On the Path of Grassroots Party Construction Leading to Grassroots Governance—Based on the Investigation of Liangdong Village Model in Yunfu City, Guangdong Province

Since the 19th CPC National Congress, the grassroots Party construction leading to grassroots governance has become one of the core themes of rural governance in China. This paper uses the case study method to conduct an in-depth study of Liangdong Village, Xinxing County, Yunfu City, Guangdong Province. The study finds that the sinking of the Party construction organization from the administrative village level to the natural village (village group) level, and the establishment of the Party's new grass-roots construction system on the basis of the Party and mass service points, play an important role in activating the natural village Party members' resources and forming the Party's guidance of social governance. It is of great significance to improve the Party's leadership style, to use soft power to guide the governance and rural development, and to expand the mass base of the Party's ruling power by putting the basic Party construction in the most basic natural village. Since entering the new century, the social structure of China's rural areas is increasingly moving from the structure of “totality” to “differentiation”. In this process of social transformation, the tranquility of the local society was completely broken; the society is increasingly characterized by diversity, fragmentation and mobility. Under the background of highly differentiated and strong mobilized rural society, traditional grass-roots governance which based on traditional agriculture, with static and networked management of farmers and rural governance models is increasingly unsuitable for agricultural farmers. In the comprehensive deepening reform of rural governance in the new era, the Party construction in the countryside, as the core content of the social governance pattern, has been put on the agenda. Like the traditional governance pattern of “village autonomy”, the rural Party construction has also showed its mismatching with the social development. It is mainly manifested in the following aspects: the value leading ability is suspended, the Party organization is suspended, the activity ability is declining, and the mechanism of embedding society relies heavily on administration. These problems have become the main obstacles for the Party to lead the rural governance, the Party committee’s leadership improvement, government responsibility, social cooperation, public participation, social governance system with the guarantee of the law, and creation of the co-construction, co-governance and co-shared social governance pattern.