街道办事处:国家与社会良性互动的“接点”

Sub-district Offices: A Node of Benign Interaction between the State and the Society

当下推进基层治理需将政府行政管理与社会自我管理紧密结合,而街道办事处在国家与社会良性关系的构建中发挥了"接点"的作用,兼顾"承上"与"启下"的双重功能。所谓"承上",位于政府行政管理体系的末梢,上承政府,以代理人的角色推动国家自上而下对社会的嵌入,引导和组织自我管理;所谓"启下",与广大基层群众联系最为密切与贴近,下接基层社会、社区,是基层群众利益诉求表达的代表人,助力基层社会向国家自下而上的利益聚合。为更好地构建国家与社会的良性互动,街道办事处需扮演并诠释好政策的落实者、公共服务的组织者、群众的发动者、基层自治制度的供给者以及社会资本的培育者五大角色。

At present, to promote rural governance, we must combine public administration and social self-management closely. Sub-district offices play the role of being a node of benign interaction between the state and the society and serve as a connecting link between the preceding and the following. On the one hand, sub-district offices lie at the end of the government’s administrative system, connecting the government and promoting the embedding of the state from top to bottom as the agent to guide and organize self-management. On the other hand, sub-district offices keep close ties with the masses and connect grassroots society and community. They are representative of grassroots people and help grassroots society to converge their interests from bottom to top. In order to better construct and facilitate the positive interaction between the state and the society, sub-district offices should play and interpret the five roles of implementing policies, organizing public services, mobilizing the masses, providing grass-roots self-government system and cultivating social capital.