生态文明时期的城市竞争力提升与城市治理探索

EXPLORATION ON STRENGTHENING CITY COMPETITIVENESS AND IMPROVING URBAN GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF ECOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION

在本采访中,受访人叶裕民首先对"城市经济学""城市经济""产业结构升级"等常见的经济学概念进行了厘清,并指出当前中国城镇化要以人民得到最广泛、最大幅度的发展为核心任务,积累人力资本,优化劳动力结构,从而支撑产业结构持续升级,培育新动能。她同时认为,在生态文明时期,城市规划者和设计者的职责是通过创造包容性的城市更新和城市设计,帮助城市提高竞争力。她继而强调,中国的大部制改革符合时代的需求,也是提高国家未来整体竞争力、维护城市公共利益的必然选择。最后,叶裕民阐明了自上而下的管理模式与自下而上的治理模式的适用范畴,认为目前中国政府和社会资本合作项目出现的种种问题,根源都在于合作双方缺乏诚信,而根本的解决途径之一则是建立完善的诚信制度,以明确双方的信用权责。

In this interview, Ye Yumin, the interviewee, first clarifies basic concepts of Economics such as Urban Economics, a city’s economy, and industrial structure upgrading, and points out that, to most Chinese cities, the failure of industrial structure upgrading and new driving force fostering largely is due to their inadequate labor force structure. She argues that today’s primary task of China’s urbanization is to ensure people’s overall well-being, encourage their activity and cultivate talents, accumulating human capital to support the continuous upgrading of industrial structure and developing new driving forces. Ye further argues that, in the age of Ecological Civilization, urban planners and designers play an important role in strengthening cities’ competitiveness with inclusive renewal and design concepts, while highlighting that China’s new reform of a SuperMinistry System is in line with contemporary needs to improve the overall competitiveness of the country in the future and to safeguard the public interests. Finally, by recognizing the application scopes of the both topdown Management mode and bottom-up Governance mode, Ye articulates that all problems in China’s PPP cases are caused by the poor credibility of both public and private parties, and a sound credibility system and mechanism is urgently required, which would define duties of both parties.