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Endogenous Drivers of Rural Revitalization in Ethnic Regions in the New Era

Author(s)

Baichen Jiang

Affiliation(s)

Petrochemical Technology, Tianjin Petroleum Vocational and Technical College, Tianjin, China

Abstract

Rural revitalization in ethnic regions faces the dilemma of “blood transfusion dependency”-characterized by “massive inflows of external resources coupled with persistent insufficiency of endogenous driving forces.” The root cause lies not in a lack of subjective initiative, but in the structural contradiction between productive forces and production relations. This paper employs the materialist conception of history as an analytical framework to provide a philosophical definition of “endogenous driving forces” and applies it to research on rural revitalization in ethnic regions.Research indicates that rural production relations in ethnic regions exhibit a multi-layered, overlapping structure comprising the socialist system, the market economy, and traditional communal relations. At four levels-property rights, organization, distribution, and traditional social relations-systemic contradictions exist with the requirements for the development of productive forces. The fundamental path to stimulating endogenous momentum lies in proactively adjusting the aspects of production relations that act as obstacles, thereby transforming them from “shackles” on productive forces into “forms of development.”

Keywords

Materialist Conception of History; Productive Forces and Relations of Production; Ethnic Minority Regions; Rural Revitalization; Endogenous Driving Forces

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