A Study on Close Relationship between Cadres andthe Masses at Grass-roots Level in Rural Areas——An empirical study based on questionnaires collected from 10 provinces

Based on the questionnaire survey data from the database of China's "Consultative Democracy and Electoral Democracy", this paper takes the satisfaction of farmers as the evaluation criterion for the close relationship between cadres and the masses. With the help of descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression model, this paper empirically analyses the four dimensions of rural grass-roots cadres' work, namely, convenience degree to the people, service attitude, democratic style, clean and diligent administration, and analyses their respective effect on the formation of the relationship between cadres and the masses. The descriptive statistical analysis shows that residents are most concerned about the corruption of grass-roots cadres, while the regression model shows that whether cadres are diligent or not has the greatest impact on the relationship between cadres and the masses, which shows that the dimension of clean and diligent administration is the key to build a close relationship between cadres and the masses at the grass-roots level in rural areas in the new period.