Editor's note: The sudden new outbreak of pneumonia is a major examination of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, normalized epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development "double co-ordination" has steadily moved toward "double victory", demonstrating the vivid practice and significant advantages of "governance in China". In order to further in-depth study, propaganda and implementation of the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party, to better adhere to and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and to better translate the advantages of the system into governance effectiveness, the Central Internet Information Office and Qiushi Magazine jointly organized "China's Steady Advance" online theory communication column invites experts and scholars in the ideological and theoretical circles to write a series of theoretical articles.
Summary of content: Only when urban governance is done well can society be stable and economy can develop. The prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic is a major examination of China's urban governance system and governance capabilities, which has both experience and lessons. We must make up for the shortcomings in urban governance as soon as possible, promote the innovation of ideas, strengthen the governance according to law, focus on the combination of peace and war, insist on sinking the center of gravity, focus on strengthening the construction of urban digitalization, intelligence and intelligence, and promote the urban governance system and governance capabilities. In the aspect of modernization, we will work hard to build a solid line of defense for the full implementation of "people's cities, people's cities, and people's cities for the people".
During the epidemic prevention and control process, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave instructions on the issue of "urban governance" many times, emphasizing that "urban governance is an important part of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities", "Cities are living organisms and organisms, we must be awe Cities, be kind to cities, establish a 'full cycle management' consciousness, and strive to explore new ways to modernize governance in megacities ". This fully shows that the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core attaches great importance to the social governance of China's municipal areas, including megacities. At the same time, it also puts forward new propositions, new requirements and tasks for the modernization of urban governance in China from the perspective of the epidemic situation examination.
"Must do a good job of urban governance system and governance capacity modernization"
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, we must grasp the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities." The Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Party made a major strategic deployment of "promoting the modernization of social governance in the municipal area", and proposed the goal of "obtaining obvious results in all aspects of the system being more mature and stereotyped" during the 100th anniversary of the party. After undergoing the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic Examination, China's municipal social governance system, including megacities, has undergone a comprehensive test, demonstrating the powerful advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and its governance capabilities under the leadership of the Party. This is the basic point that China's urban governance modernization must "persist and consolidate". At the same time, in the "wartime" state, the shortcomings and weaknesses such as the national emergency management system, public health, and urban environmental governance have been exposed, which has actually become an important focus of "improvement and development" in the future.
It should be noted that since the reform and opening up, China's urbanization process has been accelerating. As the aggregation effect of production factors such as population and resources gradually enlarges, the weight of urban agglomerations in the development of the entire country is increasing. Correspondingly, the problem of governance becomes more and more urgent. International experience also shows that social problems such as urban-rural segmentation, public health, aging, risk accumulation, environmental pollution, traffic congestion and other social problems associated with the process of high-speed urbanization will become prominent, and the resulting “urban disease” has become a constraint The "bottleneck" of development. All these require us to consciously stand at the height of realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, fully implement the new development concept, and take the opportunity to advance the modernization of urban governance.
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has based on the specific practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics and has always attached great importance to urban work and its governance. In recent years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made new deployments and put forward new requirements in response to new trends and directions such as the refinement of urban grassroots social governance, the establishment of full-cycle management awareness, and the trend from intelligence to intelligence. These important expositions and the scientific world view and methodologies they embody provide us with a deep understanding of the great significance, scientific connotation, and principle requirements for advancing the modernization of urban governance under the new situation, and do a good job in all practical work.
"With good urban governance, society can be stable and economy can develop"
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Using good urban governance, society can be stable and economy can develop." "We need to have first-class governance in order to create a world-class city, and we must make further efforts to this end." This clearly points out the key and fundamental position of "governance" in the overall sustainable development of the entire city. In recent years, from the implementation of party building in Beijing to lead the reform of "street and village whistling and department registration", to the application of "Maple Bridge Experience" in modern urban governance in Zhejiang, and the use of big data in Shanghai and Hangzhou to create "urban brains" to crack the governance of megacities Difficulties, etc., benefiting from technological innovation and governance upgrades, and promoting the modernization of national governance with a smart governance platform, the concept of socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics can be fully demonstrated and show a strong vitality.
People's cities are people. Cities are an important carrier of people's production and life, and they hold hundreds of millions of people's longing for a better life. "Always put the safety and health of the people in the first place", as an important part of our party's ruling philosophy, it was concentrated in this epidemic prevention and control, and vividly interpreted "the people's city is built by the people, the people's city is The fundamental value of "people" follows. As General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "Whether it is urban planning or urban construction, whether it is the construction of new urban areas or the reconstruction of old urban areas, we must insist on taking the people as the center." Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The main contradictions in our society have been transformed into contradictions between the people ’s growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development. The people ’s response to “democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment” The requirements in other aspects are becoming more prominent. This is reflected in the municipal social governance, which requires that our city managers must change from the achievements driven to the people-oriented high-quality governance model.
Improve the level of refinement. The difference between governance and management reflects the actual requirements and development trends of scientific, rule of law, specialization, and intelligence. The outbreak of this epidemic in a megacity like Wuhan is itself a big test of urban governance. From the outbreak of the epidemic, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the principles and principles of "Strong Confidence, Togetherness, Scientific Prevention, and Accurate Policy". In fact, from Wuhan to the whole province of Hubei to all parts of the country, it is precisely this principle that has been implemented in the entire process of prevention and control and each side of it. Major strategic achievements in the controlled blockade. This requirement is reflected in the daily governance of the city, which is pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping-"Promote the refinement of service supply, identify the entry point and focus point for serving the masses, implement the service supply side reform to meet the needs of the masses, and do a good job. "Practical Livelihood" "People's livelihood is stable, people's hearts are stable, and society is stable." Looking into the future, China's urbanization process is in the ascendant, and hundreds of millions of people continue to join the ranks of urban life. This requires us to completely change the past extensive management methods, adhere to the new development concept as a guide, and embroider "Meticulous, careful and ingenious" strives for excellence in urban governance and "embroiders the city's quality brand" to provide a good livable environment for people's production and life.
Make the city smarter and smarter. A modern city is a complex giant system, and it must make full use of big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other modern technological means to accelerate the construction of "urban brain" and take the road of "smart city". General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during a recent inspection in Zhejiang, "From digital to intelligent to intelligent, making cities smarter and smarter is the only way to promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities." In this regard, including Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places have made useful and unique explorations, and accumulated some experience, but from a national perspective, especially in Wuhan and other places in response to major public health emergencies It can be seen that, in contrast to the overall deployment of the Party Central Committee, the construction of "smart cities" still faces arduous and arduous tasks.
"Strive to improve the urban governance system"
The Fourth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to "improve the social governance system of party committee leadership, government responsibility, democratic consultation, social coordination, public participation, rule of law guarantee, and technology support", as well as "strive to form a social governance of joint construction, co-governance and sharing pattern". This guiding principle has been fully verified in this epidemic exam. As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, “This new coronary pneumonia epidemic prevention and control is a big test for the governance system and governance capabilities, and it has both experience and lessons.” “We must focus on improving the urban governance system.” A healthy line of defense for the system ".
Promote concept innovation, and strive to explore new ways of modernizing governance in megacities. To effectively promote the modernization of urban governance, innovation of ideas is essential. When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the prevention and control of New Coronary Pneumonia in Wuhan, he proposed, "establish a" full-cycle management "awareness and strive to explore new ways of modernizing governance in megacities." This provides a new concept for the current urban governance modernization in China and clarifies the direction of efforts . "Full cycle management" is an advanced concept of modern management science, which is invoked in the field of social governance such as cities. It essentially reflects the scientific understanding of "Cities are living organisms and organisms", and is also the "system governance, comprehensive governance, legal governance, and source. Governance "is an inevitable requirement. Judging from the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the governance of megacities in China, especially the urban and rural grassroots governance system, has shortcomings. According to the requirements of "full-cycle management", the disadvantages of separate policies and fragmentation are still in the driving force. , Resources, departments and other elements are fully integrated to achieve system integration, coordinated and efficient operation, there is still a distance.
Strengthen governance according to law, and gradually realize the legalization, standardization and institutionalization of urban governance. Adhering to comprehensively governing the country according to law is a significant advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the national governance system. In order to provide strong legal protection for epidemic prevention and control, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The more difficult the epidemic prevention and control is, the more we must insist on prevention and control according to law, and coordinate and advance all prevention and control work on the rule of law." Party committees and governments must perform their duties in accordance with the law in an all-round way, insist on using the rule of law thinking and the way of rule of law to carry out epidemic prevention and control, promote the construction of a government under the rule of law in handling major emergencies, and improve the level of governance and administration according to law. " We have seen that from the outbreak of the epidemic, from top to bottom, we have paid special attention to following the law and strictly implemented the Law of the People ’s Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, the Emergency Response Law of the People ’s Republic of China, and the State Council ’s Emergency Regulations on Public Health Emergencies ”And other laws and regulations, and comprehensively promote various prevention and control work on the track of the rule of law. At the same time, the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress is working to strengthen and improve laws and regulations in the field of biosecurity.
Focus on the combination of peace and war, and pay close attention to improving the national public health emergency management system. In response to the shortcomings and deficiencies exposed by the epidemic, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "This epidemic exposes that we still have shortcomings in the governance of the urban public environment. We must thoroughly investigate and rectify and fill in the public health shortcomings." The persistence, the perfection, the establishment of the establishment, the implementation of the implementation, the improvement of major epidemic prevention and control systems and mechanisms, and the improvement of the national public health emergency management system. " From the transformation of "people waiting for bed" at the beginning of the outbreak to later "bed waiting for people", people have seen a good display of the response and work style of the front line of epidemic areas in Wuhan and other areas under "wartime" conditions. It also exposed the lack of public service capabilities in China's urban governance system from one aspect. In the face of the rapid infection, the wide range of infections, and the unprecedented new crown epidemic situation, the problems of grading diagnosis and treatment, general practitioners, and material reserves in the public health field are still more prominent. In fact, in a modern society where risks accumulate, the construction of all urban emergency systems, including public health, adheres to prevention, and constantly establishes and improves links involving risk monitoring, early warning, release, and treatment, material, personnel, and coordination. Institutional mechanisms are not only necessary, they are also very urgent.
Insist on the sinking of the center of gravity, and constantly strengthen the grassroots foundation of urban governance. The "last mile" of urban governance is in the community. On February 10, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized in Beijing, when investigating and guiding the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, "Community is the first line of joint prevention and control of the epidemic, and it is also the most effective line of defense against external input and internal proliferation. Keeping this line of defense in the community can effectively cut off the channels for the spread of the epidemic. "In the people's war, the overall war, and the war of resistance to the epidemic, the" grid members "who" retrograde "one by one are unforgettable. . The "grid member" is just a symbol of the "gridization" model in China's urban grassroots governance in recent years. It represents an important trend of urban governance in China in the new era, that is, to emphasize the grassroots basic orientation, starting from the smallest unit, The smallest cell grabs and pushes down the center of gravity, the strength, and the resources. On April 8th, General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically wrote back to encourage all community workers in the community of Donghu New City, Wuhan, to fully demonstrate the "winning epidemic situation" in the unprecedented epidemic prevention and control struggle, "the majority of community party members and cadres lead by example and charge ahead" "The power to prevent and control the people's war" praised. This also shows that, from the perspective of "everyone is responsible, everyone is responsible, everyone is enjoying" the social governance community, the initiative, enthusiasm and creativity of the people, including "grid members", are fully mobilized and brought into full play. Not only is it decisive for responding to the "crisis" situation, it is also essential for daily urban governance.
Overcome the panic of skill and fill up the shortcomings of governance ability as soon as possible. Leading cadres at all levels are the key to better transforming system advantages into governance effectiveness. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "in this epidemic prevention and control work, the governance and professional capabilities of some leading cadres have clearly failed to keep up and must be highly valued." The report of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that to follow the long march of the new era, leading cadres at all levels must achieve both political excellence and high skills. In the face of major public health emergencies, the "quality" of leading cadres at all levels, including political positions, ideological consciousness, work style, knowledge literacy, and business skills, will be unobstructed. In fact, in addition to the extraordinary state under the "crisis", that is, in a large number of daily tasks, all seemingly insignificant "little things" are all related to the "governance" overall situation. Therefore, we must resolutely abandon all kinds of formalism and bureaucracy, continuously improve our governance capabilities and levels, and always maintain the "temporary war" state with the spirit of "catch up on exams".
(Author: Hirofumi)