New “Quality” Driving New “Governance”: A Dual-Driven Approach to Rural Digital Governance from the Perspective of Adapting Production Relations

The innovative concept of “new quality productive forces” highlights technological innovation as the core driving force behind high-quality economic development. With the increasing empowerment of modern information technologies such as digital technology in rural governance, the new development productive forces have fostered innovations and transformations in governance models. However, rural digital governance currently faces practical challenges, including a shortage of digital talent and inadequate infrastructure. Therefore, based on analyzing the mechanisms by which new quality productive forces empower the operation of rural digital governance, this paper attempts to explore practical approaches for leveraging new quality productive forces to empower rural revitalization, with the aim of advancing the modernization of rural governance with Chinese characteristics and achieving sustainable development in rural economies and societies.