Public opinion solicitation is an important way for the public to directly participate in the legislation, including the soliciting opinions of the legislative body, public participation and feedback, etc.
The Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China explicitly put forward advancement of scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and law-based legislation to promote development and safeguarding good governance with good laws.
The Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the Basic Policy that pointed out in the report mentioned that the importance of Committing to a people-centered approach. The people are the creators of history, they are the fundamental force that determines our Party and country’s future. The party must ensure the principal status of the people, and adhere to the Party’s commitment to serving the public good and exercising power in the interests of the people and must observe the Party’s fundamental purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people, and put into practice the Party’s mass line in all aspects of governance. The party must regard as their goal the people’s aspirations to live a better life, and rely on the people to move history forward.
The people are the masters of the country. Ensuring every dimension of governance is law-based. Law-based governance is an essential requirement and important guarantee for socialism with Chinese characteristics, must exercise Party leadership at every point in the process and over every dimension of law-based. Society, must continue to promote a combination of rule of law and rule of virtue, and combine law-based governance of the country and rule-based governance over the Party, further the reform of the judicial system, and strengthen rule of law awareness among all the people while also enhancing their moral integrity.
Improving the System of Institutions through Which the People Run the Country and Developing Socialist Democracy also delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Upholding the unity of Party leadership, the running of the country by the people, and law-based governance. Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for ensuring that the people run the country and governance in China is law-based; that the people run the country is an essential feature of socialist democracy; and law-based governance is the basic way for the Party to lead the people in governing the country. These three elements are integral components of socialist democracy. In China’s political life, the Party exercises leadership. Strengthening the centralized, unified leadership of the Party on the one hand and, on the other, supporting the people’s congresses, governments, committees of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), courts in performing their functions in accordance with the law and their charters, form a unified pair. The Party should uphold the unity, sanctity, and authority of China’s legal system, and strengthen legal protection for human rights to ensure that the people enjoy extensive rights and freedoms as prescribed by law, should both consolidate government and improve the institutions of democracy at the primary level to ensure the people’s rights to be informed, to participate, to be heard, and to oversee. Will improve mechanisms for law-based decision-making, put in place mechanisms for the exercise of power that build decision science, resolute execution, and effective oversight. Officials at all levels must deepen their understanding of democracy, be democratic in their conduct, willingly accept public oversight, and perform as they should in their role as public servants.
Besides, defend the political right of the constitution to give citizens the freedom of expression and safeguarding the Law Established Meets the Core Connotation of Democracy. It also noticeably increased the people’s consciousness of the need to promote the rule of law by giving wide publicity and education on the rule of law and improving the mechanism for the popularization of the law.