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China's consultative democracy at the grassroots level
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Houchen Village in east China's Zhejiang Province is undergoing a renewal project to reallocate and redesign its housing land to upgrade villagers' living conditions and ramp up the growth of the rural economy. The villagers have different opinions on the housing land system and compensation policy. Village Cadres visit homes and organize democratic consultation meetings to collect everyone’s views and bring them to the village meetings to discuss, vote and make decisions. What happens in the village of Houchen is actually a very important part of the Chinese democratic system, that is the consultative democracy at the grassroots level. China has explored different forms of democratic consultations based on different levels of decision-making process.

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