The Role Played By Village Cadres During The Interest Conflict Between Government And Villagers

With the economic construction and the villager's self-government, the interest conflicts between the township-level government and the villagers become more and more frequent and fierce. This article aims to analyze the role played by the village officials during the interest conflict between the government and the villagers. With regard to the behavior of and the role played by village officials, all general studies position them as proxies of the nation and kingpins of the village. But we think that this kind of theory is only a general static and structural analysis and not a situational study in terms of processes. Actually, what features village official's function and behavior possess are determined not only by specific village settings, but also by the special characteristics of villages and the activeness of village cadres to the environment.Thereby, based on a case study of Chen Village in Wuyishan city of Fujian, putting the village officials into special village background and the concrete"processes-events"of conflict, this study first analyzes the impact of a specific village background, which is characterized by highly developed economy but insufficient culture nexus, upon the role and behavior of village heads. And then, it describes that as the subjects of behavior, how the village officials adjust and conciliate the conflict between the local government and the villagers.By analyzing the impact of a specific type of village background upon the behavior of village heads, this study enriches the structural study of the village cadres'roles. Besides, different from general studies which treat village cadres as a negative outcome of the structure, the study emphasizes the active role played by village cadres in adjusting and conciliating the conflict between government and villagers, thus may benefits the practice of conflict solution between local government and peasants.