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The theme of this Report (Blue Book）is political participation at community level in contemporary China，focusing on the most active grass-roots and local political participation in current practice field of developing China’s socialist democracy. And it tries to grasp systematically and comprehensively the innovative exploration and development trend of the present community-level political participation in China.

This Report consists of three parts: general report，special reports and case analysis. The general report section systemically analyzes and expounds the practical exploration and development trend of current China’s community-level political participation，as well as the characteristics and historical development logic of current political participation in China. The special report section analyzes and addresses in many respects the practice development and system innovation in many fields of current community-level political participation. The case analysis section observes and analyzes the features and trends of current political participation based on some cases.

This Report covers the following topics and areas.

First,the current transformation of community governance in China. At present，the main problem that China’s urban and rural communities are faced with is governance transformation. In order to form the cooperative governance structure of multiple participants，the critical path is institutionalization，rule of law and ordering of citizen participation. This report explains these issues and new practices，including the problems and challenges of communities’governance transformation，the problems of political participation in rural community governance，the new development of governance participants in urban communities，the reform of urban management system at the basic level. In the end，it brings forth that political participation is crucial to establish local governance system and structure with multiple participants，which is an important part of modernization of national governance.

Second,playing the role of the system of people’s congresses that is China’s fundamental political system，and better absorbing citizens’orderly participation，has been one of the significant issues of current political participation in China. The report analyzes and explains some important practice of institution innovation and some important forms of participation，such as improving the mechanism for deputies to maintain contact with the people，practical exploration of citizen participation in local people’s Congresses legislation，and so on. Then it is concluded that innovation and practice of the system of people’s congresses is the key to strengthen the institutionalized political participation in China.

Third,new forms of political participation such as network political participation，and new participating groups such as rural migrant workers，have been an essential part of Chinese socialist democracy development. This report has made a full and systematic review and analysis for these fresh forms and groups of political participation. It shows that it is vital to enhance these newly emerged forms and participation of new social groups in accordance with the law，in a systemic way by adopting due standards and procedures. And these are new features and new driving force of political participation in contemporary China.

Fourth,the development and practice of intra-Party democracy and consultative democracy，is a significant part of strengthening institutions development for political participation. Party members actively participate in the internal political activities of Party，and this is important source of creative vitality for the Communist Party of China. It is a system project to promote the implementation of Party members’rights to participate in the internal political activities or affairs of Party，so this is related to many aspects of Party building. Consultative democracy is a modern form of democratic governance and participation. Deliberative democracy may improve quality of legalization and policy，advance legalization of decision-making，and cultivate civic spirit，which at present plays an active role to propel development of China’s socialist democracy.

Fifth,by expounding the changes and typology features of Chinese political participation，as well as surveying democratic system building of political participation in the view of political modernization，we can gain a systematic and tall-round understanding of structural problems faced by current political participation and future development trend of China’s political participation.

This Report has been undertaken and accomplished by Institute of Political Science，Chinese Academy of Social Science. The authors are scholars and experts from Institute of Political Science，Chinese Academy of Social Science，Nanjing University，Renmin University of China，Fudan University，Huazhong Normal University，Nanchang University，Central Compilation and Translation Bureau，and Beijing Administrative College (BAC)，etc.