Qiushi journal ｜ Excerpt: National Legislative "through traffic"

(Excerpts from “Local Legislative Outreach Offices: A Vivid Example of Whole-Process People’s Democracy in China” by Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, Qiushi Journal, No. 02, 2022)

National legislation "through traffic"

Direct Lines to National Legislation for the Public

Grass -roots legislative contact points are called the national legislative "through traffic" by the masses. This democratic legislative mechanism has opened up the channel for the highest national legislature to contact the grassroots people to directly contact the people of the grassroots, and realizes the democracy between the two in the whole national legislation process. Participating, democratic expression, and democratic decision -making "sound and breath", showing the authenticity, people's nature and extensiveness of people's democracy, and reflecting the people's democracy and solid opinion of the people's democracy. This is the so -called "street politics" of some Western countries, "Citizen voting", "Outside of Overnight" and other oral democracy that are not comparable to democracy cannot be comparable.

Local legislative outreach offices have been described as direct lines to national legislation for the public. This democratic legislation mechanism creates a channel for direct contact between the country's highest legislative office and people at the community level, which facilitates communication between the two sides during the entire national legislative process of democratic participation, expression, and decision-making. This demonstrates the authenticity and the people-centered and expansive nature of people's democracy, and reflects the solid foundation of public opinion on which whole-process people's democracy is built. It is a Form of Genuine Democracy Compared to Those that Western Countries Pay Lip Service to, Like Street Politics, ReferenceEndums, and Lobbying.

Source: "Seeking" English version

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