On The Role And Position Of The Sub-district Office In City Management

City management is of great significance to the development of cities. The rapid development of China's urbanization has provided city management practice and research with unforeseen opportunitie, but it has also brought many new problems and chanllenges to city mangagemnt. How to effectively approach these problems and chanllenges will have considerable impacts on China's city development and the construction of harmonious society. The new situation of city management requires that we should constantly create new conceptions and mechanism of city management, seek new approaches to city mangements, and establish a city management model that can meet the requirements of the people.City management in China has gone through a series of reforms, among which the downward movement of focus of city management is one of the most important. Owing to the the downward shift of mangagement center, the Sub-district office has bestowed an extremely important foundational position in the system of city management. Under the guidance of the people-oriented principle, Zhenxing Sub-distrcit Office of Jinan has made a series of explorations of city management, putting forth the "refined people-oriented model of city management.With modern theories of city management as theoretical reference, this research is intended to make a thorough investigation of the approaches to city management adopted by Zhenxin Sub-distrcit Office, with a view to shed light on China's reforms of city management.