Study on the Modern Transformation of Village Regulations and Non-governmental Agreements: From the Perspective of Rural Governance Ruled by Law

摘要

Village regulations and non-governmental agreements are public contracts in rural social governance, are local governance rules to maintain grassroots level stability, and are the basic code of conduct of residents in administrative villages. They, to a certain extent, make up the gap in state administration, alleviate the conflict between national laws and rural local rules, and are important carriers for orderly governance of villages under the rural political system. Under the current rural grassroots governance, village regulations and non-governmental agreements still have a long way to go in order to meet the requirements of modern rural governance and have not fully performed the governance function because: firstly, some individual terms in village regulations and non-governmental agreements run into conflicts with the national mainstream governance rules; secondly, the rights of villagers are not protected in the development of village regulations and non-governmental agreements; thirdly, resistance often makes village regulations or non-governmental agreements unenforceable. Village regulations and non-governmental agreements should, first of all, be regulated in order to achieve modern transformation by improving the basic quality of developers, strengthening the guidance of grassroots governments on the development of village regulations and non-governmental agreements, intensifying the filing and review management of village regulations and non-governmental agreements with township governments, and accelerating the integration of village regulations and non-governmental agreements with national laws.