Abstract: How to create endogenous dynamics of rural collective economic development under collective property rights system has always been a difficult problem in the development of village-level collective economy. Some studies have paid attention to the influence of government support and village internal factors on the endogenous dynamics of village-level collective economy, but there is a lack of mechanism explanation and empirical examination of the autonomy generation of village-level collective economic development by the intervention of government power. Based on the rationale of "empowerment" rather than unidirectional dependence, the article constructs an explanatory framework of "administrative empowerment-factor activation" for the autonomous generation of village-level collective economic development, aiming to reveal how to activate the main actors, factor resources and organizational strength of village-level collective economy through the power of the government. The study of Town D as a case study shows that in order to generate the autonomy of village-level collective economic development, the government’s intervention can certainly inject indispensable institutional resources into the village-level collective economy. However, the role of the government should focus on the endogenous transformation of external inputs, promote the organic integration and localized value transformation of resources inside and outside the village in the benign interaction between the state and village community forces, so as to generate the autonomy of village-level collective economic development through incentive mobilization, resource integration and organizational unification.

Key words: administrative empowerment, factor activation, village collective economy