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,创造自己的幸福生活,是社会主义民主最广泛的实践。早在1988年,当阳市部分农村就开始实行村民代表议事会。1992年年初,当阳市人大常委会向市委提出"关于建立村民代表议事会制度 It is the most extensive practice of socialist democracy to expand grassroots democracy, ensure that the people directly exercise their democratic rights, manage their own affairs according to law and create their own happy life. As early as 1988, some villagers in Dangyang started to implement the council of villagers’ representatives. At the beginning of 1992, when the Standing Committee of the Dangyang Municipal People’s Congress proposed to the municipal party committee the establishment of the system of the assembly of villagers’ representatives