This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). As an organization tasked with maintaining a united front, fostering multiparty cooperation and political consultation, and being a prominent medium through which people's democracy is practiced, the CPPCC is an important channel and specialized body for socialist consultative democracy and an important part of China's state governance system. It is an institution with Chinese characteristics.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, has called for further giving full play to the salient political advantage of the CPPCC in developing whole-process people's democracy.

Here are some of his key quotes on the system.