Centennial Rural Governance of the Communist Party of China: Course, Experience and Enlightenment

According to the mode and method adopted by the Communist Party of China (the CPC)in rural governance, Centennial rural governance has roughly experienced four historical periods since the founding of the CPC: the revolutionary mobilization period of “the party goes to the countryside” , the people’ s commune period of “the unity of government and society” , the villagers’ self-governance period of “the separation of government and society” , and the “three integrated rules of goverance” period of “the cooperation of government and society” . Its basic experience can be summarized as follows: to promote rural stability and development as the governance goal, to safeguard the fundamental interests of farmers as the governance concept, the CPC always the core of leadership, improveing the rural governance model keep pace with the times, strengthening the construction of regulations and laws as the rural governance means. The CPC should strengthen the construction of rural grassroots party organizations to consolidate the party’ s leading position in rural revitalization, promote the modernization of rural governance in the process of national governance modernization, and form a new governance pattern of “co-construction, co-governance and sharing” by stimulating the vitality of multiple subjects, so as to build a harmonious and orderly good governance of rural areas in the new era.