Dejun Kong, Shuang Lu

Dejun Kong

May 06, 2026

Business environment, Ethnic regions, Community construction, Meso mechanisms.

The optimization of the business environment in ethnic regions generates potential spillover effects on community construction through organizational coordination and rule reshaping, yet the intermediate transmission mechanisms remain under-theorized. This paper examines the ethnic specialty food industry in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, constructing a meso-level analytical framework of "institutional supply—organizational coordination—relationship reconstruction—community outcomes." Findings indicate that industrial park anchoring, chain-leader enterprise mobilization, standardization, and brand integration have transformed the industry from dispersed operations to organized collaboration, engendering processual conditions for community construction through rule sharing, interest articulation, and intensified interaction. The study argues that the spillover from business environment optimization to community construction hinges not on policy rhetoric, but on the translation of institutional supply into stable collaborative relationships and sustained interaction scenarios through industrial organization. This research offers an analytical lens for understanding the community construction potential of business environment governance in ethnic regions.

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