胡锦涛同志在省部级主要领导干部建设社会主义新农村专题研讨班上强调,“加强民主法制建设,保障农民民主权利”,“推进和谐社会建设,保持农村社会稳定”。建设社会主义新农村,必须加强农村法治建设,以法律手段来规范、引导、保障农业和农村持续稳定协调发展,逐步把农村经济、政 Comrade Hu Jintao stressed at the seminar on the construction of a new socialist countryside by leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level that “we will strengthen the building of democracy and the legal system to guarantee the democratic rights of peasants” and “promote the building of a harmonious society so as to maintain social stability in rural areas.” To build a new socialist countryside, we must strengthen the construction of the rule of law in rural areas, standardize and guide and ensure the sustained, steady and coordinated development of agriculture and rural areas by legal means, and gradually bring the rural economy and government