People-centeredness:TheLogic,ChallengesandPathsofChineseUrbanGovernanceModernization

YI Cheng-zhi, WEI Lin-sha

(SchoolofInternationalandPublicAffairs,ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity,Shanghai200030,China)

Abstract:Urban governance embodies the guidance of governance values, the role of governance structures and the promotion of governance processes, and is the product of the combined effect of the three. The modernization of Chinese-style urban governance is an important part of a Chinese path to modernization, which highlights the distinct people-centered value orientation. For this reason, building the people’s city and promoting the modernization of Chinese-style urban governance must demonstrate distinct characteristics of people-oriented, holistic, and responsive nature from the three dimensions of governance values, governance structures and governance processes. In this regard, the urban governance system should take targeted measures to balance the tension between overall values and individual needs, static conditions and dynamic resilience, and governance tools and governance scenarios, in order to effectively respond to the needs of building the people’s city.

Keywords:Urban Governance;the Modernization of Chinese-style Urban Governance;People-centeredness;the People’s City

TwoTheoreticalDimensionsofSocialSecurity:TheMutual-constructionTheoryof“Recommodification”andtheRightTheoryof“Decommodification”

WANG Yi

(SchoolofPhilosophyandSociology,JilinUniversity,Changchun130012,China)

Abstract:The modern social security system is constantly evolving under the joint promotion of the theory of “recommodification” and the theory of “decommodification” rights. The two theoretical dimensions correspond to the market principles and rights principles of social security, respectively. The balance between market principles and rights principles is the theoretical demand and practical requirement of social security. The consensus dilemma that western social security is undergoing is the consequence of an imbalance between the two principles. The root cause lies in the fact that the western social security system is constrained by the logic of capital and cannot achieve a true balance between market principles and rights principles. The Chinese practice of social security not only takes a foothold in the national situation of China, but also is influenced by the trend of social security in the international community, to gradually form a comprehensive social security system and meet the basic need of members of society for social security. However, the two principles in the comprehensive social security system have not yet reached an ideal balance, which results in that employment groups-centered “worker-resident” dual social security system of China is always faced with problems such as equilibrium, accessibility, sustainability. In future development, under the guidance of the idea of common prosperity which goes beyond the logic of western capital, China needs to construct a social security system combining the coexistence and sharing of “decommodification” with the joint construction and sharing of “recommodification”, achieve an ideal balance between the two principles through three levels of basic survival guarantee system, risk prevention system, and basic public service support, overcome the prominent problems of China’s social security system, and explore the new practice of social security of a Chinese path to modernization to meet the needs of the development of the times.

Keywords:the Theory of Social Security; Decommodification; Recommodification; Common Prosperity