Abstract: With the great changes in rural social structure, social order and social relations, the traditional social work methods are no longer sufficient to deal with the complexity and diversity of disputes in the rural areas. But it has brought great room for the involvement of professional rural social work. When regional knowledge is applied in mediating disputes and carrying out professional rural social work, there are "similarities" and "dissimilarities" in aspects of acquaintance society's mutual assistance and stranger society's seeking assistance, indigenous experience and professional methods, traditional rural values and professional ethical values. For this reason, the paper points out that the inter-construction and sharing of regional knowledge and rural social work during the transitional period should be realized from the two aspects:the localization of social work and the specialization of indigenous experience.

Key words: regional knowledge, rural social work, dispute mediation, inter-construction