Hou Lejia inserted his hands into his pockets and arrived in front of the village committee office of Yuguang Village, waiting for someone while surveying the small Yuguang Village.
In order to maintain secrecy, they hadn't made prior contact with the locals but had simply brought along someone from the township police station and would call for people on-site.
The unit known as the village group is now rarely mentioned. It effectively corresponds to the former production team, usually a natural village or a settlement known by names like tun or zhuang.
The nationally recognized units are administrative villages, underneath which there are several natural villages. In the past, an administrative village was a production brigade, and a natural village was a production team; the leader of the brigade often held significant power.
