Abstract: With the comprehensive promotion of China’s rural revitalization strategy, rural endogenous motivation has become the key to the implementation of this strategy, especially with the rapid rollout of social work stations in mountainous counties, those increasingly “hollowing out” remote villages are facing dual vulnerability in population and region. In this way, the tapping of endogenous power in remote villages has become an urgent challenge for rural revitalization. Although the western new endogenous development model has noted the necessity of combining endogenous and exogenous factors, it does not provide a clear explanation of how to combine the two. Therefore, it is necessary to study the production process of endogenous power in remote villages assisted by social work stations in mountainous counties, in order to find out the practical path and theoretical basis of rural revitalization. Through a one-year case study of social work stations in two townships in County D of Quanzhou City, it is found that remote villages face the dual vulnerability of the population and the region at the same time, and that their endogenous power production relies on the construction of “population-region” double-layer internal and external promotion mechanism. That is, the introduction of social forces in the process of assisting disadvantaged people to enhance mutual internal and external promotion, thereby revitalizing regional resources and expanding the mechanism of internal and external mutual reinforcement of people at the regional level. This shows that the production of endogenous power needs to go beyond the philosophical perspective of internal/external dichotomy, and consider human beings as the subject of action with self-consciousness and capable of driving internal/external mutual reinforcement, so as to produce sustainable endogenous power.

Key words: rural revitalization, endogenous power, remote mountainous area, social work station