Implementing Whole-Process Democracy for High-Quality Legislative Work in the New Era

In November 2019,Chinese President Xi Jinping visited a local legislative outreach office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress(NPC)in Hongqiao neighborhood in Shanghai.In a conversation with Chinese and foreign residents attending a consultation meeting on a draft law,President Xi Jinping said,“We are following a path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics,and our people’s democracy is a whole-process democracy.”Again in his speech at the ceremony marking the centenary of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in July 2021,President Xi Jinping also emphasized the need to“develop whole-process people’s democracy.”