Research On Power And Function Configuration Of The Sub-district Office

The sub-district office is an organ of the local government dispatched, playing a very important part in the urban grassroots governance system.It is a part of the system of the state administrative power and combinesfunctions of the social organization. The sub-district office exercise power reasonably, as is the key to improve the urban grassroots governance.In the past half a century, the sub-district officehas formed a relatively stable structure and behavior patterns.With the rapid advance of urbanization, the sub-district office encounters lots of troubles in urban grassroots governance. Expansion of cities,development of urban democracy and the remains of the unit system reform, which are challenging the reasonable allocation of sub-district office power. The disadvantages of sub-district office itself hinder its development seriously. So,lots of local government has carried on the reform to the sub-district, by reshaping the structure of it, such as Lu Gu, Tong Ling, and Jiang Han. These have different characteristics, are good tries in reforms. Through the analysis of several reforms, we can find different reforms have the same characteristics on the direction, content and way. These reforms with distinguishing features provide beneficial experience for the nationwide reform on the sub-district office.Under the new situation, the urban grassroots governance requires that the disadvantages of the old system must be abolished and the power structure must be optimized. The traditional sub-district office should be reformed to bea main body of urban grassroots governancein the modern city. Following the principle of the reasonable allocation of sub-district office power and handling the relationship between himself and sub-district office, and the government, communities, and social organizations, and the resident units, the sub-district office should play an important role in Promoting diversification of urban governance bodies, building interest coordination platform, and contributing to the joint action, as will promote the development of urban grassroots governance.