改革人民公社体制、建立乡人民政府是新时期一项具有深远意义的改革。1979年到1988年,我在民政部民政司先后担任科员、副处长和副司长,参与全国基层政权和基层组织的建设工作,亲身经历了这项改革。其间,1981年10月,我随程子华部长、崔乃夫副部长到四川调研,对新时期第一个乡人民政府即广汉县向阳乡政府建立前 Reforming the people’s commune system and establishing the township people’s government are a far-reaching reform in the new era. From 1979 to 1988, I worked as civil servant, deputy director and deputy director of civil affairs department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs successively in the construction work of grass-roots political power and grass-roots organizations across the country and personally experienced the reform. In the meantime, in October 1981, I went to Sichuan to study with Minister Cheng Zikhua and Vice Cui Naifu, and before the founding of the government of the first township people’s government in the new era, that of the Xiangyang Township in Guanghan County