Basic characteristics of traditional rural governance

There are four characteristics of "township governance and village governance": ① Great changes have taken place in rural relations. Under the new rural governance system, the legal relationship between villages and towns is "guiding relationship", and villages and towns, as national rural grass-roots political power, are governed by law; Villagers' committees, as villagers' autonomous organizations, are autonomous according to law; (2) The state power is withdrawn from the village level and returned to the township level, and the village level is no longer the state administrative unit. However, on the one hand, village-level organizations should implement villagers' autonomy, on the other hand, they should also complete the public tasks assigned by township governments; (3) In the rural governance model, rural administration is backed by state compulsion and has certain centralization; The principle of village governance is backed by village rules and regulations and villagers' public opinion, which is highly autonomous and democratic; ④ In the content of rural governance, the core tasks of rural cadres are to collect agricultural taxes and fees and implement the family planning policy.