我国农村村民委员会,是1983年废除人民公社制度后设置的农村基层群众自治组织。截止到1998年底,全国共有832987个行政村,近360万名村委会干部。从1988年6月1日《村委会组织法》试行至今,全国农村村委会普遍进行了三至四次换届选举。在广泛的民主实践中,农村村委会选举逐步走上规范化、制度化、民主化的轨道,具有中国特色的村委 The rural villagers’ committees in our country are the self-governing rural organizations at the grass-roots level set up after the abolition of the people’s commune system in 1983. By the end of 1998, there were 832,987 administrative villages and nearly 3,600,000 village committee cadres nationwide. Since June 1, 1988, the “Organic Law of the Villagers’ Committee” has been put into trial operation, the general rural village committees have conducted three to four general election. In a wide range of democratic practices, the election of rural village committees gradually took the track of standardization, institutionalization and democratization, and the village committees with Chinese characteristics