Shanghai Community Cooperative Governance Mechanism

Chinese residents in urban communities has been living an increasingly better life since the reform and opening up. Therefore, their demands tend to be more diversified. The function of community has shown its importance further, which makes the government and the whole society pay more attention to it. As the crucial basis of governmental administrative layout, urban community management is directly relevant to the social control and the realization of social innovation in the city. Nowadays, to build a harmonious society is not only the requirement of the state’s macro-policy, but the certain trend of times as well. We need to innovate the run of power in urban community management, so as to better satisfy the residents’demands and to optimize the resource allocation. For the promotion of socialism harmonious society, we must break a new way of community building and management, which is the model of’government leading, cooperative governance, and public participation’. Alignment of interest emerges in this background. Government, enterprises and other organizations align to realize the common interest of community through cooperative governance in urban communities. Their motivation is driven by benefits, which means all kinds of safeguard mechanisms are necessary for the cooperative governance in urban communities.Aimed at researching into the cooperative governance in urban communities, the paper combs the theory and its development of urban community management, and analyzes the basic theory and operation of cooperative governance. Then the innovation and trend of the cooperative governance in urban communities is discussed with real cases.The paper deeply analyzes the basic theory, legitimacy, origin and forming of mechanism of cooperative governance through systematic study. It also discussed the mechanism of political power and the issue of cooperative governance in the urban area. Finally, the paper effectively verifies the theory of mechanism of cooperative governance, which provides solutions that are worth considering to future important and difficult issues in communities.