Abstract: Intra-Party regulations are an important guarantee for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, they are acting on national governance in a direct or indirect way, including the rural governance as an important part of national governance. The role of intra-Party regulations playing in rural governance stems from the Party’s own governance function and the spillover of the effectiveness of intra-Party regulations. The specific manifestations of the role of intra-Party regulations in rural governance are institutional empowerment, organizational embeddedness, and demonstrative guidance. The institutional empowerment clarifies the dominant position of Party organizations leading the grassroots governance; the organizational embeddedness ensures the full coverage of grassroots Party organizations on the one hand, and on the other hand implements the leadership of grassroots Party organizations over the grassroots political institutions and social organizations; the focus of demonstrative guidance lies in giving full play to the grassroots Party organizations as a fighting fortress and to the Party members as pioneers and examples. Rural governance is a governance system with multiple norms coexisting and co-governing. The intra-Party regulations must properly handle the relationship with national laws and village regulations, and play a role within the scope of their own adjustment and regulation.

Key words: intra-Party regulations, rural governance, institutional empowerment, organizational embeddedness