村民自治作为基层民主的重要内容,在具体落实的过程中有很大的理论和制度空间,村民中的精英群体可以在村民自治的过程中起到手段性的作用,为广大农民民主意识的培养和民主实践的历练,为基层民主的实现,乃至更高层次的民主的实现和完善起到不可替代的功用。 Villagers ’autonomy, as an important part of grassroots democracy, has great theoretical and institutional space in the process of its concrete implementation. The elite groups of villagers can play a role in the self-government of villagers and serve as a tool for cultivating the majority of peasants’ democratic consciousness And the experience of democratic practice have played an irreplaceable role in the realization of grassroots democracy and the realization and improvement of even higher levels of democracy.