Using Grassroots Governance Modernization to Support the Construction of a Higher-Level Safe China

Grassroots governance is the cornerstone of national governance, and the level of grassroots governance modernization directly affects the level of national governance modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to grassroots governance work, emphasizing that "the foundational work of grassroots governance modernization must be grasped well" and "Party building must be used to lead grassroots governance and the construction of grassroots political power." The "Proposal" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC [1]1 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in July 2025, focusing on further deepening reform and advancing Chinese modernization. clarified the main objectives of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period [2]2 The "15th Five-Year Plan" covers the years 2026–2030, the next five-year plan for national economic and social development., including the solid advancement of the construction of a higher-level Safe China, and made important deployments for perfecting the social governance system, requiring the strengthening of Party building to lead grassroots governance and the construction of grassroots political power. This year marks the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Whether it is implementing the requirement from the "Proposal" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee to "effectively prevent and resolve various risks, enhance economic and social resilience, and ensure a new development pattern with a new security pattern," or fulfilling the key task from the Central Economic Work Conference held at the end of last year [3]3 The Central Economic Work Conference is an annual high-level meeting that sets the economic policy agenda for the following year. to "adhere to holding the bottom line and actively yet prudently resolve risks in key areas," neither can be separated from grassroots governance. To this end, it is necessary to deeply grasp the requirements of Party building leading grassroots governance and use grassroots governance modernization to support the construction of a higher-level Safe China.

基层治理是国家治理的基石，基层治理现代化水平直接影响着国家治理现代化水平。习近平总书记高度重视基层治理工作，强调“必须抓好基层治理现代化这项基础性工作”“抓好党建引领基层治理和基层政权建设”等。党的二十届四中全会《建议》明确了“十五五”时期经济社会发展的主要目标，其中包括更高水平平安中国建设扎实推进，并对完善社会治理体系作出重要部署，要求加强党建引领基层治理和基层政权建设。今年是“十五五”开局之年。无论是贯彻党的二十届四中全会《建议》提出的“有效防范化解各类风险，增强经济和社会韧性，以新安全格局保障新发展格局”要求，还是落实去年底召开的中央经济工作会议提出的“坚持守牢底线，积极稳妥化解重点领域风险”重点任务，都离不开基层治理。为此，要深刻把握党建引领基层治理的要求，以基层治理现代化助力更高水平平安中国建设。

Adhere to Party building leadership. The leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for the construction of Safe China. To advance grassroots governance modernization, it is necessary to give full play to the Party's core leadership role in overall planning and coordinating all parties, ensuring that Party leadership runs through all aspects and the entire process of grassroots governance, and striving to enable the masses to enjoy a beautiful life in an environment that is both stable and orderly yet full of vitality. Give full play to the role of grassroots Party organizations as battle fortresses and the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, comprehensively improving the ability and level of urban and rural grassroots Party organizations to lead grassroots governance. Focus on using the Party's innovative theories to study new situations and solve new problems, while also exploring and deepening methods such as grid-based Party building, using grids as the basic unit for strengthening governance and serving the masses, carrying out risk hazard investigation and rectification, achieving real-time perception and real-time supervision of daily work and timely handling of "difficult and complicated cases," and effectively transforming the Party's political advantages, organizational advantages, and advantages in close ties with the masses into grassroots governance effectiveness.

坚持党建引领。党的领导是平安中国建设的根本保证，推进基层治理现代化必须发挥党总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，让党的领导贯穿基层治理各方面全过程，努力让群众在既安定有序又充满活力的环境中乐享美好生活。把基层党组织战斗堡垒作用和党员先锋模范作用发挥出来，全面提高城乡基层党组织领导基层治理的能力和水平。注重运用党的创新理论研究新情况、解决新问题，同时探索深化网格化党建等方式，将网格作为加强治理、服务群众的基础单元，开展风险隐患排查和整治，实现日常工作实时感知、实时监督和“疑难杂症”及时处理，切实将党的政治优势、组织优势、密切联系群众优势转化为基层治理效能。

Consolidate the joint force of co-governance. Grassroots governance under the leadership of Party building does not mean the Party organization takes on everything; rather, it requires continuously improving the social governance system of Party committee leadership, government responsibility, democratic consultation, social coordination, public participation, rule-of-law guarantee, and technological support. This requires building a social governance pattern of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits, mobilizing and organizing all forces to participate together, fully stimulating the initiative, creativity, and enthusiasm of multiple governance subjects, and widely consolidating joint forces. Uphold and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the New Era [4]4 The "Fengqiao Experience" originated in the 1960s in Fengqiao, Zhejiang Province, as a method of resolving conflicts at the grassroots level through mass participation and mediation; it has been repeatedly promoted by the Party leadership as a model for social governance., solidly advance the standardized construction of comprehensive social security governance centers, and do a good job in preventing and resolving conflicts and disputes. Adhere to the principle that the people are the main body of grassroots governance, extensively carry out activities such as village affairs discussions and public opinion consultations, mobilize and organize the people through various institutional arrangements and methods, encourage citizens, enterprises, and social organizations to offer suggestions for policy formulation and effect evaluation, build a social governance community where everyone has responsibility, everyone fulfills their duty, and everyone enjoys the benefits, effectively communicate social conditions and public opinion, balance the interests of all parties, and allow the broad masses of the people to share the dividends brought by effective social governance.

凝聚共治合力。党建引领下的基层治理，不是党组织的大包大揽，而是要不断健全党委领导、政府负责、民主协商、社会协同、公众参与、法治保障、科技支撑的社会治理体系。这需要构建共建共治共享的社会治理格局，动员组织各方力量共同参与，充分调动多方治理主体的积极性、主动性、创造性，广泛凝聚合力。坚持和发展新时代“枫桥经验”，扎实推进社会治安综合治理中心规范化建设，做好矛盾纠纷预防化解。坚持人民群众是基层治理的主体，广泛开展村民说事、民情恳谈等活动，通过各种制度安排和方式将人民群众动员组织起来，鼓励公民、企业和社会组织等为政策制定与效果评估建言献策，建设人人有责、人人尽责、人人享有的社会治理共同体，有效通达社情民意、平衡各方利益，让广大人民群众共同分享有效社会治理带来的红利。

Improve rule-of-law guarantees. Facing the changes and developments in the situation and tasks of the social governance field, only by consistently adhering to law-based governance and using rule-of-law thinking and methods to prevent risks, resolve conflicts, and maintain social stability can a more solid guarantee be provided for grassroots governance. Deeply study the laws and characteristics of grassroots governance under the new situation, improve grassroots governance policies and regulations, and promote the legal system in the social governance field to become more systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective in operation. Improve the public legal service system covering urban and rural areas, strive to provide the masses with multi-level, wide-ranging, and high-quality legal services, fully utilize legal means such as mediation, arbitration, administrative adjudication, administrative reconsideration, litigation, and legal supervision, and achieve dispute resolution on the track of the rule of law. Actively carry out legal publicity and education, adopt various online and offline forms for real-time and precise legal popularization, so that the supply of legal popularization continuously meets the legal needs of the masses, and promote the formation of good awareness and habits among the masses of handling affairs according to law, seeking law when encountering problems, using law to solve problems, and relying on law to resolve conflicts.

健全法治保障。面对社会治理领域形势任务的发展变化，始终坚持依法治理，运用法治思维和法治方式预防风险、化解矛盾、维护社会稳定，才能为基层治理提供更坚实的保障。深入研究新形势下基层治理的规律特点，完善基层治理政策法规，推动社会治理领域的法律制度体系更加系统完备、科学规范、运行有效。健全覆盖城乡的公共法律服务体系，努力为群众提供多层次、宽领域、高品质的法律服务，充分运用调解、仲裁、行政裁决、行政复议、诉讼、法律监督等法律手段，在法治轨道上实现定分止争。积极开展法治宣传教育，采用网上网下等多种形式实时普法、精准普法，让普法供给不断满足群众的法治需求，促进群众形成办事依法、遇事找法、解决问题用法、化解矛盾靠法的良好意识和习惯。

Strengthen technological empowerment. Technology is a powerful engine for enhancing the effectiveness of grassroots governance, capable of improving the quality and efficiency of grassroots governance, better meeting the people's needs for safety, fairness, and justice, and enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security in social development and progress. Focus on the urgent needs and expectations of the masses, strengthen the construction of integrated online and offline platforms, promote information interconnection and data resource sharing under the premise of ensuring security, so that science and technology can better empower social governance. Make full use of digital technologies such as cloud computing and big data, through methods such as developing intelligent risk prediction and early warning models, strengthen dynamic monitoring, research, and analysis of various risk hazards, enhance intelligent perception capabilities, risk early warning capabilities, and incident handling capabilities, making social governance more forward-looking, precise, and efficient.

加强科技赋能。科技是增强基层治理效能的强大引擎，能够提高基层治理质量和效率，更好满足人民群众对安全、公平、正义等的需求，提升人民在社会发展进步中的获得感、幸福感、安全感。聚焦群众所急所需所盼，加强线上线下一体化平台建设，在保障安全的前提下推动信息互联互通、数据资源共享共用，使科学技术更好地赋能社会治理。充分利用云计算、大数据等数字技术，通过开发智能化风险预测预警模型等方式，加强对各类风险隐患的动态监测、研判分析，提升智能感知能力、风险预警能力和事件处置能力，让社会治理更具预见性、精准性、高效性。