Abstract: Social work empowerment of villagers in community ecological governance represents a significant practice in rural social work and an important pathway for engaging in community governance. The processes and mechanisms for social workers mobilizing residents in ethnic communities to participate in ecological conservation practices are systematically examined by focusing on Village X in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, and social mobilization theory. The strategic experiences and practical approaches to social work in promoting villager engagement in ethnic community governance are further elucidated. The findings reveal that social work effectively enables villagers in Village X to carry out tropical rainforest restoration through cultural, human, organizational, and resource mobilization. The social work, in participating frontier community governance, should establish a multi-dimensional interactive mechanism centered on Party building guidance, supported by elite feedback, grounded in endogenous motivation cultivation, and reinforced by multidimensional system empowerment through eflecting on these conservation practices.

Key words: social work, resident participation, social mobilization, ecological conservation