A Comparative Study Of Dalian And Kobe In City Management

With the deepening of the reform and opening-up and the speeding up of the urbanization, city management is no longer an unfamiliar term in China. It has gone through 20 years since Dalian took the lead to carry out city management in the early 90s of last century. During the last two decades, city management has extended at the beginning of the urban construction financing to more widely and subtle aspects, such as the urban environmental construction, the image of the city maintenance and construction of public welfare. With the practice of city management going on, the theories of city management explored by the domestic scholars are increasing. Mainly include the concept, subject, object, principles, methods of city management, etc., which guide the practice of city management in China Unfortunately, at a large number of the study in city management, the study of inter-city comparative is very lack. There is only a small number of scholars study on it and mainly concentrated in the domestic cities which carry out city management, nevertheless, the international inter-city comparison of city management is even more rarely.The dissertation is a comparative research on international inter-city of City management which is based on urban development strategies. The selected cities are separately Dalian and Kobe, which are the first cities carried out city management strategy to practice in their countries. In this dissertation, the comparison of the two cities is of various economic civilization and social context in two countries, at different times. The comparison will use the basic knowledge of municipal administration and city management, starting from the role and the functions of the two cities government in their city management, according to the practice which the two cities are carried on. Using the combination of the qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis set up the basic framework of the dissertation. Emphasis on the city management is the result of the output under the guidance of the Government policies; it is a kind of means which the government uses to realize the optimal allocation of urban resources in the market-oriented way.Firstly, The dissertation analysis the comparability and similarity of two cities which to explain the context and writing reason of the dissertation, Proceeding With natural conditions, population, historical culture, socio-economic conditions and respective position in their between the two countries. Then combination with management profile of the cities, description of the general content, start time, implementation steps, the achievements in their city management which is pointed out the reasons for the comparison were the result of the Interaction between two cities conditions in natural history and city development strategies, then make the literature review of city management in domestic aspects, and set out the framework of comparative analysis of the dissertation.The second part of the dissertation mainly describes the theoretical framework of city management, including four aspects such as the theoretical basis of city management, the meaning of city management, the constituent elements of city management and the characteristics of city management. Pointed out that city management is a product of mutual coordination between the government and the market under the theory of modern market economy, its meaning lies in play the basic role of the market in allocation of urban resources, break out the monopoly supply of public goods in the cities of inefficiency which brought by the government, treatment of"market failure". At the same time, use the government's active intervention and formulate the correct urban strategy to teat the confusion caused by the weakness of the market, such as the blindness, the spontaneity and the lag, which is realized the most optimal allocation of city resources and achieved social fairness that achieved the sustainable development of the city ultimately. City management must pay attention to the overall urban development, long-term urban development and the dynamic nature in the course of implemented strategy, which means that the content and the steps of city management must be based on environmental changes both inside and outside the city, also adjust to meet the needs of urban development timely. Finally contact writing subject of the dissertation, on the basis of understanding the meaning, principles and objectives of city management to sum up the characteristics of city management. Provide the theoretical basis of two cities for the next systematic comparison.The third part of dissertation is the Systematic comparison of two cities, which based on basic conditions and theory of management between Dalian and Kobe. The comparison mainly involved in the concepts of city management, the subject of city management and the contents of the city management, etc., in the Comparison of the concepts of city management, the dissertation will compare the similarities and differences in business strategy of two cities which is beginning from the city planning and urban-targeted; the subject of city management comparative mainly refers to the status and role of their city government and the role-playing of their citizens and businesses in the city management respectively, etc., the contents of the city management related to city land, public infrastructure and intangible assets, as well as city specific aspects of city promotion. Through analysis the article get that: The two cities city management strategies are based on familiar with their city and according to the characteristics of their city respectively, the Government has played an important role in regulating the management, their breakthrough is their land management and public utilities to invigorate the development of financial. At the latter city management, they were devoted to setting up the construction the city image and the city promotion. The most basic principle of two cities management is people-oriented, optimize the allocation of resources, and improve the public welfare and standard of living. But the two cities have characteristics at a specific business strategy; they took a different investment and financing mechanisms, different method of land management and different government roles. By the system comparison of the above-mentioned, summarizing every aspect of the same and the different points of two cities in city management to identify the similarities in personality, and come to the follow conclusion.Finally, According to the above system comparison of two cities, the dissertation will analysis the characteristics of their city management and the same point, understand the relationship between the different forms of existence respectively and found the common type. Summing up the city management must be pay attention to converse the functions of city government, study on updating the past financial concepts, people-centered. Underling the application circumstantial of the self-development of the city steps clearly and does it orderly. To summary the investigation of regulation of city management, providing theoretical guidance and practical experience for urbanization construction and city management practice of china in the new period.