Green uprising" and "urban breakthrough": a comparison between the Chinese urban community autonomy and villagers' autonomy

With the emergence of the villager's autonomy system, the urban community autonomy has made a breakthrough, which has become a most fundamental and dynamic ingredient of the reforms in the Chinese political system and democratization. The two forms of autonomy shares a succession in time, a homogeneity in contents, a reference in forms, and an interaction in consequences. However, with differences in background and environment, the two forms of autonomy may be discriminated by the respective features in the background of institutional evolution, organizational structure and operational system, and the developmental tendency. In general, villagers' autonomy is strongly motivated with a tense outer environment, while urban community autonomy is weakly motivated with a lax outer environment.