China News Service, December 2 (Reporter Chen Jing) Director of the China Administrative Division Research Center and Professor Sun Bindong of East China Normal University emphasized in an interview on the 2nd that as a platform for social and economic activities, the organization and modernization of administrative division spaces are crucial important.
The scholar pointed out that administrative division is the expression of the government's power in space. Under the environment of the active role of the Chinese government, reasonable administrative division is the key to the efficiency of space governance.
He believes that we must pay attention to the cultivation of young talents in the field of administrative divisions.
Liu Junde, founding director of the China Administrative Division Research Center, pointed out that contemporary administrative division research should serve the construction of the country's modern governance system.
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The reporter learned on the 2nd that the first National Space Governance and Administrative Division Academic Conference (2020) brought together nearly 400 scholars from universities and scientific research institutes across the country to summarize the research progress and research in the field of national space governance and administrative division. The latest results.
It is understood that scholars have exchanged and discussed the contents of five themes of national space governance, administrative division optimization, administrative division adjustment, regional coordinated governance, and community governance.
At the seminar, Tao Xidong, a researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and a part-time researcher at the China Administrative Division Research Center, took the cross-border governance of the San Francisco Bay Area in the United States as an example, and proposed lessons for the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area under China’s “One Country, Two Systems” Suggest.
Associate Professor Zhang Weiyang of the China Administrative Division Research Center pays more attention to the adjustment of administrative divisions in border areas. From the perspective of multi-factor flow, he systematically explores the problem of cross-border flow in the border areas of the Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration, and proposes corresponding administrative division optimization and coordination Countermeasures and suggestions for governance.
Sun Bindong told reporters: "This seminar brings together experts and scholars in the fields of geography, political science, economics, public management, history, etc., to conduct academic discussions on the current national spatial governance and administrative divisions from the perspectives of different disciplines. It is of great significance for the establishment of theoretical research and deepening practical exploration of administrative divisions with Chinese characteristics."
Liu Junde, founding director of the China Administrative Division Research Center, pointed out that contemporary administrative division research should serve the construction of the country’s modern governance system. It is necessary to improve the discipline construction of political district geography, consolidate the theoretical foundation, scientifically evaluate the current administrative division system and model, and pay attention to cross-cutting. The issue of global space governance requires disciplinary cooperation based on geography.
Professor Jin Runcheng, former director of the Tianjin Education Commission and former principal of Tianjin Normal University, expressed in an interview that he hopes that the China Administrative Division Research Center will establish a database of urban administrative districts, strengthen research on the relationship between urban administrative districts and higher administrative districts, and strengthen district-level administrative divisions in large cities. Play a leading role in research and other aspects. (Finish)