article 1 these measures are formulated in accordance with the organic law of villagers' committees of the people's Republic of China and the actual situation of this province in order to ensure villagers' autonomy according to law, develop rural grass-roots democracy and safeguard villagers' legitimate rights and interests. Article 2 A villagers' committee consists of three to seven members, namely, the chairman, deputy directors and members. The term of office of villagers' committees is five years. The election of villagers' committees shall be carried out in accordance with the Measures for the Election of Villagers' Committees in Gansu Province. Article 3 The main duties of a villagers' committee are:

(1) To formulate and implement the development plan of the village;

(2) support and organize villagers to develop cooperative economy and other economies according to law, undertake the service and coordination of production in their villages, support service, public welfare and mutual assistance social organizations to carry out activities according to law, and promote the construction of rural communities;

(3) Respect the autonomy of collective economic organizations to independently carry out economic activities according to law, maintain a two-tier management system based on household contract management and combining unified management with separate management, and safeguard the legitimate property rights and other rights and interests of collective economic organizations and villagers, contracted business households, joint households or partnership operators;

(4) manage the land and other property collectively owned by the village according to law;

(5) guide villagers to make rational use of natural resources and protect and improve the ecological environment;

(6) publicize the Constitution, laws, regulations and national policies, educate villagers to fulfill their legal obligations, handle public affairs and public welfare undertakings in the village, and maintain and manage public facilities in the village;

(7) develop culture and education, popularize scientific and technological knowledge, mediate civil disputes, help maintain social order, and carry out various forms of socialist spiritual civilization construction. Safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of villagers, educate and guide villagers in multi-ethnic villages to respect and help each other, and promote unity and mutual assistance between villages;

(8) organizing the implementation of the villagers' autonomy charter and village rules and regulations, and implementing the decisions and resolutions made by villagers' meetings and villagers' representative meetings;

(9) assist the township (town) people's governments in their work and reflect their opinions and suggestions to the state organs. Article 4 The villagers' committee shall fully promote democracy, listen carefully to the different opinions of villagers, implement the democratic decision-making mechanism that the minority is subordinate to the majority and the working principle of openness and transparency, and establish and improve various management systems such as financial management, economic management and village affairs publicity. Article 5 A villagers' committee shall be responsible to the villagers' meeting and the villagers' representative meeting and shall report its work to the villagers' meeting or the villagers' representative meeting every year. Article 6 Villagers' meetings shall be convened by villagers' committees and held at least once a year. If more than one tenth of the villagers or more than one third of the villagers' representatives propose to convene a villagers' meeting, the villagers' committee shall convene a villagers' meeting. When a villagers' meeting is convened, the villagers shall be notified ten days in advance and the contents of the proceedings shall be announced.

a villagers' meeting shall be held with the participation of more than half of the villagers over the age of 18, or representatives of more than two thirds of the households in the village, and the decisions made by the villagers' meeting shall be agreed by more than half of the participants. Article 7 The villagers' meeting shall exercise the following functions and powers:

(1) To formulate and amend the villagers' autonomy regulations and village rules and regulations;

(2) discuss and decide the development plan and annual plan of the village;

(3) to review the annual work report and financial revenue and expenditure of the villagers' committee and comment on the work of the members of the villagers' committee;

(4) to elect and recall members of villagers' committees;

(5) Revoking or changing inappropriate decisions of villagers' committees and villagers' representative meetings;

(6) to discuss and decide on other major issues involving the interests of villagers. Article 8 The following matters concerning the interests of villagers can only be handled after discussion and decision by the villagers' meeting:

(1) The personnel who enjoy the allowance for lost work in the village and the subsidy standard;

(2) the use of the income from the village collective economy;

(3) the establishment of public welfare undertakings in the village, the fund-raising and labor-raising plan and the construction contract plan;

(4) land contract management plan;

(5) the project establishment and contracting scheme of village collective economic projects;

(6) the use plan of the homestead;

(7) the use and distribution plan of land acquisition compensation;

(8) Dispose of village collective property by borrowing, leasing or other means;

(9) Other matters involving the interests of villagers that the villagers' meeting considers should be discussed and decided by the villagers' meeting.

the villagers' meeting may authorize the villagers' representative meeting to discuss and decide the matters specified in the preceding paragraph. Ninth villages with a large number of people or scattered residence can set up a villagers' representative meeting to discuss and decide on matters authorized by the villagers' meeting. The villagers' representative meeting consists of villagers' representatives and members of villagers' committees.

the villagers' representatives shall be selected by the villagers from every five to fifteen households, or selected by villagers' groups. Villagers' representatives shall account for more than four-fifths of the members of the villagers' representative meeting, and women villagers' representatives shall account for more than one-third of the members of the villagers' representative meeting. Article 11 The villagers' representative meeting shall be convened by the villagers' committee. The villagers' representative meeting shall be held once every quarter. If more than one fifth of the villagers' representatives propose to convene the villagers' representative meeting, the villagers' committee shall convene the villagers' representative meeting.

the villagers' representative meeting can only be held when more than two thirds of the members attend, and the decisions made shall be agreed by more than half of the participants, and shall not conflict with the decisions of the villagers' meeting.