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Following the rural tax-for-fee reform and the abolition of agricultural taxes in the early 2000s, the overall supply of rural public goods has improved, but its performance is still deficient. During a field study of ecological migrants in rural Ningxia, the authors witnessed the problems encountered in the implementation of a public housing project. This episode demonstrates how the provision of rural public goods depends on rural governance that responds to the tension between modern development and the values of rural society. The failure of the project stems from the clash between the logic of peasant actions and the performance indicators of cadres, producing an internal rupture between rural society and rural governance. In the process of modernization and urbanization, grassroots government is becoming more bureaucratic and technical, with the prevalence of e-government and especially with village committees turning increasingly administrativized and beholden to superior levels of government, and thus is failing to fully embed itself in rural society. 提要: 自税费改革后，农村公共物品供给总量提升但绩效不足。本文通过对"一户多代"住房案例的深度研究发现:供给绩效不足的表层原因是供需错位、决策僵化与公众参与不足，而深层制约在于农村公共物品供给与基层治理相耦合。有效的供给受制于有效的治理，现行乡村治理在现代化进程中越发科层化与技术化，与传统的小农社会存在内在张力，基层治理日渐悬浮，干部普遍难以理解乡土逻辑并融入乡土社会。有效的治理首先要回应现代治理与乡土社会之间的张力，乡村治理体制与乡土社会的内在断裂正成为当下乡村治理的首要问题。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]