THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND GENERATION Z POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN CHINA

Abstract

The leadership of modern China is concerned about creating a system of succession in power from the older generation to the younger, so its experience in the field of youth policy and the co-optation of talented youth into power is valuable and can be partially borrowed by other countries facing similar problems. In political theory, political participation is differentiated into conventional and non-conventional. The authorities of each country are interested in the development of the first direction. But even in a country as ideologically cohesive as China, non-conventional forms of participation cannot be avoided, which is partly facilitated by Internet activity. This article will look at examples of non-conventional participation in the anti-COVID movement in China and the extradition bill in Hong Kong. However, we are more interested in the conventional participation of young people, its causes and the contribution of the CCP and the Chinese political leadership to this form of political activity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the features of the political participation of Chinese youth and the role of the CCP in building youth policy to enhance this participation. This study consists of four sections that allow us to comprehensively consider the stated issues: an analysis of the characteristics of the perception of the CCP by young people, the main forms of youth political participation, the role of digital media to enhance the political participation of Chinese youth, and political participation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. The study uses sources in Chinese and English, which makes it possible to convey important, but inaccessible for objective reasons, information to a wide range of readers. The study was carried out in the theoretical and methodological paradigm of constructivism based on general theoretical methods of analysis and synthesis and the empirical method of case-study.

Keywords:

political participation, Chinese Communist Party, conventional participation, non-conventional participation, Hong Kong, Xi Jinping, digital communication