Shenzhen Reform and Opening Up Executive Leadership Academy Holds Salon on ‘Party Construction leads Governance of Mega City’

To mark the 100^th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, Shenzhen Reform and Opening Up Executive Leadership Academy held an academic salon on “Party Construction Leads the Urban Governance of Mega City: Theories, Cases and Experience” on June 25.

Specialists in urban governance, frontline government staffers, journalists and representatives of some of the cases were invited to the salon to discuss the practice and main experience of Party construction-led social governance at community level. The salon was chaired by Vice President Chen Jiaxi of the academy.

The academic salon on Party building was aimed at sorting out the nearly 40 typical cases that emerged in the field of Party-construction-led social governance in the mega city of Shenzhen. The attendees had discussions on various issues such as Party building-led governance at community and residential-estate levels, solutions to development problems and technological support, with an aim to propose a theory on a community governance model with Shenzhen characteristics, and put forward the Shenzhen experience on the Party-building-led governance in a mega city.

It was agreed among the attendees of the salon that Shenzhen, a mega city, has undergone profound changes in its urban morphology, production methods and social structure viewing on the coordinates of the new era. It’s become urgent for Shenzhen to address issues that it has faced in the city’s further development, such as how to overcome the bottleneck of limited development space, the confusing institution system and mechanism, the shortcomings of people’s wellbeing and the difficulty of environmental governance, through the leadership of Party construction, to achieve the modernization of urban governance. It was also agreed that Party building is vital to innovating governance at community level, and mobilizing various organizations and resources to offer solutions to community problems.

It is necessary to actively explore institutional innovation in Party building-led community governance, focus on serving the public in the neighborhoods and offer services in Shenzhen’s drive to push forward the high-quality development while addressing public interests, tackling community governance problems, and constructing a new pattern of community governance in mega cities. In particular, it is of special importance to benchmark the construction goals of the modernization of the national governance system and capability, and fulfill the historic mission of constructing the pilot demonstration zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We will strive to explore a model of people-centered community governance led by Party construction.