Innovate Social Governance System

It is one of the major strategic tasks proposed by the “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform” adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. The “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform” adopted by the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee in 2013 put forward the major strategic task of innovating the social governance system, systematically expounded on how to innovate the social governance system from such aspects as improving social governance methods, stimulating the vitality of social organizations, innovating effective prevention and resolving social contradictions, and improving public security systems, marking that CPC’s understanding and requirements of social governance have moved from partial to systematic. The idea and goal of innovating the social governance system is to focus on safeguarding the fundamental interests of the vast majority of the people, maximizing the harmonious factors, enhancing the vitality of social development, improving the level of social governance, comprehensively promoting the building of a Safe China, and ensuring that the people live and work in peace and order. The purpose is to uphold and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics. Innovating the social governance system is also restricted and regulated by this purpose.

To innovate the social governance system, we need to do a good job in the following aspects:

Improve the way of social governance and achieve “four adherences”: Firstly, adhere to systematic governance, strengthen the leadership of the Party committee, give play to the leading role of the government, encourage and support participation of all quarters of the society, and realize the benign interaction between government governance and social self-regulation and residents' self-governance. Secondly, adhere to the rule of law, strengthen the guarantee of the rule of law, and leverage the rule of law thinking and law-based means to resolve social conflicts. Thirdly, adhere to comprehensive governance, strengthen moral constraints, regulate social behavior, regulate interest relations, coordinate social relations, and solve social issues. Fourthly, adhere to governance at the source, address both symptoms and root causes, and focus on addressing the root causes, take grid management and socialized services as the direction, improve the grassroots comprehensive service management platform, and timely reflect and coordinate the interests of the people at all levels.

Stimulate the vitality of social organizations: Firstly, correctly handle the relationship between the government and society, accelerate the implementation of the separation of government and society, and promote social organizations to clarify powers and responsibilities, exercise autonomy according to law, and play a role. Relevant public services and matters shall be provided and solved by social organizations. Secondly, support and develop voluntary service organizations. Realize the real decoupling of the industry associations and chambers of commerce and administrative agencies within a time limit, focus on cultivating and giving priority to the development of industry association, chamber of commerce, technology, public welfare and charity, and urban and rural community service social organizations, allowing them to apply directly for registration according to law. Thirdly, strengthen the management of social organizations and non-governmental organizations outside China, and guide them to carry out activities in accordance with the law.

Innovate effective prevention and resolve social contradictions, and improve the five major mechanisms: Firstly, improve the risk assessment mechanism for major decisions and social stability. Secondly, establish a smooth and orderly concern expression mechanism. Thirdly, improve the trial mechanism for administrative review cases. Fourthly, establish a comprehensive mechanism for reconciliation and resolution of conflicts and disputes. Fifthly, improve the mechanism for timely and timely settlement of reasonable concerns of the masses.

Improve the public security system and establish two kinds of thinking: One is systematic thinking, which requires the establishment of a comprehensive public security system and the establishment of security prevention and control systems covering food and drug safety, production safety, social security, cybersecurity and national security. Secondly, integrate thinking, set up a national security committee, establish a public security system, carry out system reforms, integrate social resources and forces in terms of organizational structures, systems and systems, and guarantee national security and other security. Innovating the social governance system embodies the Marxist mass views, the continuous deepening of CPC’s understanding of the law of socialist construction with Chinese characteristics, and the ideas and proposition of multi-Party participation and joint governance under the leadership of the Party.