The Three-year Tenure From A Village Cadre Perspective

With the further development of rural economy, culture and society, and the promotion of peasants’ sense of political democracy, people pay more attention to the tenure of villager committee. According to The Organic Law on the Village Committee, the tenure of The village cadres is3years which means the villager committee needs to change the term of office every three years, and the village cadres can be re-elected consecutively. However, when the writer investigated and surveyed in Daiyudian Village Hequ County Shanxi Province, the village officer, Li Jianwei complained that the tenure of village cadres was too short, which aroused the writer’s keen interest. Why the village cadres think the tenure is too short? Is it on earth suitable or not? Should it be longer? How they serve during the three-year tenure? What is the micro-mechanism in the tenure of village committee? These questions demonstrate that in new rural construction, village cadres cannot be relieved to be serve due to the short term.This article analyses, demonstrates and draws a basic conclusion with the method of specific empirical case studies, using the duration of villager cadres as links. In the first year of term, Li got more familiar with the situation of his village through checking accounts and interviewing, which laid a good foundation for future work. In the next year, Li opened his working situation by making a success of people’s livelihood project, developing social culture and economical construction, through which Daiyudian Village had witnessed a huge change while facing the problem that they had too many tasks in a short time.Through this case study of Li as a village officer in three years, this article believes that three-year tenure is not long enough for the new village cadres in some undeveloped areas with strained relationship between cadres and villages and frequent re-elections. Too short tenure will easily causes some problems. First of all, it is not good for the implementation of village planning, especially the long-term ones. They can do limited number of things in such a short term which is bad for the long-term planning. Next, it is not good for the long-term development of village. The ex-officers carries out some measures and makes the village better but when they are relieved, the situation will be stopped, and it makes the situation even worse when the conflicts between cadres and villagers explodes out. Finally, the village cadres will have a heavy mental burden in such a short tenure, which advises to the team construction of village cadres.