Why is China, a communist country, conducting democratic elections, and how long has it been doing that?
The Chinese government began direct village elections in 1988 to help maintain social and political order in the context of rapid economic reforms. Today, village elections occur in about 650,000 villages across China, reaching 75 percent of the nation's 1.3 billion people.
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