Abstract:
The future rural construction in Qingshan Village, Huanghu Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, is a novel exploration of sustainable rural transition under the strategy of rural revitalization. Macro-institutional changes in rural areas significantly impact the speed and scope of sustainable transition. However, the intricate institutional dynamics underlying rural sustainable transition remain unclear. In particular, the link between short-term changes on the micro-level and long-term changes on the system level of rural sustainable transition has not been fully explored. To further deepen our understanding of rural sustainable transition, this study employs the transition topology analysis method, taking Qingshan Village as the research object. It integrates the perspectives of evolutionary geo-economics and new institutional organization theory to analyze the institutional dynamics of sustainable transition in Qingshan Village. The research results explain the three stages of the sustainable transition process in Qingshan Village and the changes between these stages, propose the pivotal role of social welfare organizations, and analyze the process of 'multi-point circulation' inter-organizational networks driving micro-level organizational changes towards macro-level institutionalization. The transition topology analysis clarifies the structured patterns of institutional dynamics in Qingshan Village's sustainable transition, built upon spatio-temporal sequences and complex causalities, further expanding research on rural sustainable transition and rural spatial governance.