Recent years, with the accelerated urbanization process in Shanghai's suburbs, permanent resident population and its spatial distribution had changed significantly. The co-existence phenomenon of geographic area, grass-roots systems and lifestyles between urbanization and rural areas forced sharp expansion of social governing scope and range at the town-level. The traditional and single mode of social governance and community governance at the town-level is no longer adapt to development demands under new circumstance. Under this background, a few districts and towns in Shanghai's suburbs have adopted town governing community mode since 1993. The town government fully demonstrate its authority through establishing platforms of management, service and co-governance, and provides public services efficiently and fully combine resources to achieve community governance.With comparing the traditional domestic community governing modes with the present community governing modes in Shanghai's suburbs, this paper illustrates the necessity, feasibility and scientific of this innovative community governing mode's adaption to the rapid urbanization areas in Shanghai's suburbs. As taking Jiading New City as the typical case, this paper adopted methods of literature analysis and empirical analysis to study in its organization structure, operation mechanism and finally concluded the achievements.Based on theories of governance, new public management and multi-management, this paper explores to refine paths and methods of town governing community mode while aiming at problems facing town governing community mode in Jiading New City. The paper puts forward 5 suggestions such as accelerating establishment of middle government level, forming the format of multigoverning, improving organization systems, emphasizing community's self governing functions and strengthening guarantee mechanisms. |