编者按扩大基层民主，保证人民群众直接行使民主权利，依法管理自己的事情，是社会主义民主最广泛的实践。党和国家一直在大力推行的村务公开、厂务公开和政务公开，就是扩大基层民主的重要之举，在某种意义上说，也是政治体制改革的一项内容。我们刊发这组稿件，目的是想... It is the most extensive practice of socialist democracy to expand the grassroots democracy, ensure that the people directly exercise their democratic rights and manage their own affairs in accordance with the law. The openness of village affairs and the openness of factory affairs and government affairs that the party and the state have been vigorously implementing are the important actions to expand grassroots democracy and in a sense are also part of the political structural reform. We publish this set of manuscripts for the purpose of ...