Abstract:

Party building leads the modernization of urban community-level governance. This is a crucial aspect of China’s continuing drive to modernization. Amidst further comprehensive reform, three Party-building requirements are crucial. 1) Ensuring the Party’s overall leadership over urban community-level governance through high-quality primary-level Party building. 2) Enhancing Party building’s leading role in improving the social governance system. 3) Enabling Party organizations at all levels to lead efficiency reforms at the primary level. These requirements can be met through strengthening the systematic development of urban primary-level Party building; enhancing the Party’s role in building a robust urban primary-level governance community; and upgrading the mindset and capabilities of Party members and cadres. Party building that leads the modernization of urban primary-level governance can be accomplished by establishing the institutional framework of the Party’s overall leadership over primary-level governance with systematic thinking; optimizing the urban primary-level Party organizations’ operational mechanisms for quality and efficiency; building capacity among urban primary-level cadres and Party members; and, leveraging smart Party building to expand the space for upgrading urban community-level governance.

Key words: further deepening reform comprehensively, Party leadership, Party building leading, urban primary-level Party building, modernization of primary-level governance