TITLE:
The Study of New Model for Urban Governance in Guangzhou
AUTHORS:
Jie Qu
KEYWORDS:
Urban Governance, Public Participation, The Public Advisory Committee
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.5 No.2,
January
25,
2017
ABSTRACT: With the development of China’s economy and society, citizens have strong will to participate in urban governance, but the failure of public participation has occurred occasionally. As one of the central cities in China, Guangzhou has taken the lead in embarking urban governance reformation, and set up a public advisory committee among the people’s livelihood projects to coordinate the relationship among all interests’ parties. This diversified participatory governance model has achieved significant results in practice, but also encountered new resistance. The paper explores the reasons why the Public Advisory Committee (CPA) model is hindered in other livelihood projects and puts forward some countermeasures to optimize the urban governance reform in Guangzhou.