Abstract: This article takes the P district in North China as an example, and from the perspective of government work mechanisms, proposes an analytical framework for the centralization of routine work to explain the problem of internal competition in rural living environment governance. This article understands routine work and central work from the perspectives of work attributes and work mechanisms. It points out that routine work and central work are two governance affairs with different attributes, as well as two different work mechanisms. Effective governance can only be achieved under the condition of matching work attributes and work mechanisms. Research has found that the governance of rural living environment has characteristics such as routine, non challenging, and non urgent. From the perspective of work attributes, it belongs to the category of routine work. However, local governments have adopted a high-level work mechanism of central work in their actual work. In order to cope with the pressure overload caused by mechanism mismatch, the governance of living environment is becoming increasingly refined and administrative. However, refinement and administrative have generated high administrative costs, resulting in suspended governance effects and gradually falling into the dilemma of internal competition. The governance mechanism of rural living environment governance needs to return from central work to routine work, from refinement to simplicity, from administration to autonomy, and adapt to the government's capacity to bear and the actual needs of villagers.