Research On The Citizen Participation Problems In The Angle Of Representative Democrary Theory

China is a multi-ethnic country, maintenance of each national interests and balanceddevelopment of all nationalities is the state has always attached importance to the ethnicdemocracy, prosperity and stability of the region to safeguard China’s unity,progress ofthe society is more important. So, minority areas can smoothly carry on citizenparticipation, the citizen participation can express their opinions freely, is crucial forlocal development. Along with our country citizen living standards improve, more peopleinvolved, however in the citizen participation in the premise of high emotion, mechanismand guarantee mechanism of citizen participation in our country has not developed thecorresponding, led to the citizen participation due to participate in fewer channels can notparticipate or to participate without a sound security mechanisms to protect the interestsof funds leads to their own interests.Representative democracy is defined by the citizens through elected representativesto form a government, instead of the people exercise power. The rights of citizens is thetransition to the government, the citizen is the owner of the power. So, in a representativedemocracy, citizens could own interests expression is very good, the realization of theirrights. Therefore, perfecting the representative democracy has an important role topromote citizen participation.Based on the representative democratic system of citizen participation as the logicalstarting point, explains the connotation of the representative democracy and the basicconcept, study in a representative democracy of citizens to participate in the use ofcharacteristics of representative democracy, through research on the local, points out theexisting problems and citizen participation in the reference, and to Mengcun HuiAutonomous County carries on the questionnaire survey way, find out the citizenparticipation in the existing problems and the causes of the problems, the most around theproblems put forward perfect representative Countermeasures of citizen participation indemocracy system. One, insist on the sovereignty of the people; two, establish nationalinterests; three, pay attention to civic education; four, improve the representative subjectpolitical occupation skill.