Cross-Level Coordination and Precise Resource Downward Allocation: The Practice Logic of "Government-Led, Town-Village Linkage" Assistance Mechanism in Rural Revitalization

A case study of Qingyuan City

Abstract

In the macro context of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and the in-depth implementation of the "High-quality Development Project for Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns, and Tens of Thousands of Villages" (hereinafter referred to as the "Hundreds, Thousands, and Ten Thousands Project") in Guangdong Province, underdeveloped areas face a dual dilemma: the "fragmentation" of external assistance resources and the "weakness" of internal grassroots undertaking capabilities. How to break the departmental segmentation of the bureaucratic system and achieve the precise transformation of policy resources from "suspension" to "implementation" is a core issue in the modernization of county-level governance. The "Government-Led, Town-Village Linkage" assistance model explored by Qingyuan City provides a highly explanatory observation sample for understanding cross-level collaborative governance and precise resource downward allocation. Based on the theoretical perspectives of holistic governance and organizational sociology, this study constructs an analytical framework of "Structure-Process-Mechanism" to deeply analyze the operational mechanism of this model. The study finds that the model reshapes the power structure of resource allocation through the vertical administrative coordination of "Government Leadership," integrating dispersed departmental resources into "policy potential energy." Simultaneously, through the horizontal organizational reshaping of "Town-Village Linkage," it constructs an interest community of "Strong Towns Leading Villages," activating the endogenous undertaking carriers at the grassroots level. Under the political logic of Party building guidance, these two aspects form a closed-loop practice logic of "Administrative Empowerment-Organizational Absorption-Interest Linkage," effectively resolving the "last mile" obstruction in resource implementation and realizing an endogenous transformation from "blood-transfusion" assistance to "hematopoietic" development. The article further points out that to establish the long-term effectiveness of this mechanism, it is necessary to be wary of "mobilization fatigue" under administrative dominance, promote the shift of governance focus from one-way administrative intervention to two-way pluralistic co-governance, and deepen the market-oriented reform of the collective economy of towns and villages to achieve the sustainable release of assistance efficiency.