村民自治,是村民通过村民自治组织依法办理与村民利益相关的事务,实现村民的自我管理、自我教育、自我服务,从而实现民主选举、民主决策、民主管理、民主监督的社会政治制度。在社会主义民主政治体制改革不断深化的背景下,自1998年《中华 Villagers’ autonomy is a social and political system in which villagers realize the democratic election, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision through the villagers’ self-government organizing the affairs related to the interests of villagers in accordance with the law and realizing the villagers’ self-management, self-education and self-service. In the context of deepening socialist democratic political system reform, since 1998, "China