| Effective governance is the foundation and guarantee of the rural revitalization.The reform of rural collective property rights is not only an economic issue, but also a grassroots governance issue. Unlike the the common analyses on the rural collective property rights from the perspective of theories or systems, this article compares and analyzes the specific practices of rural property rights reform and the situation and style of rural governance after the property rights reform from the perspective of governance in different regions of Guangdong Province. It is concluded that the share conversion promoted in the Pearl River Delta region in the 1980s is quantified to single person,, such reform of the property rights shareholding system has invisibly cultivated a group of grassroots interest groups that are highly organized, closely linked, and seeking to maximize their interests. It weakens the collective economic organizations and local governments' ability to coordinate economic development, diminishes the power of grassroots governance, and plunges the grassroots into a governance crisis. The article further analyzes the case of Qingyuan City of Guangdong, an underdeveloped area, in which the governance power is consistent with the property rights unit through the downward transfer of governance power, and exerting the power of the villager group as the most basic unit of property rights to activate the governance subjectivity of the villager group and the villagers and realize internal autonomy. It smoothly resolved the governance crisis after the property rights reform. Therefore, the reform of rural property rights can improve grassroots governance and achieve effective governance goals. The reform of rural property rights in both developed and underdeveloped areas should aim at improving the organization and governance capabilities of the grassroots level, and achieve effective grassroots governance by consolidating and operating collective property rights. |
