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In 2020, China's poverty alleviation has made decisive achievements, and the regional overall poverty problem and the absolute poverty problem of the rural population in China have been basically solved. But when the national poverty alleviation policy is optimized and adjusted, enhancing the endogenous sustainable development capacity of poverty-stricken areas and households has become the focus of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Livelihood resilience, which focuses specifically on the ability of individuals to withstand external shocks and disturbances with their own capital, is a necessary attribute for achieving sustainable development. However, previous studies paid less attention to the disturbance of social factors and the driving effect of social environmental factors on the construction of livelihood resilience. Using 518 farmer survey data from Shaanxi Province, this paper explores the mechanism by which farmers individual capital affects their livelihood resilience through ICT adoption. Statistical analysis shows that social networks are the most important factor for farmers to resist risks and develop sustainably. The empirical study finds that farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption are important variables in the construction of farmers' livelihood resilience. Specifically, the more individual capital farmers possess, the more likely they are to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. The higher the level of ICT adoption by farmers. the more they tend to have higher levels of livelihood resilience. At the same time, the impact mechanism of farmers' individual capital and ICT adoption on livelihood resilience shows an intermediary effect: individual capital use of digital technology livelihood resilience. In this path. ICT adoption partially mediates the impact of individual capital on the level of livelihood resilience, and the indirect effect of ICT adoption on livelihood resilience is greater than the direct effect, and the results are robust. Further analysis shows that there is no significant gender difference in the impact of farmers' individual capital on livelihood resilience. Compared with previous literature this paper expands on the following aspects: first, the risk factors of most previous studies on livelihood resilience are natural and ecological. In this paper, the risk scenario of livelihood resilience was extended from relatively sudden natural ecology to changes in social factors, and the construction mechanism of livelihood resilience under changes in the social environment was constructed. Second, previous studies on livelihood resilience rarely included the effects of ICT adoption. In this paper, ICT adoption is included in the relationship between farmers' individual capital and livelihood resilience. Third, most previous literature finds that ICT adoption exacerbates the digital divide between urban residents and rural residents. However, this study finds that in the face of risks, digital technology, as an external social construction, also brings about social integration, and ICT adoption essentially plays a role in the redistribution of resources and factors between urban and rural areas and between regions. An important policy implication of this study is that in terms of effectively connecting the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, the path of individual capital-digital technology-sustainable development should be generally followed, which would improve farmers' livelihood resilience and endogenous sustainable development ability in the face of external risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Realizing the common prosperity of farmers and rural areas is the most difficult and heavy task in China, which means that strengthening and innovating rural governance will undertake more goals and tasks to achieve common prosperity. Therefore, it is necessary to build a community of rural governance from the perspective of common prosperity to achieve a high degree of unity between common prosperity and effective governance in rural areas. However, the existing research has rarely taken common prosperity as the breakthrough point and carried out the research on rural governance community from this perspective, especially the research attention on how common prosperity guides and promotes the construction of rural governance community and how the construction of rural governance community can effectively promote common prosperity is not enough. Firstly, this paper analyzes the internal relationship between the realization of common prosperity and the construction of rural governance community, and finds that realizing common prosperity is the basic premise and value orientation in the construction of rural governance community, while the construction of rural governance community is the realization and essential requirement of common prosperity, which shows the internal coupling relationship between the two ways and purposes of mutual realization. Secondly, based on this internal relationship, we can find that the foundation of the internal unity of the Marx's community thought and urban-rural relationship theory is its theoretical origin, the realistic guidance of the internal unity of Xi Jinping's Thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era's common prosperity thought and rural governance thought is its theoretical innovation, and the contemporary sublimation of “Great Harmony” and rural governance thought in Chinese excellent culture is its theoretical foundation. Finally, on its implementation path, we need to strengthen Party building and strengthen the “connotation” and “extension” of coordinating the rural governance community, to develop rural collective economy to build the material foundation of rural governance community, and to improve the rural governance system of “Three Governance Integration” and the governance mechanism of rural governance community. Besides, we need to actively promote urban-rural integration and activate the endogenous motivation of rural governance community. Compared with the previous literature, this paper expands in the following two aspects:first, it combs the internal relationship between the realization of common prosperity and the construction of rural governance community, and clarifies the theoretical premise of in-depth discussion of rural governance community and its construction from a new perspective of common prosperity. Secondly, in the analysis of theoretical logic, it pays attention to the basic principles of Marxism and its combination with China's reality and Chinese excellent traditional culture. Instead of thinking about the governance community in the rural category, it innovatively discusses the rural governance community and its construction from the overall situation of urban-rural integration based on economic relations and the basic trend of rural governance modernization. The research in this paper may enrich and expand the theoretical horizon of the study of rural governance community to a certain extent, reveal the internal relationship between common prosperity and rural governance community, help relevant departments in China to provide ideas and references for policy making in rural governance practice at present, promote rural governance effectively and solidly promote farmers' common prosperity in rural areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]