Administrative villages, village committees, central villages, natural villages, grass-roots villages and villagers' groups, their respective definitions, differences and connections.

Administrative village refers to the area under the jurisdiction of rural marginal management institutions determined by the government for convenient management. The relationship between the two is that natural villages are generally smaller than administrative villages, which means that several adjacent small villages can form a large administrative village. This administrative village is managed by a leading group (branch and village committee), but several natural villages can be divided into several groups, each with a team leader, and these natural villages are subject to the management and leadership of the administrative village committee and village branch.

Central village is the basic residential unit in rural areas, and it is also the key issue to promote the "three concentrations" in suburbs. Appropriate combination of scattered natural villages and rational allocation of public facilities.

A natural village is a village formed naturally by villagers living together for a long time. Influenced by geographical conditions and lifestyle. For example, at the top of a mountain, several families have lived by the roadside for generations, which may form a small village called a natural village. Administrative villages are areas under the jurisdiction of rural marginal management institutions determined by the government for the convenience of management. The relationship between the two is that natural villages are generally smaller than administrative villages, which means that several adjacent small villages can form a large administrative village. This administrative village is managed by a leading group (branch and village committee), but several natural villages can be divided into several groups, each with a team leader, and these natural villages are subject to the management and leadership of the administrative village committee and village branch.

Natural villages and administrative villages. Natural villages refer to natural settlements in rural areas of China. The natural villages in the northern plain are usually larger, while those in the southern hilly areas are usually smaller. The administrative village is the most basic level in the chinese administrative division system, and it has power institutions such as villagers' committees or village offices. Many local administrative villages and natural villages overlap; In some places, an administrative village includes several to dozens of natural villages; In some places, a natural village is divided into several administrative villages. For example, there are 324 natural villages and 380 administrative villages in Baxian County, Hebei Province, 750 natural villages and 728 administrative villages in Zhaoyuan County, Shandong Province, 2 124 natural villages in Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province, 61/administrative villages, and Fuping County, Hebei Province 1229 natural villages. The ratio of natural villages to administrative villages is 0.85, 65,438+0.03, 3.48 and 6.00 respectively. According to the statistics of 1.986, there were 3.65 million natural villages in China. On the other hand, there were 4.2 million natural villages in the early 1990s,1.In August 1998, Tong, director of the Internal Affairs Office of the Internal Affairs Judicial Committee of the National People's Congress, said. The scale of natural villages varies greatly. The largest village is in lankao county, with 2,720 households and12,337 people. In jiangling county, Hubei Province, there are only 8 households with 33 people in each natural village. The total number of administrative villages is over 700,000, and the population of administrative villages is usually between 7,800 and 45,000. The typical average scale is about 250 households with 65,438+0,000 people. The village mentioned in this article mainly refers to the administrative village. There are two interpretations of village politics here: the broad interpretation refers to the power organization and its activities in the village, and the narrow interpretation refers to the village-level political organization and its activities. The popular saying now is "township government and village governance", and the formulation of village government naturally has different meanings. Since the author is not an official or expert in charge of the construction of rural grass-roots political power, I can only provide some humble opinions. This chapter will briefly review the evolution of village governance in history, criticize rural grass-roots "mass autonomous organizations" from both theoretical and practical aspects, and put forward specific ideas for the repositioning of village committees and the construction of village governance in the future.