Under the method of four deliberations and two disclosures, a village decides a major matter in four steps. The Party branch proposes it. The joint meeting of the Party branch committee and the village committee discusses it. The meeting of all Party members reviews it. The last step is the resolution of the meeting of village representatives, or of the whole village. The decision is made public, and so is the result of carrying it out.
The method, siyi liang gongkai (四议两公开), comes from Dengzhou in Henan. It was promoted at a national meeting in Zhengzhou in November 2009, and the Central No. 1 Document of 2010 listed it among the measures for village governance.