Now in China, the village level officials are directly elected by the villages themselves. But as the complex of human nature, there are some problems.
As far as I know, in some place of the rich province, like GuangDong, especially place near to the big city like GuangZhou, it will take a lot of money to elected to a village governor -- someone say it is more than 1 Million Dollars, I don't know. That guy spend so many money to the villagers, of course he want to take more. So when the real estate company comes he will sell the benefit of the fellow villagers to get himself a big fortune.
Now the government want to solve this problem by "College Village Official" that is to encourage village college graduated come back to their hometown to be the official and help to develop their hometown,
Of course anti corrupt is also focus on these fields.
As far as I know, in some place of the rich province, like GuangDong, especially place near to the big city like GuangZhou, it will take a lot of money to elected to a village governor -- someone say it is more than 1 Million Dollars, I don't know. That guy spend so many money to the villagers, of course he want to take more. So when the real estate company comes he will sell the benefit of the fellow villagers to get himself a big fortune.
Now the government want to solve this problem by "College Village Official" that is to encourage village college graduated come back to their hometown to be the official and help to develop their hometown,
Of course anti corrupt is also focus on these fields.