Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu urged to further promote transparent and democratic village administration in a national television and telephone conference Tuesday.

Hui, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said promoting the work in this field is intended to safeguard the fundamental interests of farmers and to implement the important thought of "Three Represents".

He called on further enhancing transparent and democratic village administration through building a sound mechanism, giving full play to the leadership role of grass-root Party organizations and involving more villagers in the process.

The important thought of "Three Represents", a long-term guiding ideology of the CPC, calls for the Party to always represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese people.

The general offices of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued a circular in 1998 urging spreading transparent and democratic village administration to all areas of the country.

Government sources said that by June of 2003, 95 percent of China's 680,000 villages had reached the standards of transparent and democratic village administration. Among them, more than 60 percent had adopted relatively standard mechanisms.

(Xinhua News Agency September 3, 2003)