Abstract: With the distribution of resources, supervision service, and the streamlined administration inclining to the rural areas, village level governance has entered the path of modern construction. Xicun Village has constructed a hybrid governance system by fully employing modern national governance rules and traditional governance resources. The village committees have recruited activists and clan elders, and formed a diversified governance pattern through formal, semi-formal, and informal governance methods. Village cadres are gradually becoming administrative, mainly responsible for routine tasks, and official documents and correspondence about core works; activists in the village, as semi-formal personnel, are responsible for mobilizing and coordinating the masses to complete the central work; the elderly association manages social affairs through local authoritative organizations. The division of labor and cooperation among diverse governance entities has shaped a hierarchical operational mechanism for village level governance, which includes “top-level coordination, intermediate transformation, and bottom mobilization”. Hybrid village level governance, as it is based on the optional organizational structures and diverse legal resources, and adopts classified governance according to the nature of affairs, well integrates the tradition of minimalist governance into the modernization of national governance construction, thus achieving the “governance with actions”, and shaping a modern minimalist governance model that takes into account both legitimacy and effectiveness.

Key words: minimalist governance, village-level governance, mixed organizations, modernization of governance, elderly association