改革开放以来，中国农民关于义利、理欲关系的认知理解较之传统的价值观念发生了颠覆性的转向：在摆脱传统“以义规利”、“以理导欲”的道德规制、追求“义利相与”、“理欲和解”理想目标的同时，也出现了“以利逾义”、“以欲越理”的道德歧路，表现出分裂义利、理欲关系的偏向，隐含着道德功利化甚至道德虚无的价值危机。因此，建设新型的义利、理欲观念，积极引导农民汲取传统价值观的合理内核，并结合新时代的发展特色，赋予其新的内容，推动农村社会的道德建设，成为了加强我国乡村治理的重要维度与途径。

Since the practice of reform and opening-up, there has been a shift of the view concerning righteousness and profit and that concerning principle and desire in China’s rural areas: with the turning from traditional morals of regulating profit by means of righteousness and desire by means of principle to new pursuits of combining righteousness with desire and principle with desire and even to giving propriety to profit and desire unfortunately, the trend of the separation of profit from righteousness and desire from principle implies value crisis of treating morals in a utilitarian and even nihilistic way. Therefore, it is essential for the rural governance to achieve new rational understandings of the relationship between righteousness and profit and that between principle and desire by absorbing traditional wisdom and adapting to the new situation of the time.