论城市的性质与治理使命

On the Nature of the City and the Mission of Urban Governance

随着城市化的快速推进,城市治理在地方治理中的地位日益凸显。提高城市治理能力,既要创新城市治理制度,也要推进理论发展,深化对城市性质和治理使命的认知。从公共管理的视角看,城市是优质公共服务资源高度集聚的地理空间,城市治理的使命在于探寻有效的优质公共服务提供机制及可持续的财政收入筹集机制。在城乡关系上,政府治理有必要扭转"城乡公共服务均等化"的思维定势,树立平等赋权、底线保障、协商民主的新理念,政府的责任在于优化基本公共服务设施的空间布局,保障乡村居民也能享有不可或缺的基本公共服务,但这并不意味着城乡之间的公共服务供给可以实现均等化。

s： With the rapid development of urbanization, the status of urban governance has become increasingly prominent in local governance. In order to improve the capacity of urban governance, more needs to be done not only in innovating the structure of urban regimes, but also in developing the theories of urban governance to deepen the recognition and understanding of the nature of cities and the mission of urban govemancc. From the perspective of public administration, city can be defined as special geographical space which is concentrated with high-quality public service resources. The mission of urban governance is to explore the effective mechanism of public service delivery and the sustainable mechanism of sustainable financial growth. From the perspective of urban-rural relationship, the governments at all levels must reverse the mindset of ＂equalization of urban-rural public services supply＂, and to establish the new concept of equal empowerment of urban-rural factors of production, bottom line ,;afegnard of social security, and deliberative democracy in grassroots governance. Moreover, government is responsible for optimizing the spatial layout of basic public services, for proving essential public service for rural residents. This does not mean that public services between urban and rural areas achieve equal supply.