Abstract: As an effective form of grass-root democratic autonomy, the current villagers’ self-governance system in rural China was a product of a specific economic era. Since the reform and opening-up, with the transformation of the economic structure, the rural economy has undergone major changes, such as the imbalance of economic development in different rural areas, which led to the unbalanced development of villagers’ self-governance. As a result, the problems of uneven distribution of governance power exist in varying degrees. In order to know how and in what kind of form the self-governing system will sustain and develop, the author, on a basis of the analysis framework of the “power-resources” theory, by making an thorough analysis of the economic development of different villages in China and the practice of village autonomy, put forward four forms of villagers’ self-governance: retrieving governance, distributed governance, corporate governance, and project governance. At the same time, the governance of different villages determines the self-governance performance of villagers. To overcome the dilemma of “practice” of village autonomy, it is necessary to explore the effective realization forms of villagers’ self-governance under different economic conditions.

Key words: different economies, villagers’ self-governance, effective governance, realization forms