The Essence and Core of Socialist Democratic Politics

Essence and core: the people are the masters of the country.

People being masters of their own affairs is the essence and core of socialist democratic politics. People's democracy is the life of socialism. Without democracy, there would be no socialism, no socialist modernization and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In Socialism with Chinese characteristics's political ecology, people being masters of their own affairs is not only the core component of the political discourse system shaped by the Party, but also the specific political content of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system created by the Party.

Meaning understanding:

The people's eyes are discerning, and the people are omnipresent supervisory forces. Only by letting the people supervise the government will the government not slack off; Only when everyone is responsible can people not die. As the most common and well-known political discourse in China's political life, people are masters of their own affairs, which has a strong political symbolic significance and actually plays an ideological role in regulating the practice of political life.

The system of people's congresses, as a fundamental political system arrangement that embodies the people being the masters of the country, provides an instrumental institutional channel for the people to be the masters of the country from the institutional level-electing people's satisfied representatives to power organs at all levels to perform state management functions on behalf of the people.

This is the most important way for the people to be masters of the country in China's political life, but it is by no means the only way for the people to participate in the management of the country and society. After all, compared with those elected to represent the people, most people are still excluded from the institutionalized power structure.