On February 27, 2025, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Congress News Center, located in the Beijing Media Center, was officially opened. The Third Session of the 14th National People’s Congress and the Third Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference will open in Beijing on March 5 and March 4 respectively.
A press center for China’s annual sessions of its top legislature and political advice body, known as the “two sessions”, opened at the Media Center Hotel in Beijing on February 27, 2025. The third session of the 14th National People’s Congress and the third session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference will kick off on March 5 and March 4, Respectively.
On February 27, 2025, media reporters and staff were busy at the National Two Sessions News Center. Image source: Xinhua News Agency
【Knowledge Points】
The National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference are a general term for the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference held every year since 1978, which is what we usually call the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Since these two meetings are basically synchronized and are very important to the operation of the country, it is simply called the National Two Sessions.
The National People’s Congress is the highest state power organ, and its permanent organ is the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The National People’s Congress and the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress exercise national legislative power. The National People’s Congress is composed of representatives elected by provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, special administrative regions and the military, and all ethnic minorities should have appropriate quotas of representatives. The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference is an organization of the patriotic united front of the Chinese people, an important institution for multi-party cooperation and political consultation led by the Communist Party of China, an important form of promoting socialist democracy in China’s political life, an important channel and special consultation body for socialist consultative democracy, an important part of the national governance system and an institutional arrangement with Chinese characteristics. Both are held annually, with a term of five years each.
【Important Speech】
We must always put the people first. The people are the decisive force to build a modern socialist country in all respects.
It is a must to put the people first on the new journey of building China into a great modern socialist country and advancing national rejuvenation. The people are the decisive force in building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects.
——On March 13, 2023, Xi Jinping’s important speech at the first session of the 14th National People’s Congress
Our country is a socialist country under the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants, and all state power belongs to the people. People’s democracy is the life of socialism and is a natural meaning for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country. People’s democracy throughout the whole process is the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, and it is the broadest, most authentic and most effective democracy. We must unswervingly follow the path of political development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the organic unity of the Party’s leadership, the people’s mastery of their own affairs, and the rule of law, adhere to the people’s dominant position, fully reflect the will of the people, protect the rights and interests of the people, and stimulate the people’s creative vitality.
China is a socialist country of people’s democratic dictatorship under the leadership of the working class based on an alliance of workers and farmers; all power of the state in China belongs to the people. People’s democracy is the lifeblood of socialism, and it is integral to our efforts to build a modern socialist country in all respects. Whole-process people’s democracy is the defining feature of socialist democracy; it is democracy in Its broadcast, most genenuine, and most effective form. We must firmly stay on the path of socialist political advancement with Chinese characteristics, uphold the unity between Party leadership, the running of the country by the people, and law-based government, and ensure the principal position of the people, so as to give full expression to their will, protect their rights and interests, and spark their creativity.
——October 16, 2022, Xi Jinping’s report at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
【Related Words】
People’s Democracy in the Whole Process
whole-process people’s democracy
The people are the masters of their own
the running of the country by the people
China Daily Network English Dots and Tianjin Studio (this article was first published on the “Study Strong Country” learning platform)
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