With their expansion and increasing population, Chinese cities have to advance management to support people's life and production, where the community plays an increasingly important role.
Municipal employees have to not only take responsibility for implementing policies but also highlight residents' problems to help the government improve its work. Enhancing functions is critical in many spheres, including garbage sorting, the transformation of old residential areas and building "life circles" providing daily necessities and services to people in communities.
With urban problems growing more complex, urban management has to adopt innovative methods. In the 5G era, advanced technologies, including big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, have advantages over traditional means in collecting data, trend prediction and resource scheduling.
Changing the old order in cities facing new emerging problems requires urban management to come up with a flexible and targeted solution. For instance, it is unrealistic to build more parking lots in cities with limited space though the number of private cars is still growing. So some cities have designed a mechanical parking system.
The ultimate purpose of urban management is to serve residents. Therefore, self-governance at the community level should be fully implemented assimilating suggestions form the people. The mode will become a supplement for self-management by residents.
This is an edited excerpt of an article originally published in People's Daily on July 6
(Print Edition Title: Urban Management)
