Abstract: To promote the strategy of rural revitalization, legal and orderly pilot reform weighs too much. This paper, through the analysis of 392 illegal cases in the pilot reform of rural policies, finds that the relevant offenses are mainly committed by the primary level heads who act the hub intermediary role in the pilot process; some offenses involve in the group who takes the leading role in the practice, an phenomenon which stands out for the power rent-seeking for private interests has resulted in the infringement of state property and others' interests, hence a serious impact on the pilot practice and the realization of its objectives. The punishment, however, weighs less when comparing with the malignant results thus produced, and the impact is not fully connected with the results, thus shadowing the particularity of the harm. The root lies in the “hub disengaging”, that is, the grass-roots heads, for their own benefits, do not well perform the hub function to knot the high-level governments with the primary-level ordinaries; instead they intercept the pilot resources and eliminate the pilot needs in various ways, thus resulting in a failure of the pilot project. To prevent the outbreak of illegal risks in the pilot reform, the key lies in the back embedding of pilot power so as to construct a standardized path of pilot power restriction.

Key words: pilot reform of rural policies, offenses, de-intercalation, back inlay, rural revitalization