From "Administrative Embeddedness" to "Endogenous Integration": Action Logic and Practical Mechanisms of High-Quality Party Building Leading Rural Revitalization

Based on Field Observations in City Q, Northern Guangdong

Abstract

Against the macro background of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and implementing Guangdong Province's "High-quality Development Project for Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns, and Myriads of Villages" (hereinafter referred to as the "100-1000-10000 Project"), transforming grassroots party organizations from passive executors of administrative tasks into core drivers of endogenous rural development is a critical topic in new era party building research. Currently, some rural grassroots party building efforts exhibit a path dependence on "administrative embeddedness," characterized by the suspension of organizational coverage, the bureaucratization of political functions, and the unidirectionality of service delivery. This leads to a "decoupling" phenomenon between party leadership and rural revitalization. Drawing on the perspective of "embeddedness theory" from economic sociology, this paper utilizes the rural revitalization practices of City Q in Northern Guangdong as a field observation object to deeply analyze the action logic of the transition from "administrative embeddedness" to "endogenous integration." The study finds that this transformation is essentially a process of converting political potential into governance efficacy through the grid-based reshaping of the organizational system, the interest-based reconstruction of industrial chains, and the emotional rebuilding of the governance community. The article further distills a three-dimensional integration mechanism of "structure-function-value": achieving structural integration through the vertical extension of the organizational chain, functional integration through the "Party Building + Industry" model, and value integration through the reshaping of rural public spirit. This mechanism provides theoretical support and empirical reference for overcoming the dilemma of "involution" in grassroots party building and constructing a sustainable path for party building to lead rural revitalization.