目前,全国农村(不含港澳台地区)有61.3万个村民委员会,466.9万个村民小组。村民自治是广大农民群众在农村基层直接行使民主权利,依法自我管理、自我教育、自我服务,实行民主选举、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督的一项政治制度。《中共中央关于推进农村改革发展若干重大问题的决定》指出,健全村党组织领导的充满活力的村民自治机制,是 At present, there are 613,000 village committees and 4,669,000 village groups in the rural areas (excluding Hong Kong, Maucao and Taiwan). Villagers’ self-government is a political system by which the majority of peasants directly exercise their democratic rights at grassroots level in rural areas, self-manage themselves, educate themselves and serve for themselves according to law and practice democratic election, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision. The Decision of the CPC Central Committee and Central Committee on Several Important Issues Regarding the Promotion of Rural Reform and Development states that the vigorous mechanism of village self-government led by the village party organizations should be improved