City is the collecting centre of advanced productive forces; urbanization is the main carrier of social civilization and advancement. To carry out the strategy that urban development must be continues is the main melody of urban development, the level of urban construction directly affects the level of its economic development, the towns people' s living conditions and the continues urban development. To speed the process of urbanization in our country is needed by development of national economy. On one hand, at urbanization the quickening of process, city increase by quantity and the enlargements of scale, Among national economy outstanding day by day leading statuses require the government to change the function urgent more and more urban economy, Give full play to the function of the city. It is according to the request for socialist market economy mainly to change the government function, Revitalize and disposes the economic management function of the government, change and realize the function means and way of the government, Sound with the economic management function and operating mechanism of government that are perfected newly. On the other hand, the economic globalization has pushed the city to the most forward position of international competition; the competition among countries develops into the competition among enterprises, competition among the city. This new competition pattern require city take and at enterprise, offer the abundant public service to the society not merely by government, And should offer more abundant, more effective public service with the lowest cost. These new situation require city regard improving the synthesized competitiveness of city as starting point carry on city manage the brand-new changes of idea by government.Urban management not only requires government to treat the city asgreat state-owned assets, but also requires government to make sure that it' s not a merely government act, but a kind of economy act by way of the scientific management of urban planning, construction and administration. To carry out the strategy of urban management is the only way of constructing cities, perfecting urban functions and developing urban economy, which makes urban government fit-in with the transformation of national economic system.Implementing the city to manage, it is our country that is made the transition the theory of urban planning, construction, management in the course to the market economic system by planned economic system and innovates, and it is the theory that makes to the national conditions of our country that is summarized. Use economy to expand the city size, strengthen the economic strength of city, must insist on the theory that is " based on people" , Manage wholly, implement the sustainable development strategy in the city.This text has introduced the theoretical foundation that the city manages at first. City management is system engineering; involve administrative division, city in charge of cure, city economics, sustainable development, competitiveness, etc. of city theory. On the basis of relevant theory, analyzes the subject, object and ways of the city management; then introduces three kinds of urban management modes in Shanghai, Dalian and Qingdao; introduces the new things and new situations appearing in the course of managing of city at last. |