Abstract:Digital nomads, through their mobility practice of wandering and rooting,' have gradually become a crucial force driving urban-rural integrated development by reshaping the configuration of urban and rural resources and dismantling the barriers of the urban-rural dual structure. Based on the analytical framework of the 'duality of mobility,' this paper systematically examines how digital nomads drive urban-rural integration through the threefold practical patterns of identity, role, and development. It elucidates the logical mechanism by which digital nomads 'liquefy' the inherent boundaries between urban and rural areas and reconstruct the 'connections' within urban-rural society, ultimately promoting optimized resource allocation, equal recognition of identities, collaborative coexistence in relationships, and co-creation and shared distribution of value.Research has found that digital nomads primarily exhibit mechanisms such as deterritorialization and re-embedding at the element level, dissolution and reconstruction at the identity level, lightness and re-weaving at the relational level, and circulation and re-precipitation at the value level, which serve to activate the endogenous power of rural areas and bridge the urban-rural development gap. However, in the face of the instability affecting nomadic groups, it is necessary: first, to improve rural 'digitally suitable for nurturing' infrastructure to meet the living needs of digital nomads; second, to enrich the connotations of rural digitally livable spaces and reconstruct digital nomad community relations; and third, to focus on rural digitally viable projects to broaden the sources of livelihood for digital nomads, thereby jointly ensuring their healthy growth and promoting innovation-driven urban-rural integration.