The grassroots democracy in rural China, that is, the village self- govermance and village elections, has attracted both widespread attention as well as criticism from the world in recent years. Most agree, however, that the grassroots democracy in rural China has symbolized an important beginning for China's democracy and is an important step in the rationalization of China's political order. However, the current discussion of the grassroots democracy in rural China mainly focuses on political aspects. There has not been much effort dedicated to probing the relationship between China's grassroots democracy and rural economic development. This paper tries to bring this understudied relationship into analytical focus. It aims at analyzing how grassroots democracy in rural China develops under the impact of rural economic development. In this paper, two economic factors in rural China are introduced as the economic motivations of the political actors in the grassroots demoncracy in rural China. The first is the "degree of economic development" (poor vs. rich) of a village, and the second is the dominant "forms of economic ownership" in a village. The paper then introduces an addition two concepts to construct a typology for the village election. These two concepts are "the mediating village power bloc" and the "collectivity of village economy". These two concepts are the elements used to construct typologies for "ownership" and, especially, for "village elections." The six types that we derive from these two constructing concepts are the main analytical result of this paper. This typology provides a framework to analyze the future dynamics between economic factors and political results in China's rural grassroots democracy. The second half of this paper reverses the causal relation of the analysis. It treats the grassroots democracy in rural China as the cause, and then analyzes the resulting economic effects, such as the distribution of economic public goods in the rural community. In the conclusion, the paper brings the village elections back to a broader context of discussion, that is, the "state-society relationship ," and discusses several theoretical implications of the grassroots democracy of rural China.