Exploration And Analysis On Standing System Of The Party’s Representative Congress

The implementation of a permanent system for the party congress is an important method of improving the system of the party congress and the democracy within the party to a higher level. Since 1988, some areas throughout the country, composed mainly of counties (cities or districts), have tried out the permanent system for the party congress one by one, and active explorations have been done into such aspects as playing the role of the representatives during the adjournment of the party congress, strengthening the supervision within the party, and enlarging the democracy within the party. In 2004, Baixia District of Nanjing was approved respectively by the Jiangsu Province and Nanjing as the pilot area to launch a permanent system for the party congress. With Baixia District of Nanjing as a case study and compared with the ways of launching the permanent system for the party congress in Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, Yaan in Sichuan Province and Luotian in Hubei Province, the article sums up the basic mode of launching the permanent system for the party congress at present, and analyzes the existing difference as well as the problems currently met in the operation of the permanent system for the party congress and the reason, mainly including the unclear relationship between the party congress and the committee or the standing committee, between the party congress and the people’s congress or the political consultative conference, the poor overall quality of the representatives of the party congress, and some deep reasons such as the different ideological understanding, the hard resistance of traditional system, the deficient development of the democracy within the party and the imperfect system construction. On this basis, the suggestions on further development and improvement of a permanent system for the party congress are mainly as follows: to clear up the relationship between the party congress and the committee or the standing committee, between the party congress and the people’s congress or the political consultative conference, to clear up the relationship between the representatives of the party congress and the voters, to improve the whole range of systems in the permanent system for the party congress including the annual system for the party congress, the tenure system for the representatives and other supporting working systems, to take note of fostering the thinking power, the upper power and the lower power, and to set the permanent organization for the congress in a scientific way.