The residents' committee (), shortened as ''juweihui'' or ''juwei'' in Chinese, also translated as neighborhood committee,
residents' association, residential committee, is a grassroots mass autonomous organization for self-management, self-education and self-service for residents in
Mainland China
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The status of a residents' committee is equivalent to that of a
villagers' committee
The villagers' committee (), shortened as ''cunweihui'' in Chinese, also translated as village committee, is a grassroots mass autonomous organization for self-management, self-education and self-service for villagers in Mainland China. It adopt ...
in the countryside, both of which do not belong to the state organs.
On 23 October 1949, the representatives of the residents of Shangyangshi Street,
Shangcheng District
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Hangzhou
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Zhejiang
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, elected the first residents' committee of the
People's Republic of China
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, the Shangyangshi Street Residents' Committee.
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Villagers' committee
The villagers' committee (), shortened as ''cunweihui'' in Chinese, also translated as village committee, is a grassroots mass autonomous organization for self-management, self-education and self-service for villagers in Mainland China. It adopt ...
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