Integration Practices of Social Organizations Participating in Grassroots Governance
摘要
With the accelerated advancement of China's social and economic system transformation, the state's attention to the social field is increasing day by day, and the role of social organizations is increasingly highlighted. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, innovative social governance has become a powerful driving force for promoting sustainable social development and has clearly proposed to fully leverage the positive role of social organizations in social governance, enhance their ability to participate in public services and grassroots governance, and accelerate the construction of a modern social organization system characterized by the separation of government and society, clear rights and responsibilities, and legal autonomy. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly proposed to create a social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, promoting the participation of multiple entities in social governance practices, strengthening the construction of social governance systems, and improving the socialization, legalization, intelligence, and specialization of social governance. It also proposed accelerating the separation of government and society, stimulating the vitality of social organizations, overcoming the tendency of administrativeization of social organizations, and further shifting the focus of social governance to the grassroots level, leveraging the role of social organizations to achieve a positive interaction between government governance and social regulation, and residents’ self-governance. In 2017, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued the “Opinions on Vigorously Cultivating and Developing Community Social Organizations” (hereinafter referred to as the “Opinions”), proposing overall requirements and deployment for cultivating and developing community social organizations. It is evident that reforming and optimizing the governance functions of social organizations is of significant value and importance for promoting the transformation of government functions and collaborative governance between government and society. It is an important part of deepening the reform of Party and state institutions and advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The “Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions” in 2018 emphasized the need to stimulate the vitality of mass organizations and social organizations and promote the reform of social organizations. This clearly Chapter 6: Integration Practices of Social Organizations Participating in Grassroots Governance 105 proposed the necessity, urgency, and reality of reforming the social organization system in the new era.