Xi stresses modernizing agriculture and countryside, boosting rural vitalization

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged carrying forward the momentum of poverty elimination to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and promote the rural vitalization in an all-round way.

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Democracy: an end or a means?

"Most of the great democratic theorists in the West, from Montesquieu to Schumpeter, do not agree developing democracy for the democracy's sake, and they believe that democracy is a procedure, an institutional arrangement and a game rule, characterized by 'limited participation' rather than 'unlimited participation'".

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