text: Xi Jinping rejects the importation of liberal democracy to China. In 2013, a CCP memo called Document Number 9 was leaked, which warned against "Western constitutional democracy" along with other Western ideas. During a visit to Europe in 2014, Xi Jinping said that a multi-party system would not work for China. He said China had experimented in the past with various political systems, including multi-party democracy, warning that copying foreign political or development models could be catastrophic because of its unique historical and social conditions. According to Xi, Chinese history after the fall of the Qing dynasty demonstrates that Western political systems do not fit China's national circumstances. Xi states, "China had experimented with constitutional monarchy, imperial restoration, parliamentary politics, multi-partisan arrangement, presidential system, and others. All diverse political forces came unto the historical stage but none of them had successfully offered 'a correct answer' to the question of national salvation."
  Xi has strengthened the CCP's control over the government and in 2018 amended the party and state constitutions to include Xi Jinping Thought, described as the next stage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In that same year, the Chinese government also abolished term limits for the presidency, allowing Xi to rule for life.
  Whole-process people's democracy
  Xi has coined the term whole-process people's democracy (), also called "whole-process democracy" (, ) which he said "put the people as masters" and that in it "all major legislative decisions are made only after democratic deliberations and thorough procedures to ensure sound and democratic decision-making". He said that "whole-process democracy" had four pillars:
  process democracy () and achievement democracy ()
  procedural democracy () and substantive democracy ()
  direct democracy () and indirect democracy ()
  people's democracy () and will of the state ()
  In 2021, in response to the Summit for Democracy held by US president Joe Biden, the State Council of the People's Republic of China released a white paper called China: Democracy That Works which praised China's "whole-process democracy", said that "there are many ways to achieve democracy" and disparaged American democracy as "performative."