The leading methods of village cadres can be classified into such three kinds as authoritative type, democratic type and arbitrary type, and villagers’ autonomous management performance can be measured from such four perspectives as economic performance, political performance including democratic management performance and civic participation performance, social performance and supply performance from fair product and service. According to the questionnaire from 16 villages in many provinces, the influence of the leading methods of village cadres on villagers’ autonomous management performance is analyzed, and the results show that authoritative leading method is significantly positively related to social performance and civic participation performance, the democratic leading method is obviously positively related to economic performance, democratic management performance, civic participation performance, social performance and public supply performance, and that the correlation between other variants is not significant. Thus, democratic leading method of village cadres has universal resilience in China’s villagers’ autonomous management, authoritative leading method also has certain resilience but arbitrary leading method is not applicable. Thus, village cadres should agilely use authoritative type or democratic type of leading method but avoid arbitrary leading method.