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consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms,
follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership;
increase our confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with

Chinese characteristics; and uphold both General Secretary Xi Jinping’s core
position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the CPC

Central Committee’s authority and its centralized, unified leadership.
We need to continuously improve the organizational systems, institutions, and
mechanisms through which the CPC exercises leadership over CPPCC work, so as

to enable the CPPCC to better fulfill its major roles of strengthening and upholding
Party leadership over all areas of work, of applying the Party’s latest theories to

unite, educate, and guide public figures from all ethnic groups and social sectors,
and of resolving problems and building consensus based on a shared theoretical

and political foundation. With these efforts, we will ensure the CPC’s overall
leadership over CPPCC work.

2. Correctly understanding the nature and position of the CPPCC
This is both a prerequisite for the CPPCC to maintain the correct political
orientation and the basis upon which it will perform its role more effectively. The

CPPCC is an organization of the united front, an institution for multiparty
cooperation and political consultation, and an important means of practicing

whole-process people’s democracy. As such, it is a key channel for socialist
consultative democracy and a specialized consultative institution.

Consultation is a defining feature of the CPPCC system. It is from consultation
that its unique strengths originate. Consultation is the principle underpinning

CPPCC work and the basic way it operates. It is through consultation that we
promote extensive unity, advance multiparty cooperation, and practice people’s
democracy. The CPPCC is, by nature and role, an institution dedicated to

consultation. Such a definition reflects the new significance invested in the
CPPCC’s position and functions in the new era.

The CPPCC is not the principal entity in consultation; it serves as an
institutional consultative platform for promoting democracy, unity, and

cooperation and for engaging people in the deliberation of state affairs. We must
ensure effective operation of consultation systems, so that the opinions and

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