Abstract
Recognizing, safeguarding and continuously increasing the people’s rights are the basic contents of democracy. But in the concept of democracy in China, rights are not absolute, sacred and abstract. In the view of the Chinese people, rights can be acquired, realized and objectified constantly in the process of social development and historical progress. The realization and development of rights is a difficult, long and complex systematic engineering. The gradual development of the rights of the Chinese people is one of the basic strategies for the development of democratic politics in contemporary China.
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Fang, N. (2015). China’s Democratic Development Strategy: A Gradual Increase of the People’s Rights. In: China’s Democracy Path. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47343-6_6
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