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

Taoyu Zou; Jiajun Zhou; Dongjin He

doi:10.54691/fwfy0m36

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

Taoyu Zou, Jiajun Zhou, Dongjin He

Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, (2025), Vol.5, No.12, pp.37-42

Published: December 17, 2025

DOI: 10.54691/fwfy0m36

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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.

Keywords: Rural Revitalization; High-Quality Party Building; Administrative Embeddedness; Endogenous Integration; 100-1000-10000 Project; City Q.

APA Citation: Taoyu Zou, Jiajun Zhou, Dongjin He (2025). From "Administrative Embeddedness" to "Endogenous Integration": Action Logic and Practical Mechanisms of High-Quality Party Building Leading Rural Revitalization. Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(12), 37-42. https://doi.org/10.54691/fwfy0m36

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