Abstract: The adjustment of power and responsibility relationships across different scales and jurisdictional scopes during spatial governance, along with the corresponding endogenous territorial construction processes that interact with it, can essentially be regarded as a form of scale restructuring, which is often employed as a means of regional integration in spatial governance practices. As the interface between the state and society, rural spatial governance faces more challenges in terms of multi-stakeholder participation, primarily manifested in the coordination process between 'institutional space' and 'social territory'. This is particularly evident in hilly regions characterized by dispersed social territorial organizations. In recent years, Sichuan Province has implemented reforms in township administrative divisions and village-level organizational adjustments, along with the contiguous compilation of township territorial spatial plans (hereinafter referred to as 'contiguous township planning'). This study selects the contiguous township planning in County C, a hilly region, as a typical case for investigation, preliminarily exploring the adaptability issues faced by scale restructuring aimed at strengthening regional integration when confronted with the constraints of dispersed natural-social territories in hilly areas. The study finds that the district-level institutional spaces constructed through contiguous township planning encounter issues such as mismatches in the operational scope of governance resources, disembedded relationships among governance entities, and ambiguous vertical transmission and horizontal coverage relationships when dealing with the territorial society in hilly regions. Therefore, it is proposed to introduce a 'bottom-up' scale retrospection as a complement to the transmission system, providing an appropriate operational scope for resource allocation and stakeholder consultation among multiple parties through the construction of secondary flexible scale spaces, with the aim of offering a path reference for embedding scale restructuring policies into governance systems in regions of this type.