Abstract: Whole-process people’s democracy embodies profound human rights implications. As a new theoretical paradigm of socialist democracy with Chinese characteristics, it adheres to the value concept of respecting and protecting human rights, which has been consistently upheld by the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government. Whole-process people’s democracy follows the rights discourse of “the people always being present,” ensuring the realization of democracy in its broadest, most genuine, and most effective form. As a scientifically sound and effective new institutional form of socialist democracy, whole-process people’s democracy centers on ensuring that the people are the masters of the country, constructs a comprehensive, extensive, and coordinated national and social governance system, and better safeguards the people’s rights through broad democratic consultations. As a new practical model of socialist democracy in concrete reality, it highlights the people’s principal position in all aspects and stages of national political and social life from the dimensions of ontology, epistemology, and methodology, thereby promoting the people-centered contemporary Chinese outlook on human rights. The realization of its human rights implications hinges on effective legal guarantees. Strengthening the rule of law is key to fully realizing its human rights implications and advancing the comprehensive development of human rights.

Keywords: whole-process people’s democracy · people-centered outlook on human rights · legal guarantees · realization mechanism