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China is not a liberal or representative democracy. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government state that China is a socialist democracy and a people's democratic dictatorship. [4] Under Xi Jinping, China is also termed a whole-process people's democracy.
The authoritarian government in China suppresses protests that challenge the authority of the government while showing greater tolerance for protests that are rooted in localized economic or social unrest. [37] Under Xi Jinping's rule, the government has resorted to greater suppression of dissent. [37]
Article 1 of the Constitution describes China as "a socialist state under the people's democratic dictatorship" [6] meaning that the system is based on an alliance of the working classes—in communist terminology, the workers and peasants—and is led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the vanguard of the
The concept of people's democratic dictatorship is rooted in the "new" type of democracy promoted by Mao Zedong in Yan'an during the Chinese Civil War. [2] [3] In a September 1948 report to the Politburo, Mao called for establishing "a people's democratic dictatorship based on an alliance of workers and peasants under proletarian leadership."
Rule by a government under the sovereignty of rational laws and civic right as opposed to one under theocratic systems of government. In a nomocracy, ultimate and final authority (sovereignty) exists in the law. Cyberocracy: Rule by a computer, which decides based on computer code and efficient use of information. This is closely linked to ...
While operating under strict control and supervision by the central government, China's local governments manage relatively high share of fiscal revenues and expenditures. [39] Their level of authority and autonomy in economic decision-making is high, and they have played a major role in national economic development.
China: Democracy That Works (Chinese: 中国的民主 [1]; lit. 'China's Democracy') is a white paper issued by China's State Council Information Office on 4 December 2021. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The white paper lays out various aspects of the Chinese political system , which it claims constitute a whole-process people's democracy .
Dang Guo (Chinese: 黨國; pinyin: Dǎngguó; lit. 'party-state'), also known as Tang Kuo, was the one-party system adopted by the Republic of China (ROC) under the Kuomintang, lasting from 1924 to 1987. It was adopted after Sun Yat-sen acknowledged the efficacy of the nascent Soviet Union's political system, including its system of dictatorship.