All values are the city's, as reported by researchers and by the vice-mayor; no source reports values surfaced by villagers. Equity means the urban-rural gap: Wang Haijuan reports a rule that from 2008 every year's new public investment goes mainly to rural areas until services are equalised, and the funds actually flow. Self-determination is the vice-mayor's 'every yuan must be decided by the masses' and Chen Hongtai's 'villagers in charge means their word counts'; it visibly shapes the council design, but Zhuang 2014 reports councils that later slid back into cadre control and the 2019 World Atlas calls Chengdu PB-like because officials choose in the end. Transparency and accountability are built into per-village accounts, public notice before payment, oversight groups and recusal rules (Zhuang, Wang); Chen Yiyuan 2020 shows accountability later tightened into heavy procedure. Deliberative quality is the city's consultative democracy framing (Frenkiel); Zhuang describes heated bargaining in councils, He and Gui argue the arguing is the point, and later observers say the council became a formality. Social stability is a convener value in Frenkiel's reading: councils exist to nip conflicts in the bud and reduce petitions. Party leadership is a stated constraint: the village party secretary convenes the council and the branch screens agendas (Zhuang, Jiang and Huang). The founding regulation was not available, so these are the values as described secondhand.