Mobility Of Modern Peasant Stratum Of China And Their Political Participation

China is an agricultural country and more than 80% population are peasants; therefore peasants have significant importance in China. Deng Xiaoping has ever said no rural development, no urban development. So political development and democratic improvement in the countryside influence the whole country's advancement. To develop democratic polity in China needs peasants'active participation. In this case, to study peasants'political participation has crucial significance.As the development and advancement of China, especially 20 years'reform and open policy, Chinese society obviously changed. Mobility of strata in China brought complicated influence upon political participation. Therefore to study the relation between mobility of strata and political participation is really helpful for improving political participation, advancing democracy and forming reasonable structure of strata.To show the real existing state of every group in Chinese society with definition"Class"can't be comprehensive and deep. So I use definition"Stratum"in my paper. I try to discuss peasants'political participation with characteristics of stratum change. General conditions, features, problems and strategies of peasants'political participation will be discussed in the paper.There are five parts of my paper:Part I: Background of theory.In this part, I mainly discuss the relation between mobility of strata and political participation. The two definitions are historical and idiographic ones and both have characteristic of benefit distribution. In today's China, change of strata deeply influences political participation: firstly, form of participation changed from political involvement to active participation; secondly, different economic status influences participation; thirdly, mobility of strata demands improving political systems.Choosing peasants as key group to analyze has the following meanings: firstly, peasants'political participation is helpful for making and carrying out policies in the countryside. Secondly, peasants'political participation gives chances to improve political ability of peasants. Thirdly, peasants'political participation is a kind of powerful supervision to the rural leaders. Fourthly, peasants'political participation makes contributions to rural economy and provides economic support for democratic polity. Lastly, peasants'political participation stands the key position in the course of construction of democratic polity.Part II: Mobility of modern peasant stratum of ChinaStrata structure changed dramatically since Chinese reform. In the process from planed economy to market economy, administrative standards such as registered permanent residence and administrative documents have been taken place of by new factors such as careers, incomes and capitals, which make classification of strata obvious. There are mainly ten strata in Chinese society: government officials, managers, employers, professional staff, office staff, self-employed labors, business staff, workers, farmers and unemployed group.Peasants group also changed, three strata formed: upper stratum: employers in private companies and rural companies and rural administrators; middle stratum: self-employed labors, rural intelligent labors, employees and peasant workers; lower stratum: farmers.Part III: Real state and existing problems of peasants'political participation.I choose the typical group as key target to analyze in every peasant stratum: political participation of farmers, political participation of peasant workers and political participation of employers in private companies and rural companies. I mainly analyze the states, characteristics and problems of their political participation.Part IV: Strategies to improve peasants'political participation.I try to find out strategies to solve the problems mentioned above and use the method of integrative analysis.The strategies are as follows: develop rural economy and create good political environment; improve political system and develop administrators'quality; improve legal system and revise improper laws; use medium to impress and teach peasants and finally develop education in rural area. Part V: Future view for peasants'political participation in China.China has changed a lot since reform. Strata mobility is the product from planed economy to market economy. Classification of strata is an objective and unchangeable reality. This situation influences the whole country and also the peasants'group.I make a general future view for the political participation of peasants: firstly, lower stratum in peasants group: they has least chances to change their life, it will take a long time to improve their political participation, which is a tough task; secondly, middle stratum: they are keep out of the system, they have indefinite factors and future for political participation; lastly, upper stratum: they come from the lower stratum, but they are independent and intelligent, they have largest potential of political participation.