Collective Practice And The Logic Of Market:Organization Mechanism Of Rural Construction Project In Hetang Village

“How to organize rural construction projects”,it has been a constant concern in more than 100 years of Chinese rural construction history,it is also an important problem that needs to be solved urgently since the "Rural Revitalization Strategy" has been put forward in China.Over the past 40 years of the reform and opening-up policy,on the one hand,China's rural areas have increasingly become part of the market.In the process of rural construction,the market has been taken as the basic means of resource allocation and the market governance mode of local economy has been developed.On the other hand,it combines the traditional cultural thought of "The harmonious development of family and country" and provides local public services by means of collectivized practice relying on rural construction projects,building village organizations,reforming the administrative system and forming a new mode of national governance.Therefore,the organizational mechanism of rural construction includes two approaches of "collective practice" and " the logic of market" and thus constructs various organizational modes and institutional arrangements.Under the socialist system,setting up a "model" has always been an important strategy for the country to mobilize,control and integrate society.In this study,He Tang Village,Xinyang City,Henan Province,a "typical" village for national rural construction,is selected as an empirical case.Combined with organizational research and theoretical resources of new institutionalism,the organizational process of He Tang Village's rural construction project from scratch is expounded from a structural and diachronic perspective through participating in observation,in-depth interviews and text analysis of construction materials.The study found that the process of village construction in He Tang village can be divided into three stages as the two approaches of "collective practice" and " the logic of market" go from one to the other.In the initial stage,He Tang village tends to construct community organizations in times of scarcity of resources and set up "collective ethics" to protect the basic right to subsistence of the weak with the collective concept of the villagers' living world.However,with the deepening of marketization,He Tang Village has continuously improved its resource mobilization and organizational capabilities through organizational mechanisms,and has constructed an "institutionalized organization".When the project is over,how to give full play to villagers' subjectivity and connect with a larger market has become the focus of the investigation.It also contains such important issues as "why the organizational mechanism fails","how to maximize the organizational benefits" and "institutional changes in rural construction".To sum up,this study believes that organizational mechanism and organization should be regarded as the core issues of rural construction in our country,and calls for "reorganization" to clarify the organizational subject and center,organizational structure and organizational mechanism to form the resultant force of rural construction.