Abstract: Deng Xiaoping's political thought of democracy is erudite, among which, the definition of the role and position of democracy in socialist construction is its core-without democracy, then there will be without socialist modernization. The two decades of China's reform and opening-up are those in which Deng's thought has been developing and forming. Democratic power-transferring to lower levels is the red line running through his theory, the logical extension and connotation of which is the governmental institution reform. Deng's democratic thought and its democratic practice under his leadership has three basic characteristics: unity of developing democracy and keeping stability, of democracy in form and that in essence, and of democracy construction and construction of rule by law. These three kinds of unity are of specific guiding importance to our country's political system reform and political construction of democracy in nowadays and in future, which we must adhere to and should not depart from.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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