Ordinary villagers touch the village scheme at two ends and are represented in the middle. At the start a questionnaire goes to every household, open at first and later with closed options plus space for additions, carried by the village committee and council members; Chen Yiyuan reports a requirement that over 90 percent of villagers fill and sign it, later an 80 percent household-visit rate with photographs, and Cabannes notes that a per-family survey on this scale is rare in PB. At the end, villagers rate the finished projects before the money is released. In between, decisions are taken in the monthly village council, which meets behind closed doors with only the minutes public (Frenkiel), and in sub-group councils that Chen Yiyuan describes (two representatives per sub-group plus the secretary in one village). Information travels by boards, posters, slogan banners, flyers and meetings (Zhuang). There was no digital channel in the village scheme as described; the mobile app and online platform belong to the 2021 experiment in communities, where the field partner estimated that at least 20 percent of eligible residents, over 4 million people, took part through the app, and in-person rates were not recorded.