Contemporary China, The First General Election In Study

Based on raw materials of file and recollects of witness,centered on the circumstances of political econology of the beginning of the People's Republic of China,the dissertation arranged the first grass-root election that happened in Beijing from 1953 to 1954. in detail. The grass-root election can be divided into the three stages chronologically:typical tentative stage, the important stage and pervasive stage .The dissertation is made up of preface,body and conclusion.The preface introduces the reason for topic,the value of research ,the research development in china,the important,difficult and creative parts,the means of research, the plot and structure of the dissertation ,which make readers know the academic,historic and present value of the dissertation.The body consists of nine chapters.in chapter 1,we discussed the election that was held during the New Democracyism Revolution led by the Communist Party of China.During the First Civil War in China,the election held in Soviet Region is tentative.During the Anti-Japanese war,the election held in Yan'an partial reins period .which made the CPC's election thought ripe gradually and accumulated rich experience.During the Second Civil War in China,compared with the Anti-Japanese war,the principle,method of election is very different and election was characterized by transition.Chapter 2,introduces the background and reasons of election policy. Firstly,anaylizes the domestic background.the objective condition that is closely relative to election is that the CPC held congress meeting at all levels from 1949 to 1952,which made CPC achieve rich experience of democratic construction plus the end of military action.completion of the Land Reform and recovery of national economy.Secondly,anaylizes international background.Starlin who made some suggestions on Chinese election during Liu Shaoqi payed a visit to Soviet Union in 1952.At last,The CPC'committee decided the grass-root election in China,and made the correlative policy and regulations.Chapter 3, Firstly,introduces the historic evolution and human geography.Secondly,introduces the preparation of process of election in Beijing from January to July 1953,CPC's committee of Beijing prepared a lot for coming election.At the beginning of 1953,CPC's committee of Beijing held a discussion and forums about election.later,a special team that investigated obstacles to election and provided ways to solve them was formed.Meanwhile,organization was established.fully staffed;propaganda campaign dicision of elective district were carried out.Chapter 4,during typical tentative stage from June to mid-August of 1953,CPC's committee of Beijing and metropolitan government selected Xidan district.Haidian district and Dongjiao district ,because Xidan district standed for urban area,Haidian district suburb and Dongjiao rural area.the three different areas existed distinct diversity.The character of this stage election was to understand the potential problems and grasped the basic experience of eletion. Chapter 5,during the important tentative stage,because of the limit experience gained from the former stage,the whole district of Xidan was selected as the important tentative area by CPC's committee of Beijing to achieve sufficient experience.the stage lasted two months from October to December 1953.This stage witnessed great changes,such as the dicision of elective district,the scrutiny of elector and the nomination of candidate and etc,especially the mature experience and process were explored,on which the latter stage could be fully carried out.In chapter 6 7,The two chapters were allotted to discuss the whole election due to many problems and much content.the former-the typical tentative stage and the important tentative stage were prerequisite for the whole election.the latter is the former's result.and is also the core of the dissertation .From December 1953 to March 1954,the whole election had been held throughout the whole city except Xidan district, which provided as the panorama of Beijing's election and could help as to understand and grasp the election.Chapter 8,we generalized from the election and got character of the election.There were characters as follows: 1,effective political mobilization.2,activist played an important role. 3,the CPS predominated over the election. 4,the political culture of socialism,namely clan contradiction rumed through the election. 5,the thought of practical democracy was stressed on.Chapter 9, It was composed of two parts:achievements and defects.through the election,democratic in Beijing city had made great progress:the political level of mass was improved and the level of participation in politics was promoted,the People's Congress at all levels was held,the system of People's Congress was established;the power at all levels was founded.The election set a basic mode for CPS and had great effect on the later election.There were problems.1,The election wasn't combined with the acquisition of power legitimacy.2,The CPS didn't hold the election scientifically and reasonably.3,The phenomenon of forced order existed in election.In conclusion, we put forward some advices: 1,how to stict to CPC's lead scientifically and reasonably. 2, how to comment on the practical democracy in election. 3,how to enlarge the scope of direct election. 4,how to adopt competitive election in proper time. How to solve the above problems correctly is important to democratic political constructure of China in theory and practice.