Peasants' Ringts And Its Relief

In the present, China is concentrating on building harmonious society and a law-and order nation. Harmonious society is equal society of the people, by the people and for the people, in which no society groups or individuals should be treated unequally. A law-and-order nation is one ruled by law, and by good law, in which law should be the main measure to solve all kinds of social problems.There are about 1.3 billion peasants in China, among whom 1 billion are peasants. As the largest social group in China, peasants have always been important revolutionary and construction powers of China. Therefore, weather peasant issues are properly copped with is critical for the political stability and economic development of the whole society. The key is to aware and relieve peasant rights. In fact, because of historical and realistic reasons, peasant rights have long been ignored and discriminated both in legislative and judicial levels, which make Chinese peasant an inferior social group. As a result, peasants' political, economic and social rights are underdeveloped, which in turn affects the living standard and development of peasants and hinders the building of harmonious society. Consequently, it is urgent for us to relieve peasant rights by means of law. With the help of rights relieve theory in jurisprudence, this thesis introduces in detail the efforts made by the government to relieve peasant rights and tries to discover more effective methods for further improvement.The thesis consists of six chapters. The first chapter analyses the professional and status meanings of peasant implied in the definition of peasant and points out that peasant is an inferior group in China. The second chapter introduces the basic theories and contents of peasant rights. By analyzing the relationship between peasant rights and citizen rights, the author proposes that peasant rights should be given priority consideration. The third chapter is the main part of the thesis. In this chapter, the author expands on the history, the present situation and the characteristics of peasant rights. The forth chapter discusses systematically rights relief theory and rights relief methods. The author proposes all-round relief, that is, legal and non-legal relief methods, in which the former is more important. The fifth chapter shows the deficiencies in relieving peasant rights from the aspects of legislative and judicial levels and calls for further improvement. The sixth chapter puts forward a series of comprehensive and protective measures to safeguard peasants' lawful rights and interests.