The System of Multiparty Cooperation and Political Consultation Under the Leadership of the CPC

The CPC values cooperation with other political parties, and it takes the united front as a strategic guideline and a source of political strength for enhancing cohesion and gaining public support.

After the Chinese people achieved national independence and attained liberation in the late 1940s, the CPC introduced a basic political system for the newly-founded People's Republic based on its previous policy of the united front and its good cooperation with other democratic parties and prominent individuals without party affiliation. This system has since then helped the CPC unite and mobilize all positive forces and turn negative factors into positive ones to serve the overall interests of national development.

From September 21 to 30, 1949, the First Plenary Session of the CPPCC was held. As the conditions were not ripe for convening a National People's Congress based on a general election, this plenary session acted in its capacity. It adopted the Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which functioned as an interim constitution of the People's Republic in its early days. It also passed the Organic Law of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Organic Law of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, and four resolutions on the state capital, national anthem, national flag, and calendar. The plenary session elected the National Committee of the CPPCC and the Council of the Central People's Government, thus proclaiming the establishment of the new state – the People's Republic of China.

The convening of this plenary session marked the formation of the patriotic united front and the great solidarity of the Chinese people, and the creation of the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC.

Under this system, the CPC is the only governing party in the People's Republic of China, and the eight other political parties work closely with the CPC as partners and participate in government under its leadership. Also, under the CPC's leadership, the eight parties, people's groups, and representatives of ethnic minority groups and social sectors conduct pre-decision-making consultation on national priorities and major issues in politics, the economy, culture and social activities, and on problems emerging during the implementation of the decisions made.

The CPPCC is an organization of the patriotic united front, an agency for multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the CPC's leadership, a major channel for people's democracy, an institution specializing in socialist consultative democracy, a body dedicated to consultation, and an important component of China's state governance system. It is an institutional arrangement with Chinese features.

Since 1949, the CPPCC has, under the CPC's leadership, worked to promote unity and democracy and followed the principles of maintaining long-time partnership of the CPC and other political parties, with mutual oversight and mutual trust, and a shared desire to forge ahead together through thick or thin. It has performed its duties of political consultation, democratic oversight, and participation in and deliberation on state affairs; it has organized all political parties, social groups, ethnic groups, social strata, and people from all sectors to discuss state affairs, expand common ground, and build consensus, thus pooling great strength for the realization of national rejuvenation.

The system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC is a basic political system applied in China, a result of the CPC's integrating Marxist-Leninist theories on the united front, political parties and democracy with China's realities, and a political institution created by the CPC and other political parties, prominent citizens without party affiliation, people's organizations, and people from all ethnic groups and social sectors. It is a new political model rooted in the Chinese soil. It has proved to be a system suitable to China's own conditions, which also reflects China's advocacy of a sense of community, all-embracing tradition, and seeking common ground while reserving differences. It is a contribution to human political civilization.

中國共產黨領導的多黨合作和政治協商制度

中國共產黨歷來高度重視多黨合作，并把統一戰線作為凝聚人心、匯聚力量的政治優勢和戰略方針。在中國人民爭取民族獨立和人民解放取得歷史性勝利之際，中國共產黨把統一戰線政策和戰爭年代同各民主黨派、無黨派民主人士合作協商的優良傳統，及時轉變為新中國的基本政治制度，以團結一切可以團結的力量，調動一切積極因素，努力化消極因素為積極因素，為實現國家建設的總任務、總目標服務。

1949年9月21日至30日，中國人民政治協商會議第一屆全體會議召開。在當時還不具備召開普選的全國人民代表大會的條件下，中國人民政治協商會議第一屆全體會議代行全國人民代表大會職權，通過了具有臨時憲法性質的《中國人民政治協商會議共同綱領》，通過了《中國人民政治協商會議組織法》《中華人民共和國中央人民政府組織法》，作出關于中華人民共和國國都、國旗、國歌、紀年4個重要決議，選舉中國人民政治協商會議全國委員會和中華人民共和國中央人民政府委員會，宣告中華人民共和國的成立。這次會議標志著愛國統一戰線和全國人民大團結在組織上完全形成，標志著中國共產黨領導的多黨合作和政治協商制度正式確立。

中國共產黨領導的多黨合作制就是：中國共產黨是中華人民共和國的唯一執政黨，8個民主黨派在接受中國共產黨領導的前提下，具有參政黨的地位，與中共合作，參與執政。政治協商制度是在中國共產黨的領導下，各民主黨派、各人民團體、各少數民族和社會各界的代表，對國家的大政方針以及政治、經濟、文化和社會生活中的重要問題在決策之前舉行協商和就決策執行過程中的重要問題進行協商的制度。

中國人民政治協商會議是中國人民愛國統一戰線的組織，是中國共產黨領導的多黨合作和政治協商的機構，是人民民主的重要實現形式，是社會主義協商民主的重要渠道和專門協商機構，是國家治理體系的重要組成部分，是具有中國特色的制度安排。70多年來，在中國共產黨的領導下，人民政協圍繞團結和民主兩大主題，貫徹中國共產黨與各民主黨派長期共存、互相監督、肝膽相照、榮辱與共的方針，發揮政治協商、民主監督、參政議政的職能，有效組織各黨派、各團體、各民族、各階層、各界人士共商國是，努力尋求最大公約數、畫出最大同心圓，匯聚起實現中華民族偉大復興的磅礴力量。

中國共產黨領導的多黨合作和政治協商制度作為中國一項基本政治制度，是中國共產黨把馬克思列寧主義統一戰線理論、政黨理論、民主政治理論同中國實際相結合的偉大成果，是中國共產黨領導各民主黨派、無黨派人士、人民團體和各族各界人士在政治制度上進行的偉大創造，是從中國土壤中生長出來的新型政黨制度。實踐充分證明，中國共產黨領導的多黨合作和政治協商制度不僅符合當代中國實際，而且符合中華民族一貫倡導的天下為公、兼容并蓄、求同存異等優秀傳統文化，是對人類政治文明的重大貢獻。