A Political Analysis Of The Contemporary China's Reform

Crisis of legitimacy refers to the case that the rulers failed to establish a moral trust and loyalty among the people, or that the political legitimacy got first but lost then. The legitimacy of political rule include the following three aspects to a regime: the legitimacy of politic authority, the ideological legitimacy, the performance-based legitimacy. Accordingly, the legitimacy crisis can also be divided into three types: a crisis of political authority, ideological crisis and political crisis in the performance.Legitimacy refers to whether the power system and how to get the public recognition and support. Any one country needs to enhance the legitimacy of the rulers to meet some of the key voters for their performance expectations. The legitimacy of the Communist Party of China is mainly based on a mixture of three types of legitimacy:At the beginning of the founding, the party led the people in the national economic recovery, the socialist reform movement, strengthened the legitimacy of political performance, consolidated the ideology legitimacy. Through this package of measures, the party layed a solid foundation for the legitimacy of the ruling ; However, the party made a series of serious mistakes after 1957, such as the rapid development of the cult of personality, the spread of "Left" ideas in the field of ideology , the "Great Leap Forward", the "Cultural Revolution". As a result, a serious crisis of political authority, ideological and political performance arose at the last stage of Cultural Revolution so that the party's ruling legitimacy were damaged greatly. All these crises are breeders of great Reform in history.The great achievements of contemporary China's reform is to overcome the crisis to the revival, that is to say, it is the renovation and modification of political authority , ideology and Political Performance, Facing a serious crisis of legitimacy of the critical juncture, the party summed up the historical experience and lessons since the founding of New China, started to overcome the crisis and reform the legality of the revitalization from national conditions. Through the Criticism of "two whatevers" to eliminate the personality cult, to reaffirm and strengthen the principle of collective leadership and building a socialist political civilization, advocating democracy, rule of law, the party has achieved the political authority transition; In the ideological transformation and reconstruction, through a new interpretation of Mao Zedong thinking, the development of Marxism in contemporary China, the Deng Xiaoping Theory, "Three Represents" concept of scientific development and Socialist core value system, the party has enhanced the persuasiveness and credibility of the ideology; Through the development of the economy, enhancing national strength and improving people's livelihood, saving the lives of hardship, punishing corrupt officials severely, the anti-corruption campaign, the party has upgraded political performance and enhanced her political performance.After 30 years' reform we have achieved glorious achievements, but the crisis of legitimacy hasn't been eliminated, the reasons are manifested from the following aspects: The legal authority has not yet been established ultimately, the public trust in ideology remains to be enhanced, political performance requires further consolidate and expand. There is still a long way to go to China's reform, but the future is bright.