The "Policy Innovation Demonstration Project for Increasing the Proportion of Female Members on Villagers' Committees" (June 2003-June 2004) initiated by the Rural Affairs Department of the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs is now being implemented in Tianjin's Tanggu District. The Project aims to channel gender consciousness into the mainstream of villagers' autonomy, in other words to improve the ways and means for women to participate in government and political affairs along democratic lines through policy drive, coming up with the s...