扩大基层民主，深化依法治理，是维护当前农村社会稳定，密切干群关系的客观需要。党的十五届三中全会提出了农村基层民主法制建设的基本目标和基本任务：“全面推进村级民主选举、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督，实行村民自治，健全农村社会主义法制。”新修订的《村民委员会 Expanding grassroots democracy and deepening governance by law are objective needs for safeguarding social stability in rural areas and for closer relations between cadres and the masses. The Third Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee proposed the basic objectives and basic tasks of building the grassroots democracy and legal system in rural areas: “We will comprehensively promote village-level democratic election, democratic decision-making, democratic management, democratic supervision, the implementation of villager autonomy and the improvement of the socialist legal system in rural areas.” The newly revised "village committees