Democratic village elections had been conducted as early as in the Yan’an period. It was through village elections that Chinese peasants were fully mobilized and the foundation of the revolutionary success was laid. It also made the villagers’election easy to carry out again. On 1 June 1988, the Organic Law of Villagers´ Committees started to be tried out nationwide. According to this law, villagers can elect director, deputy director and members of a villagers’ committee directly.
     Nowadays, the election system has been popularized in rural areas across the country. Since 1992, the “sea-election” model as such has been widely spread in rural areas nationwide by the central government.
     Meanwhile, a comparatively unified standard of election process was stipulated, the “Regulations for Villagers Committees Election of PRC” was issued, and the flow chart of voting for villagers’committee election was widely used. By the year 1996, the elections in villages had developed in a standard way.
     Elections must be conducted every 3 years, which has become a very important political rule in rural areas in China, and has practically ended the history of limitless term for village officials. The candidates for the director, deputy director and members of the villagers´ committee are elected by open elections. Candidates are decided by voters’open election and there must be two or more candidates running for the director of the villagers´ committee. They must make an open speech on their ideas of running the village.
     Voters have to queen to receive their ballots with the voter’s card, enter into a secret voting booth to fill in their ballots and put into the voting box themselves. Finally, the result of the balloting must be declared to public on the same day of voting.
     The villager’s election system has been carried out in rural area for more than ten years and it exerts an essential impact on the process of democratization of China. The peasants start to have the real “country-owner” sense, and the cadres serve the peasants instead of rulling  them.