Subdistrict Office Revoked The Feasibility Study

Sub-district offices have been agencies of municipal districts and cities not divided intodistricts for60years in China. Meanwhile, Sub-district offices play an important role incity’s developments. China’s urban management system has also been a "City-District-Street-Home" mode. In this mode, Sub-district offices are not entitled to a nominal power ofgovernment, but in fact exercise the functions of government, described as a misnomer. Withthe acceleration of urbanization, there are a lot of problems in urban management, the focalpoint of urban management gradually become downward, while the Sub-district offices haveincreasingly difficult to adapt to the needs of effective governance. Meanwhile, as grassrootsmanagement organizations, the problems of the sub-district offices management are alsoincreasingly prominent. In this context, revoking of sub-district offices, reducing the levelof urban management, achieving the government’s direct docking with large communities,have become the future direction of reform. More importantly, revoking district offices,establishing a larger community management model, are feasible from theory、practice andlegislation. However, from current status of China’s urban management, it is not reasonableto revoke the sub-district offices immediately and there are still many problems. To promoteneighborhood offices manage the smooth progress of reform, we must transform governmentfunctions, foster community organizations, achieve self-government and focus oncommunity-specific methods of operation Meanwhile, there are quite different all over thecountry, different cities have different economic and social development, they also facedifferent tasks and situations in urban management, so it should be encourage to explore andexperiment to summarize the experience and lessons in practice, avoiding unnecessary waste.Based on the comprehensive relevant scholars on evolution, problems, and other aspectsof the proposed reforms of Sub-district offices management system, the author cards thedevelopment of sub-district offices, points various institutional issues and problems inmanagement, summarizes and compares the current various modes of Sub-district offices,focuses on the necessity, feasibility, difficulties and crack ideas on revocation of theSub-district offices, to provide theoretical support and policy advice China’s Sub-district offices management system reform.