Recently , a video has been spread on the Internet pervasively which is named “ Do you know two sessions ?” ( The National Political Congress and the National People ’ s Political Consultative Conference ). A number of unexpected and “ brave ” answers from the people investigated in the video not only catch the eyeballs of netizens but inform us of a nationwide |
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discussion that to what degree do the Chinese people get involved in politics voluntarily . With respect to this question , we have to figure out three major points : the status quo of the participation of Chinese people in politics , how well the election mechanism for the representative works , and the ramifications brought up by the mechanism upon the Chinese people . A middle aged woman in the |
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video expressed her thought that it is too little to generate influences on the policies as an individual . “ I am just an ordinary person , so I can do nothing about it ” The claim that as an individual , we can do little to affect politics is echoed by many other people on the Internet . The survey set up by Tecent ( the Chinese version of Facebook ) indicates 52.32 % of the people attribute the |
ineffectiveness as an individual to the indifference towards politics . Why do many Chinese people think their suggestions do not count ? Actually it leads to the next mechanism issue whether , as a Chinese citizen , our votes count . A old man in the video the disconnection b e t w e e n themselves a n d t h e representative , who is going to
attend the two session and to be on behalf of the people to deliver the problems in
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our region and its possible solutions we proposed to the central government . “ Theoretically , there is a process for us to vote for who should be the representative . But , the officials would give us a name and then we just vote for the person . Usually we even do not know the candidate ’ s name ” The problem above is not an individual case but prevalent
exiting in the society , especially in the rural areas whose population tales
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