A Research On Collaborative Governance In Urba N And Rural Grassroots For New Urbanisation

The reform and opening up policy has been carried out in China for more than 30 years where China’s urbanization development has made remarkable achievements. In 2014, the government has issued the New National Urbanization Development Strategy (2014-2020) where new arrangements has been made to develop new urbanization in China and also to provide profound basis to promote urbanization locally. Overall, it emphasized on people-orientation, four modernizations synchronization, layout optimization, ecological civilization, and cultural heritage promotion. Meanwhile, the local governments are carrying forward the new urbanization proactively. Many provinces, cities, and autonomous regions have been generating the strategy customized to actual situation and development degree.Collaborative governance is a new concept to deal with complicated social issues effectively based on the national situation in China. In regard to developing the new urbanization, the government should adopt such method as collaborative governance. Specifically, it has to establish an interconnection between government regulatory mechanism and social coordination mechanism, to complement government administrative function with social autonomy function, to interact between government supervision and social mediation forces. Such collaborative governance will establish the public administration and public service system. Based on the strategy mentioned above, this dissertation explores the governance issue for urban and rural grassroots in the promotion procedure of new urbanization from the perspective of collaborative governance. By using a combination of empirical research and theoretical research methodology, this study employs data and information from the survey carried out in several cities in Shangdong Province.The dissertation contains 6 chapters.Chapter 1 is the introduction. Firstly, it explains the resource, the background and the significance of this research. Then three key concepts are introduced and defined. To name it, they are new urbanization, urban and rural grassroots, and collaborative governance. Moreover, the research ideas, methodology, framework, and innovative purpose are illustrated.Chapter 2 emphasizes on literature review and practice review. Both home and abroad research regarding new urbanization are looked through in the first place, followed by a study on the literature about collaborative governance worldwide. The last part in this chapter concludes with an overall review.Chapter 3 explains the research design and data collection. It illustrates the research project and introduces the sample selection and data collection concept. In this study, the simple random sampling method is implemented to define the survey scope. There were 200 surveys handed out where 134 were collected as valid surveys. Theses valid surveys are the data resource for statistic analysis.Chapter 4 proceeds with statistic analysis and result. SPSS statistical software is employed in this study. By adopting descriptive analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, frequency analysis, and regression analysis, the study carries out a quantitative analysis of the surveys. Afterwards, an integrated application of empirical and normative analysis is used to analyze and interpret the survey results.Chapter 5 contains result discussion and policy proposal. After a discussion about the previous statistical result, this part proposes collaborative governance as the approach to improve urban and rural grassroots governance in four aspects, namely the governance concept of establishing community-orientation, democratic nomocracy, and balanced development system, the collaborative strategy of enhancing and regulating governance of urban and rural grassroots, and the cooperative mechanism of building up urban and rural grassroots governance.Chapter 6 concludes with a summary and prospect for this research. Mainly there are three aspects of the research result. Firstly, it finds out the basic situation of cities promoting new urbanization; secondly, it defines the critical issues in urban and rural grassroots governance in this process; thirdly, it proposes the collaborative governance strategy to improve the situation. In the end, limitations of this research as well as future research direction are elaborated.There are three innovations in this research. The first innovation lies in the research perspective. After a literature search online in the China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database, the writer noticed that there has been few research about collaborative governance in urban and rural grassroots governance regarding new urbanization. Therefore, the research perspective is quite new. The second innovative part is the research methodology. In this study, an integrating method of normative analysis, empirical analysis, and system analysis is employed, emphasizing on field research, collective discussion, and the data and information from sampling survey. It elaborates the status of urban and rural collaborative governance and cooperation between the variables, which has been quite rarely noticed in domestic academia. Last but not least, the proposed strategy is the third innovation. Based on the results analysed quantitively and qualatively, the writer put forward the governance concept of establishing community-orientation, democratic nomocracy, and balanced development system, the collaborative strategy of enhancing and regulating governance of urban and rural grassroots, and the cooperative mechanism of building up urban and rural grassroots governance. Such proposal is innovative as well as applicable.