喧天的锣鼓。劲舞的雄狮。涌动的人群。表情各异的面孔。 广西宜州市屏南乡合寨村于6月23日召开第7届村民委员会换届选举大会。 熙熙攘攘的人群中,不时闪现几张令村民们感到陌生的面孔。他们是从北京和一些地方省市专程赶来观摩选举的新闻记者和专家学者。 在中国,没有什么地方能比合寨村的村委会选举更能吸引媒体和专家们的视线了。22年前,一块写有“村民委员会”字样的木牌,赫然出现在这个名不见经传的小村子里。至此,“合寨村”这个名字,在中国民主政治史上,有了与安徽凤阳小岗村同等重大的意义。 中国村民自治的帷幕,由贫穷落后的 Noisy drums and gongs. Dance lion. Surging crowd. Different facial expressions. Pinggu Township, Yizhou City, Guangxi Hezhai Village on June 23 held the seventh session of the village committee general election. From time to time, there are several faces that make the villagers feel unfamiliar. They are journalists and experts and scholars who came to see the election from Beijing and some local provinces and cities. In China, there is nothing more arousing media and expert attention than the village committee election in Hezhai village. Twenty-two years ago, a wooden sign with the words “Villager Committee” appeared impressively in this little-known small village. So far, the name of “Hezhai Village” has the same significance as Xiaogang Village of Fengyang in Anhui Province in the history of Chinese democratic politics. The curtain of the Chinese villagers’ autonomy is made poor and backward