Retrospect And Reflection On Chinese Rural Grassroots Democracy

The construction of democratic politics is an important part of the greatcareer of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Chinese Communist Party , asthe leadership core has recognized the great power of the people since its verybeginning of founding, who are good at mobilizing the masses’enthusiasm andinitiative and has taken the ideal of "people are the masters" as the purpose of theparty, which is fundamentally different from nationalist party’s "Urban EliteParty". In Revolutionary War, many rural politics made by CPC have reflected ahigh degree of democracy and people participation and explored enormouscreativity and superiority of the democracy. It is the precisely intimate bondbetween the Chinese Communist Party and the people that created a true socialistcountry that are the precise representative of the people.Since the founding of PRC, though with frustrations and repetitions, Chinesedemocratic construction at the basic level has made active exploring. But theexperiences and lessons learnt from the past show that the democracy and theconstitutionality must go hand-by-hand. The democracy without rules is somekind of disorder, whose spreading is bound to threaten to the national and socialstability. The discreet attitude towards democracy in China determines theprogressive path of development of democracy in our country and it has beenproved that this method can resolve problems of disability in the process ofdemocracy. We have made great achievements in the democratic construction at the basic levelThe development of our country’s democratic and political construction isimbalanced and the differences are relatively large differences between urban andrural areas and from regions to regions .To analyze specific issues,the paperchoose Mengzhou,Henan Province as the research object. First, the thesissummarizes the local rural history of democratic politics development: after ashort period of prosperity, our national rural democracy and political constructionused to get frustrated and after the reform and opening policy, CPC and thegovernment began to learn the lessons and start the progressive path. Practiceshave proved a useful attempt of rural grassroots democracy under the leadershipof the party has important achievements and made the rural regions changeincredibly. However, democracy is exotic to us and its development is still on theway and some inevitable problems and conflicts occurred in the practice ofvillagers’ autonomy administration and some of them are serious, for example,means of smear campaign, powerful family manipulating elections, a mereformality of autonomous organizations etc.By analyzing the characteristicsof the villages where these problems and conflicts happened, accordingly thethesis tries to propose some countermeasures and suggestions. Althoughthe level of regional democratic political development varies from region toregion and the problems faced also have different emphases, but theselected object can be said to be a microcosm of the rural democratic politics ofthe basic level and it will be meaningful and valuable to proposesome countermeasures and suggestions by analyzing and studyingthe characteristics of the villages.