Citizen Participation Study In Urban Governance Of Nanjing

Urban governance will affect our life quality and affect the future of the city. With the deepening of democracy and political reform, the demand of citizen participation in urban governance is higher and higher. As the core and essence of public governance, citizen participation in city governance becomes the implied warranty to safeguard citizen’s interests. It has been the inevitable method of urban governance and the way to realize the fairness. However, the big government management model also faces severe challenges during the transition period. Broad participation of citizens in urban governance has become an inevitable trend to promote social progress and development. Therefore, it is necessary to fully enhance the Enhance the awareness of citizens’ participation, to improve participate ability, to perfect the participation system, to broaden the channels and means of civic participation and deepening the reform of city government functions.Based on this, many cities in China have made a lot of useful attempt and also some progress has been made already, be that as it may, problems still exist, citizen participation in governance still in low level, and participation effect isn’t good enough, for instance. Combined with the case of citizen participation in urban governance in Nanjing, and Learn from the successful experience of foreign countries, this paper discusses the status and problems of citizen participation in urban governance, analyze the reasons and proposed countermeasures and suggestions to improve the level of citizen participation in urban governance.