China to carry out reforms for people involvement

Beijing: China will carry out political reforms to allow more involvement of people in decision-making process but will not ape Western-style democracy, President Hu Jintao said on Thursday.
“We must continue to make both active and prudent efforts to carry out the reform of the political structure, and make people’s democracy more extensive, fuller in scope and sounder in practice,” 69-year-old Hu said while addressing 2,270 delegates attending the 18th party Congress, that will end with a transition of power, inside the Great Hall of the People here.
The Communist Party of China has been ruling the nation with an iron-clad grip on power since 1949, when the People’s Republic was founded.