“协商民主”的概念和理论虽然来源于国外,但是中国的改革实践赋予了这个概念新的内涵,拓展了协商民主理论的广度。近年来,协商民主在中国的实践充分说明了它同中国现实国情和中国政治传统具有良好的契合性。中国特色协商民主的理论问题需要探索,生动的基层协商的实践经验需要总结。我们应该让协商民主为深化改革事业发挥更大的积极作用。协商民主继续健康发展的最有效、最可靠的途径是提升协商民主的法治化水平。 Although the concepts and theories of “consultative democracy” come from abroad, the reform practice in China has given this concept new connotations and broadened the breadth of the consultative democracy theory. In recent years, the practice of deliberative democracy in China has fully demonstrated its good compatibility with China’s current national conditions and the Chinese political tradition. The theoretical issues of deliberative democracy with Chinese characteristics need to be explored. The practical experience of vivid grass-roots consultation needs to be summarized. We should make deliberative democracy play a more active role in deepening the reform. The most effective and reliable way to continue the healthy development of deliberative democracy is to raise the level of the rule of law in deliberative democracy.