20世纪90年代开始,湖南省衡阳县20多个乡镇的一些农民,因负担过重和干部作风等问题多次上访县、市、省和中央,并逐渐形成了一支500多人的减负上访骨干队伍,其中被称为“减负代表”或“减负上访代表”的核心人员有80多人。这些“农民利益代言人”依据中央和省政府的有关政策,组织并带领农民对县乡两级政府制定的不符合中央政策和国家法律的土政策进行各种形式的抵制。他们的有组织抗争一直受到县乡政府的压制和打击。中国社会科学院农村发展研究所研究员于建嵘博士对此进行调查后,公开发表了长篇调查报告《农民有组织抗争及其政治风险》。报告发表后,在学术界和政界均产生了巨大影响,报告所研究的衡阳县及彭荣俊等“减负代表”也成为了新闻媒体关注的重点。一年过去了,这里的农民维权抗争活动有了什么样的变化呢?2004年4月上旬,湖南师范大学公共管理学院的几位学生在于建嵘博士的带领下,再次深入湖南衡阳县进行了跟踪调查。在这次调查中,他们发现:迫于各方面的压力,渣江镇新的领导班子改变了前任领导对这类事件的处理方法,将“减负代表”从对立面视为了可对话的对象,主动与他们沟通协商,缓解了矛盾,取得了良好的效果。 Since the 1990s, some peasants in more than 20 towns and villages in Hengyang County of Hunan Province have repeatedly petitioned counties, cities, provinces and central governments for overloading and cadre-style work, and gradually formed a burden-reduction petition of more than 500 people There are more than 80 key personnel in the backbone team, including the “burden reduction representative” or “burden reduction petition representative”. These “spokespersons for peasants’ interests” organized and led peasants to boycott various forms of local policies that are inconsistent with the central government and state laws and formulated by the governments at both county and townships in accordance with the relevant policies of the central and provincial governments. Their organized struggle has been repressed and cracked down by the county and township governments. Researcher Yu Jianrong, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, publicly published a long-term survey report entitled “Organized Resistance of Farmers and Their Political Risk”. The publication of the report has had a tremendous impact on both academics and political circles. The “burden-reduction representatives” such as Hengyang County and Peng Rongjun reported in the report have also become the focus of the news media. A year later, what changes have the peasants’ rights protest activities here? In early April 2004, several students from the School of Public Administration of Hunan Normal University, under the leadership of Dr. Jian Rong, went deep into Hengyang County, Hunan Province again Tracking Survey. In this investigation, they found that under pressure from all quarters, the new leadership team in the town of Jiangjiang has changed the way in which the former leaders handled such incidents by treating the “representative of the burden on the people” as the object of dialogue and the initiative with them Communication and consultation have eased the contradictions and achieved good results.