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We attached strong importance to fostering a culture of consultation and
worked actively to create a favorable atmosphere for consultation so as to see
opinions are freely and openly expressed in a rational and legitimate way. The

guidelines on strengthening and improving the work of municipal- and
county-level CPPCC committees were put into effect to allow these committees

to better contribute to primary-level governance.
4. Building broad consensus to lay a solid political and social foundation for the
CPC to lead the people in exercising national governance

With a keen understanding of the requirements and characteristics of
CPPCC work in the new era, we took solid measures to expand common

ground and achieve the greatest possible convergence of interests.
We used momentous occasions and major events as opportunities to

strengthen theoretical and political work. For example, as we celebrated the
70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China and the

centenary of the CPC, we organized special Party lectures for CPC members on
the CPPCC National Committee and issued public letters to encourage all
members to forge ahead in greater unity and solidarity.

We expanded the channels for building consensus. The National
Committee’s leading Party members’ group introduced an open discussion

system through which group members and leading members of the CPC
branch groups of special committees exchanged views with National

Committee members who are not in the CPC. These discussions registered a
cumulative attendance of 3,994. Such sincere and open talks helped generate

greater support from non-CPC members.
Covering such topics as “Studying the 100-year history of the CPC to
increase identification with the motherland, the Chinese nation, Chinese

culture, and socialism with Chinese characteristics,” we organized inspection
tours involving members from 34 different sectors, produced and broadcast 46

committee-member lecture programs on the themes of carrying forward the
spirit of Chinese Communists and telling the story of multi-party cooperation

well, and hosted 68 National Committee member awareness-raising lectures
for special tasks of major significance such as studying and implementing the

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