Beyond Tradition:The Emergence of City Establishment and the Future of Establishing the System of Township Zoning——An Observation and Reflection on the Transition of Longgang from Township to City
At present, establishing the organizational system of township zoning is characterized by three main features:the de facto delegation of political authority, the sheet-shaped planarization of zoning division, and the differentiation in organizational system establishment. These features highlight the drawbacks of Such a mode of township establishment. The"city"system in the sense of zoning organizational system has evolved into a new mode of city establishment represented by the transition of Longgang in Zhejiang from township to city, which has brought a great impact on establishing the organizational system of township zoning at the grassroots level . In the future, establishing the organizational system of grassroots zoning should go beyond the traditional mode of township establishment, and achieve the organic integration of administration and autonomy from the entan-glement of them, achieve urban-rural integrated governance from urban-rural separated governance, achieve parity in duty from disparity in duty, achieve a flattened structure from a multi-level hierarchy, and achieve more naturally defined boundaries from topographically fragmented and jagged borders.
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