Village Manager and "Fishing" Strategy: Village Cadres in the Context of Project in Villages——A Case Study of Xishui Village

In the context of the strategy of rural revitalization, a lot of resources are invested into rural areas, while the relationship between the government, village and village cadres has been changed, so as to the role and behavior characteristics of village cadres. Taking a village in North China as an example, this paper discusses the dual effects of the national project after entering into village: on the one hand, it is a means of infiltrating the state power into the village, on the other hand, it stimulates a group of rural elites to devote themselves into rural construction. This paper argues that the rural elites become "village managers" in the context of project entering the village. They take the "fishing" strategy to get more projects from governments, and try to get government support and villagers' trust at the same time, so as to form a virtuous circle between the two goals of getting "government resources" and "villagers' trust". This paper attempts to analyze and summarize the behavior and identity characteristics of this kind of village cadres, and reflect on the impact of project in villages.