The Study On Villages’ Governance Models And Countermeasures In Hangzhou Westlake Scenic Area

The West Lake Scenic Area plays an important role for Hangzhou’s city image and urban development. To protect it, the local government has implemented a great significance plan which is Hangzhou West Lake Comprehensive Protection Project since the new century. The villages which have been well known both for its picturesque landscape and for cultural heritage surviving yet illustrating the past dynasties are one of the most parts of The West Lake Scenic Area. Protecting the villages is related to the protection and development of The West Lake Scenic Area. Form 2002 to 2012, the local government took a lot of measures to improve the villages’environment and public infrastructures which had achieve positive results and made the villages’features become brand-new.In 2011, The West Lake Scenic Area had been listed as the Word Cultural Heritage, which put forward a lot new requirements for the protection and governance for The West Lake Scenic Area. But in recent years, the villages in The West Lake Scenic Area come out some new problems which are unfavorable for the protection and sustainable development for The West Lake Scenic Area. So, in the later era of applying for word heritage, how should we do to manage the villages in the west lake scenic area?For this question, this article reviews the villages’management process since the new century at first, and let you know why they had to take the action to protect the villages in the 2002, who were the main administrators, what measures they had take, and how were the results on. And then, this article will elaborate the questions which have impeded the villages’sustainable development in The West Lake Scenic Area and find out the reasons. Finally, the article will put forward a lot of solution countermeasures which base on the managerial experiences from the governance of the villages in he West Lake Scenic Area since new century and the governance of the communities in the foreign national parks to let the villages keep sustained and healthy development.The largest characteristics of this article is basing on the management science and using the city governance theory to analyze questions in the villages inhe West Lake Scenic Area. The research of the perspectives, contents, methods have certain innovation. In the article, the new explanation of the concept of the villages in the scenic area and the summarizing of the villages governance models in the scenic area has certain theoretical values. The governance methods have great practical guiding significance for the villages’ sustainable development in the West Lake Scenic Area. the construction of the new socialist countryside, and the management of the city, etc.