What is the role of citizens in china?

Answer 1

Recently, some (very few) local elections have been held in rural China, but the kind of citizen participation we see in democracies is simply not allowed in most of the PRC.

There have been more and more citizen protests in China, which many scholars take as evidence that the Communist government is beginning to open up (democratize). Some examples include rallies by families of victims of the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake, and more recently in the viral anti-censorship campaign 'grass mud horse' on the web. Some scholars, such as Kenneth Lieberthal, have argued that, while the Communists do not allow citizens to participate directly in governement, they Party keeps very close tabs on public opinion, tending to do what the people want, if slowly. Any changes for the people seem to be primarily designed to keep the Communist Party in power.

Answer 2

autocracy