Taking a typical agriculture-driven village as an example,this paper discusses the changes of logic in land adjustment from the angle of governance.In the eighties and nineties of the last century,the adjustment of land,mainly in form of the dynamic flow of land,was realised through villagers’ rational land concensus and orgnisations within the village,which was labelled the village endogenous governance.But since the agricultural tax-free reform,the village governance failed in practice due to the individualised and market-oriented Three Rural Issues,which in turn gave rise to the differentiation of land interest and the indomitable governance dilemma within the village.To maintain the balance of land interest,villagers usually exerted increasing pressure to the local government by event-oriented strategic action and consequently,the local government was forced to adjust farmland case by case.The event-based land adjustment was factually a compromise,revealing the lack of governance resources and principles.The changes of land adjustment indicate that severe social problems would emerge one after another if the endogenous governance logic is feeble compared with the forceful national power in the course of policy implementation.