Chinese democracy in action: a village bench meeting shapes national law

By Wei Zhezhe, Liu Botong, People’s Daily In a modest corner of Jiangmen, south China’s Guangdong province, residents of Weidong village are experiencing firsthand a form of democracy that starts at the grassroots level and reverberates all the way to Beijing. Wu Tengxin, a local villager who relies on a scooter for daily mobility after…