| The development of grass-roots democracy has been the most remarkable achievement in China's political reform since the reform and opening-up.Even to some extent,it became one of the starting points of China's political modernization drive. Mass media as a social instrument,it affects in delivering the national policy,interpretation of the agricultural policy, offering channels for expression and so on.Our government requires the radio and television stations should service for the agriculture, farmer and rural area as the main task in the No.1 document for several times,and also propose the mass meida became an important approach for the publicity of village affairs in order to promotting the grass-roots democracy.The government are tying to increase the dynamism of mass media resources configuration for rural areas. Be faced with such a huge media market in rural areas, the media participates in the construction of grass-roots democracy widely and deeply, it is not only the pursuit of the media itself, but also the requirements of government, even more the needs of farmers.There is little specialized research on the relationship of mass media and the grass-roots democracy,so the topic itself is a supplement for the research of mass media and countryside.In the background of new rural construction, the construction of rural grass-roots democracy are also showing the new features. These reform and progress also make demands for the mass media:the communication concept from city based to rural based,the operating mode from self-financing to government supporting,from passive to active.By questionnaire and home visits in some representative areas, author has a more rational understanding of the mass media's current situation in the grass-roots democracy construction in Suzhou:the mass media has play a positive role in transmitting information and explanatting policy.At the same time,farmers' low level of media literacy limits the effect of mass media take part in the rural grass-roots democracy's construction. Mass media's effect in enhancing democratic awareness of farmers and providing channels for expressing discourse needs to be further improved.On this basis, author propose some recommendationgs in how to promote the rural grass-roots democracy,such as raising media literacy of farmers,bring up the sense of democracy,leading the change of concept and supervise the enforcement of democratic policies. Mass media should promote the process of rural grass-roots democracy by promoting the development of rural economic, disseminating new culture,trainning new farmers, etc.The research area I chose is economically developed rural areas of Suzhou, the results obtained are only representative of mass media's status and role in the construction of rural grass-roots democracy in some economically developed areas.The counteraction of the process of grass-roots democracy's construction in rural areas to the mass meida has yet constantly to be explored. |
