中文摘要：

一个国家选择什么样的政治发展道路，不仅关系其民主政治建设的走向，而且关系其经济社会的发展和国家政权的稳固。中国政治发展道路坚持了中国特色社会主义理论体系这一指导思想，坚持党的领导这一基本原则，坚持“党的领导、人民当家作主和依法治国有机统一”的基本方针，开辟了选举民主和协商民主这两种新的形式，实行依法治国与以德治国相结合来建设法治国家的治国方略，以此建构起了中国特色政治发展道路的制度框架，为中国政治文明的健康发展指出了正确方向。

英文摘要：

The political development road that a country chooses concerns the trend of democratic and political construction and the economic and social development, as well as the stability of state power. Chinese political development road insists on the guideline of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the basic principle of leadership of the Party, and the fundamental policy of ＂unity of the leadership of the Party, that the people are the masters, and ruling the country by law＂. It created the new forms of election democracy and consultation democracy, implemented the policy of combing ruling the country by law with ruling the country by morality to construct the country ruled by law, and thus established the institutional frame of the political development road with Chinese characteristics, pointing out the correct direction for the healthy development of Chinese political civilization.