Journal of Applied Sciences1812-56541812-5662Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/jas.2013.3373.3379XueminZhong Liu Yuyong 1220131317Since, the reform and opening up, countryside in Hangzhou,
like the whole country, has carried on the economic system reform, mainly called
the household contract responsibility system, has been carried out, farmers
have become the relatively independent main body of the production and management.
With the development of economy, the increase in peoples
living standards and the acceleration of the information exchange, farmers can
not only be concerned about their material interests, but also pay close attention
to their democratic rights and their requirements to participate in decision-making,
management and monitoring the grass-roots affairs are increasingly strong. In
recent years, townships of Hangzhou district explored the effective way to promote
the villagers autonomy-through
the democratic election, decision-making, management and supervision to realize
the villagers self-management,
self-education and self-service. At last, they achieved remarkable results and
various contradictions of rural areas in transformation period have been digested.
Based on deep investigation in the towns of Hangzhou, the exploration and practice
of grass-roots level democracy in rural areas of Hangzhou are summarized, the
weak village economy, insufficient internal driving force in democracy, elections
and unpublicized village affairs are targeted at and the corresponding measures
are put forward from five aspects so as to promote the healthy development of
grassroots democracy in rural areas of Hangzhou.]]>Yu, J.,20132013Zhu, J. and G. Shao,20126684690Chen, Z., H. Wang, T. Song, B. Rong, Y. Xiang and T. Hong,20116248256Wu, Y.,20082008CDI and SBX,20082008Zhang, S. and S. Peng,200526666