At present, the urbanization rate of permanent residents in China exceeds 65%. Urban scale is expanding day by day, urban structure is becoming more and more complex, and urban governance, especially the governance of big cities, is becoming more and more difficult.

How to make the city run more efficiently and orderly at the macro level and improve the residents’ happiness at the micro level, cities have been actively exploring practical paths.

During this trip to the mountain city, urban governance was the focus of the general secretary’s inspection. "Network Plus" takes you to understand the latest deployment of the General Secretary from three dimensions.

The first is the "temperature" of urban governance.

On April 22nd, the General Secretary walked into the community of Democratic Village, Xiejiawan Street, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing to learn about the local implementation of urban renewal and guarantee to improve people’s livelihood.

The Democratic Village Community in Xiejiawan Street was built in 1950s and 1990s, and the renewal project was started in early 2022. In the past two years, the community has rebuilt 110,000 square meters of buildings, demolished 43,000 square meters of dangerous buildings and improved the supporting environment by 90,000 square meters.

This is the democratic village community in Xiejiawan Street, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, which was filmed on April 23rd, 2024.

On the display wall of the community meeting room, past lives and community work in the democratic village community are introduced in detail. The general secretary stopped here, looked carefully and asked deeply.

General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that the renovation of old residential areas is a key point of urban renewal and a livelihood project, which should not only preserve historical memories and distinctive features, but also solve practical problems that residents are concerned about.

Urban renewal is an important starting point for improving urban governance capacity and level. Focusing on the pain points of urban residents, let the old community change into a "new look", let the back streets and alleys wear "new clothes" and let the underground pipe network get a "new life". Community residents sincerely said: "In the past, the environment here was dirty and messy. After the implementation of urban renewal, the roads were smooth and the environment was clean, and our sense of happiness was stronger."　　

People are the foundation of the city. The voice of residents reflects the value of urban governance. As General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said when he visited Shanghai last year, "A city should not only have a height, but also a temperature."

Look at the "accuracy" of urban governance.

In May, 2023, when General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited xiong’an new area, Hebei Province, he particularly emphasized the need to promote the modernization of urban governance at the same time, and made great efforts to "embroider" from the beginning.

The metaphor of "embroidery" embodies the requirement of "accuracy" of urban governance.

Urban governance involves industrial structure, transportation planning, spatial layout and other aspects. Without refined governance, it is difficult to give full play to the proper functions of the city, and it is even more difficult to meet the requirements of good governance. Therefore, to do a good job in urban governance, we should be clear-minded, accurate-eyed, and meticulous, and all the needles should be "embroidered" in practice.

From the "Digital Cabin" in Jing ‘an District, Shanghai, which doesn’t close for 24 hours, services and resources will be extended to residents’ doorsteps, to Qingdao, Shandong Province, where temporary storage points for decoration garbage and bulky garbage will be set up to improve the environment for garbage sorting, and then to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where an Internet rental bicycle management platform will be built to monitor the parking situation in bike-sharing in real time and intelligently dispatch enterprises to clear and transport … … Many cities are making "embroidered" urban governance shine into reality.

In addition, as the "cell" of the city, the community is not only the daily living place and living space of the citizens, but also the basic unit of public service and social governance and the "last mile" of urban governance.

"A lot of work of urban governance depends on the fighting bastion of grass-roots party organizations and the platform of communities." In democratic village communities, the general secretary once again urged to "improve the refined governance and precise service level of communities.

Finally, urban governance should improve the degree of intelligence.

In March, 2020, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the Hangzhou City Brain Operation Command Center. Here, the general secretary said that it is the only way to promote the modernization of urban governance system and governance capacity to make the city smarter and smarter from digitalization to intelligence.

On April 23rd, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited Chongqing Digital City Operation and Governance Center.

During this trip to the mountain city, the general secretary once again came to see an "urban brain" — — Chongqing Digital City Operation and Governance Center.

The center collects urban physical indicators such as water, electricity, gas, communication, bridges, tunnels, tracks and pipe networks, and promotes the global coverage, full-time perception and full-time response of urban operation and governance, which is the overall reconstruction of Chongqing in exploring and realizing the governance system of megacities.

The general secretary was deeply impressed by Chongqing’s "urban brain", and he mentioned the subject of urban governance several times in his subsequent inspection. He said: "In the information age, it is necessary to speed up the pace of building smart cities and build an intelligent hub for urban operation and governance" and "make urban governance smarter, more efficient and more accurate".

"First-class cities must have first-class governance." Digital urban governance is an important way to improve the modernization level of urban governance. A "thinking" smart city can make people live safer and better.