Abstract:

As an emerging paradigm in the evolution of social governance, the Chinese governance model reflects both the universal contradictions arising from technological rationalization in modernity and the distinctive Chinese characteristics shaped by institutional superiority and practical innovations. Herbert Marcuse's one-dimensional society theory reveals the mechanisms through which technological domination suppresses social complexity through temporal-spatial compression. His dimensional thinking provides theoretical inspiration for constructing three-dimensional governance. Temporality manifests in dynamic processes including social morphology evolution, governance target alignment, and cyclical operational mechanisms, whereas spatiality embodies structural features such as material configurations, conceptual expressions, and organizational hierarchies. Through the dual effects of temporal-spatial compression (homogenizing governance elements to enhance efficiency) and temporal-spatial expansion (activating pluralistic social vitality), technology reconstructs social order while simultaneously imposing risks of administrative alienation and social fragmentation. Globally, traditional governance models predominantly employ temporal-spatial compression to mitigate large-scale governance burdens, often at the cost of diminishing value rationality and breeding mechanical governance patterns. Confronting escalating governance complexity and technological revolution, China's approach emphasizes multidimensional temporal-spatial dialectics under socialist institutional advantages. By strategically integrating institutional optimization, value guidance, and technological virtuousness, China is pioneering a Multi-dimensional Governance framework characterized by “compression-expansion coordination, dimensional permeability, expansion prioritization, and dynamic equilibrium maintenance,” effectively reconciling efficiency-demanding order maintenance and diversity-driven vitality stimulation. This governance innovation presents a pathway for mitigating the dimensional compression challenges observed in modernization, while simultaneously providing conceptual resources rooted in Chinese institutional praxis to navigate beyond the constraints of One-dimensional Governance paradigms prevalent in our intelligence-driven epoch.

Key words: multi-dimensional governance, social governance, temporal-spatial dimension, technological embeddedness