Since the reforms, the political culture in mainland China, comprising popular political cognitions, political feelings, political evaluations, attitudes towards power and authority, political efficacy etc., has undergone a process of gradually changing. People's consciousness of rights has been strengthened, and their willingness to participate in political affairs has been enhanced. Urban community self-governance and rural villagers' self-governance became parts of Chinese political life. However, it is not a participant civic culture yet. In fact, from subjects to citizens, people need not to wait for maturation of economic conditions, nor cultivation of ideological education, but first and foremost adequate institutional arrangements, which provide and protect the opportunities of carrying forward civic consciousness as well as exercising democratic rights, including not only democratic participation from grassroots to higher levels, but also public life and citizen's rights from election to other fields.