devoted to studying and investigating how China cares about the poorest people, and has visited more than 100 cities and villages. Kuhn said that in fact, many people do not understand China's practices. For example, a well-informed American, after watching a documentary about China's poverty alleviation action hosted and produced by him, said, "I never thought that Chinese leaders cared so much about the poor." This documentary, entitled "Voice of the Front: China's Poverty Alleviation", was shot for three years and broadcast in the United States in 2019, showing the CPC's provinces, cities, counties, townships How to implement the leadership's instructions on poverty alleviation by the village's five-level party organizations.
Edit:He Chuanning Responsible editor:Su Suiyue
Source:Xinhua
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