赵紫阳总理最近提出,我国政治体制改革的基本目标是实行高度的社会主义民主,决策的民主化是社会主义民主的基本标志之一,因而也是我国政治体制改革的关键一环。决策民主化的基本条件,首先是政策研究和咨询过程的民主化。人们只有在政策的研制过程中,通过各种不同的研究报告或其他方式,表达各种不同的主张与观点,决策者才能够分析比较,作出正确的抉择或科学的集中。这既要求研究过程的充分民主,也要求咨询渠道的多样化。如果某方面的政策研制权集中在某一部门手中,而且又是这个部门的少数领导人按 Recently, Premier Zhao Ziyang pointed out: The basic goal of our political system reform is to practice a high degree of socialist democracy. The democratization of decision-making is one of the basic signs of socialist democracy. Therefore, it is also a key link in our country’s political system reform. The basic conditions for the democratization of decision-making are, above all, the democratization of the policy research and consultation process. Only in the process of policy development can various opinions and opinions be expressed through various research reports or other means so that policymakers can analyze and make the right choices or concentrate on science. This requires both full democratization of the research process and diversification of the advisory channels. If some aspects of policy development right concentrated in the hands of a particular department, but also a minority of leaders in this sector by