Shanghai Governance and Democracy

Author: Guo Dingping
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Since the reform and opening-up, Shanghai has not only achieved remarkable accomplishments in economic and social modernization but also made significant reforms and innovations in political development and the construction of political civilization. In essence, its experience lies in moving towards democracy through optimizing governance while maintaining a reasonable balance between optimized governance and gradual democracy. Given Shanghai's pioneering role in China's modernization process, this experience undoubtedly offers great inspiration and reference for China's future development of socialist democratic politics and the construction of socialist political civilization. This book scientifically, accurately, and objectively analyzes and explores the winding path, lessons learned, challenges, and prospects of Shanghai's political development and the construction of political civilization since the reform and opening-up. Specific contents include the historical and temporal context of Shanghai's political development, the reform of the Party and government system and the optimization of government governance, the implementation of rule of law in urban governance and the construction of political civilization, the establishment and improvement of the government decision-making consultation system, the scientific and democratic development of public decision-making, the development of community construction and urban grassroots democracy, the scientific and democratic development of citizen decision-making, the improvement of citizen quality and the enhancement of citizen democratic and rule-of-law awareness, as well as the characteristics and significance of Shanghai's political development and the construction of political civilization.