Abstract:

As a unique institutional arrangement emerging from China’s political ecology, the counterpart support policy has played an important role in coping with the national scale governance load, coordinating regional development and achieving common prosperity. The operation of China’s counterpart support policy is premised on the existence of development order difference, distance potential difference, task level difference and implementation equality difference between the support side and the recipient side. By constructing such elements as cycle connection, subject connection, project connection and hierarchical connection, the time gradient, space gradient, content gradient and structure gradient are effectively bridged. Based on the forward-looking thinking of the evolution from poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, we can constantly optimize the promotion path of the counterpart support policy from the dimensions of “political identity” coupling “common prosperity”, “gradient assistance” coupling “gradient cooperation”, “project system” coupling “product system”, and “assessment mechanism” coupling “consensus mechanism”.

Key words: counterpart support policy, operating mechanism, gradient linkage