2005年冬天,笔者从长沙出发,寻着当年毛泽东的足迹,先后来到湘潭、韶山、湘乡、醴陵、株州的十多个乡(镇)、村,以调查新农村建设为主旨,重走毛泽东湖南农民运动考察之路。在12月1日至10日,走村串乡,通过与乡村干部、群众的接触了解,对农村现状有了新的认识。如今的农村尚离不开“三种人”:在村级行政组织和农民专业经济组织里,离不开有胆有识的“经济能人”;在农村精 In the winter of 2005, starting from Changsha, I searched for the footsteps of Mao Zedong and went to dozens of villages (towns) and villages in Xiangtan, Shaoshan, Xiangxiang, Liling and Zhuzhou successively, Follow the Road of Hunan Peasant Movement Investigation by Mao. From December 1 to December 10, walking around the village and linking with the countryside, we have got a new understanding of the current situation in rural areas through our contacts with rural cadres and the masses. Today’s rural areas are still inseparable from the “three kinds of people”: in the village-level administrative organizations and farmer specialized economic organizations, inseparable from the courageous “economists”; in rural areas