The Resident College-Graduate Village Officials: State Intervention In Rural Governance

The policy of resident college-graduate village officials is an important measure taken by the State, which is to promote the new rural construction, strengthen the organizational capacity building in rural village and the new rural development. Since the full implementation of this policy from 2008, it has had a very significant impact on village politics, economy, culture, society and other areas in two years. This assay attempts to study the influence and impact on the rural governance and even its future development direction during the implementation and operation of the resident college-graduate village officials policy, which is as an important policy for the nation to strengthen rural governance and promote the new rural construction. All the study is from the perspective of the state construction and rural governance.The analysis set of this assay is Yangji village in the north Jiangsu, which is because the village official policy is implemented and operated relatively early and more completely in Jiangsu Province. Based on the research objection of Yangji village, the contact and association with the village official for some time and various evaluation on the village official from the villagers, this assay analyses the differences between the resident college-graduate village officials and the working force after the State founding. And then started from the two role played by the resident college-graduate village officials in town and village, it focuses on interpreting their positive impact and some nominal and formalism problems in the rural governance, thus predicting the possibilities of the sustainable development and future direction of the resident college-graduate village officials policy.