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China urges fair play in village elections
China's central authorities issued a circular here Saturday urging candidates to practice fair play in direct elections of village heads amid complaints of bribery and other dirty tricks to win votes. "The villagers' committee election work in some rural areas is not properly conducted as bribery situation is grave and seriously harms the impartiality of election," said the circular jointly issued by the General Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
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Move to scupper village election cheats
China has unleashed new measures to clean up rural elections and deepen democratic procedures at a grassroots level. A circular, jointly issued by the General Office of the State Council and the General Office of Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, aims to curb the bribery of village voters and officials, with 12 provinces -making up more than a third of the nation's administrative regions - set to go to the polls this year.
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China considers giving migrant workers election rights in cities
China's State Council, or Cabinet, is considering two law amendments that would allow migrant workers to run for election on to their community committees if they lived in the area long enough. The action will require amendments to both the Village Committee Organization Law and the Urban Resident Committee Organization Law, and would strengthen the protection of migrant worker rights.
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The establishment and development of villager autonomy system
Since the reform and opening-up, the household responsibility system was adopted in the countryside, while the people's commune was disassembled then. Villager autonomy became a new pattern of administration in the rural areas. The first Chinese village committee, Guozuo village committee (in Pingnan of Yizhou city, Guangxi Autonomous Region), was elected by its villagers in February, 1980.
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China considers amending election law to give rural people more say
China's parliament is considering amending the election law to give equal representation to rural and urban residents, said a parliament spokesman on March 4, 2008. "Provided the progressing urbanization in China, the present election law needs amending," said Jiang Enzhu, spokesman for the First Session of the National People's Congress (NPC), at a press conference.
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