Grassroots government officials in the study of petition system have become research hotspots due to their direct contact with petitioners and the implementation of petition policies. Most of the research literature's positioning of village cadres is the filter of petitioners, ignoring the multiple identities of village cadres in the petition system. Under the petition system, village cadres are not only the street bureaucrats who assist the country to maintain grassroots stability, but also the members of the community embedded in the rural social network and become the “state-society”. The two-way agent, but the village cadre during the transition period may also become an initiator of petition: either because of the violation of the legitimate interests of the villagers, or because of the morality and responsibility of participating in the villagers’ petitions, which shows the multiple identities of the village cadres in the petition field. The complexity of rural governance power reproduction is closely related to the structure of “state-society”, the flexibility of petition system and the inflection point of resources going to the countryside. Analysis of this triple logic helps to fully understand the interaction between grassroots officials and institutional operations.