White Paper on Political Democracy in China

Published October 19, 2005

This document is the first-ever White Paper on political democracy issued by the Chinese government. It calls for increased political reform but stresses the importance of the ruling Communist Party to remain in power and for China alone to decide the course of its democratic development.

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