A Study On The Reformation Of Sub-district Adminitrative Organizational Systems In Large And Medium-sized Cities Since The New Century

As the new century, the urbanization in China has been deepening gradually, bringing about entirely new prospects for the basic administrative systems in urban areas. On the one hand, notable changes has been taking place in the urban and rural areas, leading to the profound changes of basic administrative systems in urban areas in geographical space and the units'properties. On the other hand, community construction has been launched on a nationwide scale and vigorous development has been taking place, bringing new opportunities and challenges to the cities'basic administration. In this context, the reformation of the sub-district administrative organizational systems becomes the one of the essential problems in the development of cities at the grassroots levels. With full consideration on the realistic background of the reformation of cities'governments and the growth of cities and towns, this article sketched out the outline of the development of the sub-district administrative organizational systems through a general survey of a large number of sample cities. The spatial evolvement mechanisms, functional transformation patterns, and agencies optimization patterns of the sub-district administrative organizational systems were studied emphatically, with a view of providing useful lessons for the further reformation of sub-district administrative organizational systems and development of cities at the grassroots levels.This article contains five chapters:ChapterⅠintroduced the background of the reformation of the sub-district administrative organizational systems, and summarized the relevant research achievements in 3 main aspects:the evolvement of cities'low-level management, the functional transformation and the system innovations of the sub-district administrative organizational systems. And then, raised the crucial questions and established the research framework. Finally, explained the research thoughts'source, the selection of sample cities, the information source and some other aspects.ChapterⅡsketched out the outline of the development of the sub-district administrative organizational systems. Firstly, concluded the spatial characteristics and category features; secondly, focused on the research of the sub-district administrative organizational systems in the county and some other special areas; finally, summarized the patterns and meanings of the diversion from townships and towns to the sub-district administrative organizational systems.Chapter III focused on the reformation of the sub-district administrative organizational systems in the perspective of spatial dimensions. The evolvement mechanisms of the spatial patterns was classified into 5 categories:(1) the cities' space strategies laid the foundations of the frameworks of the spatial patterns; (2) the changes of administrative centers catalyzed the evolvement; (3) the promotion mechanisms of the urban development; (4) the demand mechanisms of the optimization distribution of the management and service resources; (5) the limitation mechanisms of the natural or human factors. The article explored the action processes of the above five mechanisms with detailed analysis of the realistically typical cases. Moreover, an interpretation of the comprehensive action processes of the above five mechanisms was delivered with comprehensive case study.Chapter IV focused on the systems and functions of the sub-district offices. With a summarization of the changes in the functions of the sub-district offices, the article analyzed the different strategies in this changes, and classified the changes into 3 models:the additive model, the subtractive model, and the work focus shift model. And then, summarized the corresponding models of the sub-district offices' organization settings optimization:assimilation to the governments'organization settings, subtraction and integration of the economic organizations. Finally, discussed the related guarantee mechanisms.Chapter V is the conclusion of this article. This Chapter summarized the main points, and made a reasonable prospect for the further study of this topic:the relationship between the development of the sub-district administrative organizational systems and the models of regional economy development.