Digital Technology Empowers the Logic, Challenge and Optimization Path of Grassroots Social Governance Modernization in Frontier Ethnic Areas

With the implementation of strategies such as Digital China and Digital Management, digital technology has reshaped the resource allocation, organizational operation and public participation models of grassroots governance, providing a new path to solve the problems such as large governance radius, high costs and weak collaboration in border areas. From the perspective of digital technology empowerment, this paper analyzes the internal logic, practical challenges and optimization paths of its empowerment of the modernization of grassroots governance. The research shows that digital transformation is not merely the application of technology, but a governance transformation that couples multiple logics such as technology, institutions and social values. However, the empowerment of digital technology for the modernization of grassroots governance in ethnic border areas is jointly constrained by multiple factors such as weak infrastructure, insufficient digital literacy, poor institutional collaboration, insufficient cultural adaptation, limited resource investment and increased security pressure. Therefore, to promote the modernization of grassroots social governance in border and ethnic minority areas, efforts should be made in a coordinated manner from aspects such as consolidating the digital foundation, strengthening capacity building, optimizing institutional supply, adhering to cultural adaptation, coordinating development and security, and emphasizing classified advancement, so as to truly integrate digital technology into local governance practices and transform it into sustainable, replicable and scalable governance capabilities.