Changjiang Daily:

At present, the global economy's recovery remains sluggish, turbulence and conflicts in some regions continue to flare up, and there are myriad other intensifying global issues. In the face of these problems, some Western scholars have said that they should learn political wisdom from the East. My question is, what enlightenment can China's new political party system provide for the political advancement of mankind? Thank you.

Chen Xu:

I will answer this question. Thank you for your question. As we introduced before, China's new type of political party system has distinctive Chinese characteristics and Chinese cultural deposits, showing unique advantages and strong vitality in China's political and social life. At the same time, the reason why China's new type of political system has attracted the attention of the world is that it can provide a useful reference for the development of the world's political party system, enrich theoretical political party systems, and make great contributions to the political advancement of mankind. This has been demonstrated in the following aspects.

Firstly, it has created a new political party system model. China's political party system is neither a rival multiparty system, arbitrary one-party system, nor the so-called multiparty coalition system. It is a new system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC. The organic integration of the leadership of CPC and multiparty cooperation has demonstrated the unity of purpose and direction, the expansion of political unity and orderly participation, developed unique advantages in a one-party leadership rather than autocracy, multiparty cooperation rather than confrontation, and mutual supervision rather than constraints, and guaranteed the right direction and vigorous vitality of multiparty cooperation.

Secondly, it has invented a whole new kind of political party relationship. In China's political party system, the CPC has formed a relationship featuring cooperation and harmony with other political parties. As the leading and ruling party, the CPC has actively created conditions for other political parties to participate in governance. As the participating parties, the other political parties have vigorously assisted the ruling party to better revitalize the country and benefit the people. The CPC and the other political parties supervise each other rather than constrain. The CPC and the other political parties are close and serious friends who offer each other unreserved advice and criticism. The harmonious political party relationship has helped to form a political situation in which the ruling party is single-mindedly pursuing development, and participating parties are working together to advance development.

Thirdly, it has generated a whole new kind of mode of governance. As the ruling party, the CPC has encouraged other political parties to participate in government affairs, conduct democratic supervision, and engage in political consultation under the leadership of the CPC so as to give full play to the characteristics of their respective sectors and the advantages of their talents, allow them to extensively participate in national political and social affairs, and help the CPC to govern the country in a better way. In the multiparty cooperation system, opinions and suggestions are pooled in accordance with institutionalized, standardized, and procedural arrangements to make decision-making scientific and democratic.

The practice has proven that as an institutional model unique to China and suited to China's national conditions, the new political party system has created a brand new model of party politics in the history of world political parties. It is the Chinese wisdom that China has provided to the development of the world political party system and a major contribution that China has made to the political advancement of mankind. We are fully confident that we will provide China's solution to humanity's exploration for a better social system. Thank you.

Chen Wenjun:

Thank you to all speakers and friends from the media. Today's press conference is now concluded.

Translated and edited by Duan Yaying, Huang Shan, Yan Bin, Wang Wei, Xu Kailin, Liu Sitong, Yang Xi, Li Huiru, Qin Qi, Liu Qiang, Wang Qian, Zhang Liying, Yuan Fang, Zhang Tingting, Zhang Jiaqi, David Ball, Tom Arnsten, and Jay Birbeck. In case of any discrepancy between the English and Chinese texts, the Chinese version is deemed to prevail.