Exploring the configurational paths for quality development of digital rural areas is both a theoretical need and a practical demand for accelerating the development of digital rural areas.Based on the new endogenous development theory,this paper constructs a factor analysis framework for the quality development of digital rural areas.Taking 37 top 100 digital rural counties as typical cases of quality development,it uses the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis to explore the configurational paths for quality development of digital rural areas.The study finds that the quality development of digital rural areas is the result of the mutual dependence and coupling of multiple factors such as government functions, economic foundation,digital infrastructure, and human resources.The approach to quality development of digital rural areas can be summarized as industry-talent-driven,economy-talent-driven,government-infrastructure-driven,and government-infrastructure-talent-driven.The size of talent pool plays a significant role in the quality development of digital rural areas.There is a substitution effect between consumption and fiscal expenditure,and there is also an offset effect between consumption and industrial structure.