The integrated rural development of primary, secondary, and tertiary industries serves as a vision of balanced and embedded rural development through new spatial models of the rural complex under China's Rural Revitalisation strategy. In practice, however, these projects frequently disembed from their rural surroundings. Existing research seldom explores the enclavisation of rural integrated development (including primary, secondary, and tertiary industries) and its mechanism. Drawing on Lefebvre's ‘representation of space’, this study argues that the enclave is inscribed before the boundary is built and is also generated within conceived space. The argument is developed through a typical case study of a rural complex in China, organised around three mechanisms. Firstly, as the national vision of integrated development is transmitted top-down across administrative scales, it is recoded as a tourism-led programme that displaces the slow, localised, use-value rationale of agriculture. In addition, urban background planners, working under compressed project timelines and standardisation pressures, reproduce a replicable urban-park aesthetic for the rural landscape. Moreover, every relevant party focuses on exchange value or political performance, while the rural dimension secures no advocate in the process. This study conceptualises the outcome as a representation of enclavisation and challenges collaborative planning theory. The failure of planning does not lie in distorted communication but in the efficient alignment of elite values and external power. Rural planning should thereby attend less to procedural deliberation and more to the question of whose conceived spaces are ultimately embedded in plan-making.