The villagers' board of supervisors can effectively strengthen democratic supervision

(agricultural Wealth Network) Jiaoling County discipline Inspection Commission in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, tried out the "village affairs supervisory board" system in Fangxin village of the county in 2007, and tried out the villagers' convening group system the following year, coupled with villagers' meetings and villagers' representative meetings, gradually formed a pattern of checks and balances of power at the village level.

The village-level power balance pattern established by the Jiaoling County discipline Inspection Commission in Fangxin Village is composed of the village affairs supervisory board, the villagers' convening group, the villagers' Congress and the villagers' meeting. The board of supervisors consists of five supervisors, composed of the "three elders" of the village, that is, veteran cadres, models and party members, which are democratically recommended by the meeting of villagers' representatives, corresponding to the five natural villages of the village. mainly responsible for the supervision of village committees and village cadres The villagers' convening group is also composed of five members, elected from all the villagers' representatives, mainly to convene the villagers' meeting or the villagers' Congress, which is equivalent to a permanent body of the villagers' Congress.

According to the provisions of the Organic Law of Village Committees, China implements the system of villagers' autonomy, the core contents of which are democratic election, democratic management, democratic decision-making and democratic supervision. However, as a safeguard, democratic supervision often becomes the weakest and difficult link to give full play to efficiency. It is not uncommon for village officials to lose supervision because of their power, which seriously erodes the credibility of the government. It is easy to elect village officials, but it is difficult to remove them, which is also a difficult problem in the implementation of the Organic Law of Village Committees. The formation of a pattern of power checks and balances is obviously conducive to solving these problems.

There is no doubt that there are many advantages in constructing the pattern of power checks and balances at the village level. First of all, it is conducive to strengthening democratic supervision. In the case that most of the village branch secretaries and village directors are "shoulder to shoulder", the disadvantages of "village head dominance" are obvious, while the lack of supervision at the same level and the lack of supervision at the higher level also exist. A survey conducted by the Jiaoling County discipline Inspection Commission shows that 63% of the villagers believe that "it is impossible for the villagers to supervise the village cadres" because "the villagers are not strong" and "afraid of offending the village cadres." The board of supervisors is different. On the one hand, they have prestige and the villagers trust them; on the other hand, they supervise them with little concern, dare to speak, and are not afraid to offend village cadres. At the same time, it can also solve the problem that the discipline inspection commission at a higher level has limited energy and is out of reach. Secondly, the supervision gate can be moved forward. Although the supervisory board of village affairs has solved the problem of post-supervision, can it prevent the corrupt behavior of village cadres in the decision-making in advance and change "post-supervision" into "prevention in advance"? The task of convening a group is precisely to inform the villagers in advance of the topic of convening a villagers' meeting or a villagers' representative meeting, and extensively collect the opinions of the villagers, so that democratic decisions can be made on all matters in the village. For some corrupt or inactive village cadres, the convening group can also start the recall process. In addition, we will promote the building of anti-corruption at the grass-roots level. In recent years, due to the expropriation of rural land, the increase in infrastructure construction projects, the development of village-level enterprises, various state and local government compensation, and the allocation of poverty alleviation funds, corruption has occurred frequently in a small number of villages, such as cadre interception and embezzlement, which has led to the intensification of contradictions between the cadres and the masses and the increase in petitions by villagers. The construction of the pattern of power checks and balances at the village level is obviously conducive to curbing the occurrence of corruption such as "petty officials and great corruption" and promoting the healthy development of various undertakings in rural areas.

To build a new socialist countryside, we should not only actively develop the rural economy and guide farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich, but also vigorously strengthen the construction of democratic politics. Jiaoling County discipline Inspection Commission in Fangxin Village through the establishment of village affairs supervisory board and villagers to convene a group to build a village-level power check and balance pattern, the significance lies in this. Their practices are worthy of consideration and reference from all over the country.