A Study On Township-village Relations In New Age

China's village relationship under the autonomy of villagers has become the focus of attention of scholars at home and abroad since rural reform of 1980s. Since the 16th CPC Congress, building new socialist countryside, rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, steady forward of harmonized development in urban and rural areas, agricultural tax exemptions and gradual implement of other preferential agricultural policies initiated by the central government from top to bottom, a number of contradictions and constraints of rural relations in practice have also shown many new changes. Unreasonable mediation of village relationship, not only constrains the effective implementation of township government administrative functions and the healthy development of villager autonomy, and threats to social stability and rural development, but also directly influences the process of building new rural areas and the results of implementation.Two towns (Xinwang,Mianhe) of Nianhua city in Sichuan province are chosenâ‘ , which are quite different from economic development, rural construction, culture, and demographic and geographic environment. From aspects of current situation and substantive changes of relationship between the township government and the village committee since the implementation of building new socialist countryside, a case study on functions of township governments, and tasks of village committees, issues of autonomy of villagers, and understanding of rural relations and new socialist countryside has been carried out by questionnaire and interview survey, access to historical data, literature research, chart analysis, and comparison analysis.It is shown that the focus of village relationship at the new period has shifted because of the building new socialist countryside, as demonstrated by enhanced dependence of the village committee for the township government, not deep enough functions reform of township governments, lack of awareness of the new rural construction, weak capacity for villagers autonomy, and not high enough overall quality of village cadres and so on. The various contradictions between the township governments and village committees are rooted in the current administrative system, the financial system, the relationship between party and government, and the villager autonomy system itself and other reasons. Through investigation and analysis, it can be believed that to improve rural relationship in the new period still needs strong government intervention and promotion for most of the agricultural township in the long-term future. By means of establishing government-led and farmers-participated mode of new countryside construction, deeply promoting functions transformation of township and government, enlarging financial support for building new rural areas, developing non-governmental economic organizations, intensifying the training of villagers and village cadres, strengthening grassroots organizations construction, and playing the role of party's core leadership, desired objectives of new countryside construction can be realized.