Abstract: Document politics is a kind of governance mode of the Communist Party of China, within the framework of the Constitution and law, taking political documents as the core to grasp the direction of national development, implementing the requirements of political documents with specific documents, and turning the document that can stand the test of practice into law. As for its operation, the core embodiment lies in its formation and implementation of political documents. This paper, on the basis of discussing the applicability of political mobilization analysis, taking the report of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China as an example, analyzes the operation of documentary politics by employing the interpretation model of “issue building-identity polymerization”, regards the formation of political documents as the process of “issue building”, mainly including the stages of creation, formation, modification and completion, and takes the implementation of political documents as the process of “identity polymerization” specifically manifested as the realization of the functions of ruling, conversion, and mobilization. Document politics, though bearing reasonability and necessity, i.e. it not only offers a guide to national development, but also imposes the discipline of party power and the restraint of individual will, has certain limitations. In view of this, we still need, in the future, on the one hand, to use political documents to “steer” the country’s development within the framework of the Constitution and law, and on the other hand, to reduce the quantity and improve the quality, of documents, thus providing the Chinese model and Chinese solution for world development.

Key words: political mobilization, topic building, identity polymerization, political documents, document politics, governance of the country, China’s path