Strong Elites Strengthening Villages and the Practical Logic of Selecting the Best and Matching the Strong to Strengthen Villages and Enrich the People:A Case Study on the Construction of Rural Talent Team in Zhejiang's Green Rural Revival Program
The construction of rural talent team is an important support to effectively promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.This paper uses the rooted theory and the longitudinal multi-case study method to explore how to promote the revitalization of talents by selecting the best and matching the strong elites,thus achieve the progressive effect of strengthening villages and enriching people in the practice of Zhejiang's Green Rural Revival Program for 20 years.The study finds that the three-stage practice of the Green Rural Revival Program for 20 years is mainly to select the best rural talents and achieve"strong elites Strengthening Villages"in three stages.Based on the grounded theory and"process-event analysis,"this paper puts forward the following explanatory framework.(1)In the stage of"a thousand villages as demonstration and ten thousand villages with renovation",the government starts the Green Rural Revival Program and breaks the bottleneck of"who to strengthen the villages"by selecting the best and matching the elites.(2)In the stage of"a thousand villages of high quality and ten thousand villages being beautiful",the leaders explore the path of"how to strengthen the villages"through village management and entrepreneurial thinking.(3)In the stage of"a thousand of villages of future and ten thousand villages with common prosperity",the village collectives realize the cultivation of public land through the construction of business forms,and answer the question of"for whom to strengthen the villages".The practical logic of"Strong elites Strengthening Villages"shows that the premise is for the government to"bring back"the talented people in the villages,the key is for the talented people to"make a difference"in the village management,and the result is that the village collectives attach importance to the cultivation of industrial public land.Therefore,from the perspective of village elites,this paper puts forward the"Strong Elites Strengthening Villages"theory and discusses three competing explanations:the theory of rural elites,the theory of village management,and the theory of empowerment,which provide a new explanation of"absorption-empowerment"of elite reproduction for the practice of Green Rural Revival Program for 20 years.It further set up a standard of"a thousand villages leading and ten thousand villages revitalizing"to promote the Green Rural Revival Program in the country,and provides policy implications that strong villages educate people first,rich people need strong villages,and strong villages will eventually enrich people.
Green Rural Revival ProgramRural RevitalizationTalent RevitalizationCommon ProsperityRural Elite