Organic Law of the Villagers Committees of the People's Republic of China.

This Law has been formulated pursuant to the Constitution, aiming to ensure the self-government by villagers in the countryside so that they can administer their own affairs by law, develop grassroots democracy in the countryside, protect the legitimate rights and interests of villagers and facilitate the building of a socialist new countryside. The Law consist of 41 Articles divided into 6 Chapters: General Provisions; Composition and Duties of the Villagers' Committees; Election of the Villagers' Committees; Villagers' Assembly and Villagers' Representatives Assembly; Democratic Management and Democratic Supervision; Supplementary Provisions.
A villagers' committee shall manage the public affairs and public welfare undertakings of the village, mediate disputes among villagers, help maintain the public order, and convey villagers' opinions and demands and make suggestions to the people's government. A villagers' committee shall be responsible and report to the villagers' assembly or the villagers' representatives' assembly (art.2). The establishment or dissolution of a villagers' committee or a readjustment in the area governed by it shall be proposed by the people's government of a township, a minority ethnic township or a town and submitted to the people's government at the county level for approval after it is discussed and approved by the villagers' assembly (art.3). The people's government of a township, a minority ethnic township or a town shall guide, support and help villagers' committees in their work, but may not interfere with the affairs that lawfully fall within the scope of self-government by villagers (art.5). Article 24 provide for the matters which involve the interests of the villagers, and are subject to the villagers assembly’s decision through discussion, including: use of the profits gained by the collective economic organizations; proposals for the use of house sites; plans for contracted land management; etc.