China's Two Sessions 2023.

In negation of the perception that China's two sessions are an eyewash, the world is admitting gradually that they are the core to all-round success as what is designed, decided and implemented by lawmakers and political advisors in cohesion leads to positive impacts on people's life and developments in global affairs. The 14th NPC and CPPCC's annual gatherings have helped global leadership understand the functionality of socialist democracy and its grassroots dynamics. They have unboxed the nitty-gritty of knowledge to know how a system propelled by socialism with Chinese characteristics led by President Xi Jinping and his team is producing decent results in terms of eradication of absolute poverty, the challenges of pre and post Covid-19 and economic sustainability in China with people-centric policies. The global effects of the two sessions are profound and wide-ranging considering the reality that China is the second-largest economy in the world and a global player in the geo-economic, geo-political and geo-strategic affairs of the world. On the issue of democratization which is among the top priorities of the world, two sessions have ignited a pragmatic sense of whole-process democracy. It does not draw parallels with other democracies practiced in the world rather it has its own exclusive modalities and doctrines.

In the words of the Chinese president, 'Whether a country is democratic or not depends on whether its people are truly the masters of the country. It depends on whether the people have the right to vote, and more importantly, the right to participate.' In China, deputies to county and township-level people's congresses are directly elected by voters, while deputies to congresses above the county level are elected by deputies at the next lower level. Till last June, over 1 billion voters had cast their ballots on a one-person-one-vote basis in elections of over 2.6 million deputies to people's congresses at the township and county levels, according to the General Office of the Standing Committee of the NPC. Even the...