Abstract:

The CPPCC’s democratic supervision function now includes consultative supervision which is an important value in China's socialist supervision system. Research shows that the operative mode of the democratic supervisors appointed by the CPPCC in Zhejiang Province’s Wenling City was consultative supervision which featured sincere communication and mutual cooperation between the subject and object of supervision. This played a unique role in ensuring and improving the quality of public policy implementation. The unique advantages of the breadth, inclusiveness, objectivity, and connectivity of the CPPCC constitute important conditions for the procedural and practical function of consultative supervision. However, due to factors such as unclear positioning of actionable functions and a lack of systematic institutional construction and collaboration among diverse entities, there are still several development problems in practice. At the very least, we need to start improving the mechanisms of publicity, communication, and feedback to further activate the CPPCC’s consultative supervision.

Key words: consultative supervision by the CPPCC, procedural supervision, appointed democratic supervisors