On Villagers' Autonomy And The Party's Leadership

The system of the villagers' self-governance is really outstanding in regard to the political development of rural China, or even the whole country. From its birth to the affirmation of its legitimacy, from the "Organic Law on Villagers' Committees of PRC (provisional) in 1987 to its revision as formal law by the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress in 1998, this arrangement has pioneered a successful way for the socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the CPC. through the repetition from practice to knowledge.The history for more than 20 years since the reform and open policy shows that the Villagers' self-governance has laid a solid foundation for Chinese democracy to develop in the process of the reform, economy and social development-i.e. a way to promote democratic politics through the grass-roots democracy, which is not factitious, but is the outcome of the economic and social development. It agrees to the internal logic of the Chinese social development and bears sound realistic basis as well as effective developing terms. It has crucial and profound significance in redeploying the initiative and creativity of hundreds of millions of peasants, promoting the overall progress of the rural economy and society, maintaining the solidification and stability of the society, upholding and improving the leadership of the Party. As far as the depth and scope of its impact, the Villagers' self-governance is a revolution. Though still on the way, its value shall be more and more apparent with time passing by, so precious.This requires the CPC and its government to view and acquaint the Villagers' self-governance at an angle of the gross strategic altitude of the party politics, the state modernization and social development, to construct more perfect, more influential and cohesive organization system and wok system by way of institutional mechanism of the self-governance, to enlarge the social infrastructure for the Party under new historical circumstances, to quest for more agile and resultful mode of the Party's leadership for the purpose of heightening its ability in forming and heading the government.The essay includes three parts, the preface, the text and the concluding remarks. Therein the three main chapters in the text display as follows: Chapter One states that the Villagers' self-governance is the great democratic practice of the people under the leadership of the Party, emphasizing the function of the Party in the process of the grass roots democracy, and singing high praise for its significance in promoting the rapid development of socialist democracy of our country.Chapter Two expounds the impact of the grass-roots democracy imposed on the Party, indicating that the grassroots democratic practice has put forward new task for improving the Party's leadership while yielding positive influence to it.Chapter Three dissertates some possible thoughts and countermeasures in upholding, enforcing and improving the Party's leadership under the circumstances of the Villagers' self-governance, giving a detailed statement that the traditional opinion towards the Party's leadership should be changed with the object of improvement and furthermore offering the main principles to abide by as well as the concrete measures for the improvement.