Abstract: During the one century's development, the Communist Party of China has gone through a long process of applying consultative governance from the establishment of the regime to the state governance modernization. The Communist Party of China has formed such modes in consultative governance as political parties consultation, political consultation, social consultation and dialogue, etc., and finally become mature and set in the mode of socialist consultation democracy. The development of the consultative governance is the result of the Communist Party of China's deepening understanding of regime building and state governance in its one hundred year development history, which determines that the Communist Party of China occupies a core position in the consultative governance; in turn it gives rise to institutional advantages different from western deliberative democracy. In the context of the downward shift of the governance focus, the Communist Party of China can promote the advantages transformation of the consultative governance by granting more power to the grass-roots governance, and the in-depth integration of information technology and consultative governance may become a new direction for advantage transformation.

Key words: the Communist Party of China, consultative democracy, establishment of regime, transition of state governance, grass-roots governance