1978年12月，当安徽省凤阳县小岗村的20户农民代表在实行大包干的文书上摁手印的时候，既启动了农村经济体制改革的进程，也启动了新时期农村基层民主制度建设的进程。改革20年来，农村基层民主制度建设经历了风风雨雨，日臻完善，在农村的改革与发展中发挥越来越大的作用。建 In December 1978, when 20 peasant representatives from Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, started handprinting with the instruments of large-scale contracts, they not only started the process of rural economic reform but also started the rural grass-roots democracy in the new era The process of construction. Over the past 20 years of reform, the building of grassroots democracy in rural areas has undergone ups and downs and is getting better and better, playing an increasingly important role in the reform and development of rural areas. build