Abstract: The management and protection of rural water environment involves multi-stakeholders. The joint participation of multiple subjects are the key to improve the effectiveness of governance. Based on the analysis of the current status of rural sewage network treatment in Changyuan city, Henan province, the balanced score card is used as a performance evaluation tool, this study sets and evaluates the performance of rural sewage network governance in Changyuan city of Henan province from four dimensions of finance, customers, internal operations, learning and growth. The results show that the endogenous network governance model with villages as the main body, government guidance, and social resources support is more effective, which will help to open a new situation of rural sewage treatment.

Key words: balanced score card（BSC）, rural sewage governance, network governance, performance evaluation, Changyuan city