Rural territorial space value enhancement and governance system construction: Challenges, paths and development

China's rural revitalization strategy has entered a new stage aimed at achieving comprehensive revitalization. Enhancing the value of rural territorial space and constructing a corresponding governance system have become crucial measures and key issues in advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. To this end, experts and scholars from various fields have been specially invited to discuss policies, theories, practices, measures, and trends concerning the enhancement of rural territorial spatial value, planning and design, and systematic governance. Based on their viewpoints, three key issues can be distilled. (1) By leveraging the unique agricultural, ecological, and cultural resources of rural areas, the synergistic potential of rural territorial space value and governance can be fully realized. A diversified and integrated rural territorial space value system should be established, and pathways for the organic unification of its value realization and enhancement should be explored. (2) Experts have identified integrated urban-rural development as a key lever to clarify the interactive relationship between rural spatial planning and governance. Through systematic design and the unlocking of rural spatial value potential, a governance system has been established to ensure the realization of these values. (3) The advanced experience in enhancing the value and governance of rural territorial space in metropolitan suburbs should be promoted in accordance with local conditions, and focused attention should be given to the value realization mechanisms of critical land use types in rural areas. In addition, innovative practices for the transformation and development of metropolitan service-oriented, traditional cultural, nature conservation, and agricultural industry-oriented villages should be explored. Finally, this paper calls upon experts from diverse fields to jointly advance research on an autonomous knowledge system for Chinese rural modernization, thereby contributing insights to global rural development theory and practice.