On September 11, 2023, the courtyard meeting room in Caochang Sitiao Hutong welcomed several special guests: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) president Duarte Pacheco, president of the IPU Bureau of Women Parliamentarians Cynthia López Castro, president of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace Ahmed Al Jarwan and secretary general Zoran Ilievski. They gathered to have discussions and exchanges on the practice of the system of people's congresses in China and the philosophy of whole-process people's democracy at the grassroots level.
Diplomats from 36 countries, including Mozambique, El Salvador and Seychelles, were invited to visit the Nanmofang township legislative liaison station, which is under the local legislative outreach office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China located in the Chaoyang district in Beijing.
At the invitation of Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, speaker of the House of Assembly Patricia Deveaux and president of the Senate Julie LaShell Adderley of the Bahamian parliament jointly led a delegation to visit China from April 7 to 12.
A number of diplomats have appreciated China's extensive level of participation and diverse platforms to fulfill democracy, underscoring that every democratic model should be respected.
Experts at an international forum on democracy have said that Chinese democracy and governance, characterized by being responsive to people's voices, have proved effective.
The two sessions offer the world an important window to observe China's democracy.
Whole-process people's democracy ensures that the people run the country and drives China to continue progressing.
The annual sessions of the national legislature and political advisory body, or the "two sessions," are one of the most significant events in the Chinese political calendar, providing a window to observe the ideas and practices of whole-process people's democracy.