Abstract: Based on the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 2013 to 2022, this paper builds a TOE-A analysis framework focusing on technology driving, organizational development, environmental improvement, and capacity upgrading, and explores the performance of China’s digital rural construction system with the help of coupling coordination degree and obstacle degree model. The results show that the coupling coordination degree of digital rural construction in China generally forms a development pattern of“high around, low in the middle”, and the inter-regional coupling degree gap is constantly expanding. There is still a large room for improvement in digital rural construction. The classification of obstacle factors can be mainly divided into five types:“facilities-literacy” obstacle type,“technology-governance-literacy” obstacle type,“governance- facility-literacy” obstacle type,“governance-literacy” obstacle type and“governance-facility” obstacle type. In order to break through the“bottleneck” of the construction of digital countryside, it is suggested to give full play to the function of the system according to local conditions to promote dynamic evolution on the basis of consolidating the existing achievements and breaking down the obstacle factors.