Against the backdrop of high-quality development,multi-agent collaborative governance has evolved into a vital trend in contemporary management fields.Given the multitude of trans-provincial river basins in our nation,the implementation of multi-agent collaborative governance for these basins represents not only an in-evitable choice in adapting to the exigencies of our times but also a crucial pathway for optimizing the strategic gov-ernance framework of these watersheds.Consequently,this study anchored in the tenets of collaborative governance theory and adopting the vantage point of high-quality development,distills four prevailing models of collaborative governance within trans-provincial river basins under this developmental paradigm:the"core-periphery"model,the composite model,the integration model,and the multi-level model.then the paper consolidates the factors influ-encing the collaborative governance models of our nation's trans-provincial river basins,chief among which are the uneven economic development between upstream and downstream regions,the prominence of localism exacerbated by rigid administrative boundaries,inadequate funding,the singularity of compensation mechanisms,and the frag-mentation of governance functions.Grounded in these analyses,the article proceeds to proffer pertinent policy rec-ommendations,aspiring to elevate the collaborative governance of our trans-provincial river basins and thereby fos-ter high-quality development across these vital water systems.
high-quality developmenttrans-provincial river basincollaborative governance