Abstract:

The report to the Party’s 20th National Congress set out the mission and task of comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-style modernization. It provides new strategic guidance and a knowledge framework for the practical innovation of, and theoretical research on, promoting the modernization of social governance. As the most innovative experience of grassroots social governance, it contains more theoretical growth and innovation space. This paper focuses on some basic, critical and forward-looking issues in grassroots social governance. This includes governance system innovation, digital platform economic governance, social governance modernization of human transformation and the Chinese style of modernization of the village foundation and other dimensions of the discussion. Since the reform and opening up, many institutional innovations in grassroots social governance have emerged, many have been short-lived, but some are continuing, deepening, and spreading. Exploring the internal logic contained in them is still a key issue. In terms of how to view and govern the digital platform economy, it is urgent to get rid of the old governance concept and knowledge paradigm. It is necessary to fully tap the new value of the digital economy to enhance the society, so as to better provide constructive policies for digital construction and governance. In practice, promoting Chinese-style modernization should focus on social governance such that it not only “deals with things”, but also “educates people”, and effectively assumes the important historical mission of “human transformation”. Imagining the future pattern of grassroots governance in China’s rural society means developing a view of the village community. Will it be open or closed? The different attitudes and choices will have a huge and profound impact on rural social governance structure and governance mechanisms. It is expected that the academic community will continue to pay attention and discuss further.

Key words: sinicism modernization, system innovation, digital platform economy, human modernization, village mode