2014, the No. 1 document of the Party Central Committee explicitely pointed out that "carrying out pilots on implementing self-governance at village group level by taking the small group of villagers as the basic unit is allowed". This article analyzes the pilot project carried out in Fogang county, Guangdong Province. The author considers moving down the orthocenter of villagers' self-governance to the village group level as a brand new exploration to solve the problem of disconnection between the traditional governance basis and modern sta...