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The lower tiers vote for the higher tiers, and anyone can join government.
As far as your concern, there's a reason the government in china actually works, vs the US that stagnates for decades.
Only actually qualified people have power. You prove yourself over years. Xi, for example, has a doctorate and decades of proven experience; and that was after winning his external elections.
to compare to to western democracy, you don't vote for prime minister, the people you voted for votes for prime minister. Just add a few layers with publicly auditable and contestable elections.
I'm not saying it doesn't work, there are alot of things I think China does right, and I by no means think these representative republics of the west are anything more than veiled oligarchies, as China is a veiled technocracy. I just don't think its right to call any regime that isn't accountable to its population a democrarcy, I don't think its even right to call republics with infrequent or no referendums a democracy.