Autonomy Of China's Urban Residents

Community residents' self-governance is kind of democratic form, by which the urban residents can directly manage the social basic-level public affairs according to the law. And it is also the broad practice of socialist basic-level democracy in cities.With the development of urban community, community residents' self-governance originated from 1990s. As the realization form of urban basic-level democracy, it grew out of the residents' self-governance in the city basic-level governance systems that integrated the unit system and the system of sub-district offices and residents' committees. The origination of community residents' self-governance in 1990s is with the deep history background and social base, which is the logic result of urban economic system developing constantly and vertically, and which is the inevitable outcome of the changes in state democratic process and urban basic-level governance style.Community residents' self-governance is the basic-level mass self-governance and its subjects are the residents. They exercise the self-governing activities, execute the self-governing rights depending on all kinds of organizations. Carrying out community residents' self-governance means to change the former single residents' committees system, bring forth new ideas in organization forms and systems, and form new subject system of community self-governing organization according to establishing the organs such as community residents' conference, community coordination committees and community committees. And it also means to deal with the relationship between the community self-governing organizations and other organizations such as community party organizations, proprietors' committees, property management companies and community intermediary organizations, so that establish a well and mutually beneficial ecological system of community self-governing organizations.As the direct democracy for the city residents to participate the social affairs management at the grassroots level, community residents' self-governance mainly includes democratic election, democratic decision-making, democratic management and democratic supervision. In theprocess of promoting the 'four democracies' especial the democratic election, it makes an active and helpful explorations which greatly enrich the community residents self-governing practices, and embody a kind of regulationized and procedurized democratic governing process.Community self-governing organizations link government and community residents both functionally and in staff structures, which are the bridges linking government and residents. So, how to deal with the relationships between the them just becomes the two hardest problems: 1) how to straighten out relationships between government and community; 2) how to arouse the enthusiasm of the community residents.The initial practice of community residents' self-governance not only produces direct effect on stabilizing urban society, promoting residents' qualities and developing spiritual civilization but also greatly influences the socialist democratic and politic developments in our country and will influence them deeply. As a newborn thing, urban community residents' self-governance is still in the initial stage. Along with the process of the development of the economic and democratization, the community residents' self-governance will take on a look of vigor.