Xi Jinping's The Governance of China, Volume Four: from a Western viewpoint

One of the greatest strengths in Xi's thought is how he combines the wisdom and depth of experience of China, going back millennia, with the Marxist ideas that developed in the West under the impact of modernity. This is a dynamic view of the relation of ideas to reality, schooled in an understanding of the past, and then applied with the message that Marxism itself has to keep up to date with the changing times.

He states emphatically that democracy is a "shared human value and an ideal that has always been cherished by the CPC and the Chinese people."

There is no one system and every country must develop the institutions that match its history and culture.

In the case of China, Xi points to five basic principles upheld by the Communist Party of China: that people's democracy is the lifeblood of socialism; that the people run the country; that Chinese socialism conforms to national conditions; that by means of elections and voting all sectors of society arrive at a consensus; leveraging the strengths of socialist democracy safeguards Party and country's prosperity and long term stability.