“The new elevators are stable and fast. The Party branch has truly done a great deed for us!” said Jiang Yan, a resident of Jinshijie Garden Community in Jiangbei Subdistrict. Recently, the Party Branch of Jinshijie Garden Community took the lead in the renovation and renewal of old elevators: it set up a coordination team, finalized a differentiated cost-sharing plan through the Joint Discussion Hall, organized Party members and residents to supervise the construction throughout the process, pushed for the full replacement of 24 old elevators, and improved the long-term maintenance supervision mechanism. This initiative stands as a vivid practice of grassroots Party organizations pooling forces to translate people-benefiting policies into residents’ sense of happiness.
To enhance the efficiency of grassroots governance, since the second half of last year, Jiangbei Subdistrict has taken Party building as the guide and established 40 community Party branches in residential areas under its jurisdiction. By advancing standardized foundation building, professional empowerment and refined services in three dimensions, it has pooled the joint governance forces of Party members, residents, property management and social sectors. Up to now, these community Party branches have accomplished more than 160 livelihood projects, mediated over 500 disputes, and organized nearly 300 neighborhood-friendly activities. Such efforts have turned residents’ sense of happiness from paper commitments into tangible feelings rooted in their hearts.
Standardized Development Firms the Core Position for Governance
Since the beginning of this year, guided by assigned liaison staff, the Party Branch of Jiahe Mingyuan Community has sorted out and improved the archives of organizational life, achieving a marked upgrade in the quality and efficiency of organizational activities. The Party Branch of Jinshijie Community has developed a model of centralized learning + thematic seminars + practical activities, and organized more than 20 events including Party Members Solve Residents’ Worries and environmental improvement campaigns. The Party Branch of Vanke Community has divided Party member responsibility zones with clear duties such as policy publicity and appeal collection, and addressed over 30 livelihood demands of residents.
Jiangbei Subdistrict has solidified the foundation for the standardized development of community Party branches through multiple dimensions: organizational development, resource integration and capacity building. The subdistrict assigned leading team members and Party members from government organs to provide targeted guidance to community and residential Party branches on a zonal basis, and went to the frontlines to diagnose problems and prescribe solutions for weak points such as the insufficient role of some Party members in branch work.
While consolidating organizational foundations, the subdistrict has integrated idle resources such as property office spaces and elevated floors in communities in light of local conditions, building 3 Senior Citizens’ Homes and 34 Party-Mass Activity Stations, thus weaving a dense network of neighborhood-friendly services. The Party Branch of Jinshijie Garden Community, in cooperation with the property management, transformed idle space into a Party-mass service station integrating a senior activity center, a public-benefit library and a discussion hall. The Party Branch of Jiahe Mingyuan Community built activity spaces using idle areas, equipped with more than 20 sets of fitness equipment, and regularly held neighborhood-friendly activities such as summer care services and cultural gatherings. Relying on the Happiness Station, the Party Branch of Vanke Community hosted a Neighborhood Festival, with its Neighborly Feast attracting more than 200 households to participate.
To ensure scientific and efficient governance decision-making, the subdistrict built an online Finger-tip Discussion Hall to smooth communication channels, and promoted an offline Neighborhood-friendly Council, standardizing the whole process of issue collection, deliberation and judgment, and result publicity, so as to achieve efficient and transparent decision-making through discussion. A typical case is the elevator installation in Jiangbei Xinyuan Community: the Party branch took the lead in resolving disputes through online solicitation + offline research and judgment, facilitating the smooth implementation of the project.
Professional Empowerment Forges a Vanguard Team for Governance
Jiangbei Subdistrict has comprehensively improved the governance and service capacity of community Party branches by advancing three key measures: training for empowerment, resource connection and team building. To solidify the professional foundation of the governance team, the subdistrict relied on Party schools at the district and subdistrict levels to carry out special training on core topics including Party member education and management, homeowners’ committee development and dispute mediation. Meanwhile, it organized branch committee members, property managers and homeowners’ committee directors to conduct on-site visits to outstanding communities, enabling advanced governance experience to be transformed into local governance outcomes.
On the basis of strengthening the professional competence of the team, the Party Working Committee of the subdistrict has actively built a bridge for resource connection, cultivating 62 caring institutions and enterprises as Neighborhood-friendly Partners, injecting strong external forces into community governance. The Party Branch of Jiangbei Xinyuan Community, in cooperation with these partners, built a Health Service Station that regularly provides free medical consultations and health lectures, filling the gap in elderly care services. The Party Branch of Hailunbao Community, supported by materials from partners, carries out regular festival condolences and neighborhood-friendly activities. The Party Branch of Jinshijie Garden Community connected with caring institutions to equip the community with AED emergency rescue equipment, building a solid emergency defense line for residents’ health.
To build a pattern of diversified co-governance, the subdistrict also strived to strengthen the collaborative governance team: it encouraged Party members from homeowners’ committees, property management and emerging sectors to join the branch leadership, and integrated professional forces such as lawyers and engineers, forming a collaborative governance system of Community Party Branch + Homeowners’ Committee + Property Management + Various Organizations. Relying on this system, the Party Branch of Jiahe Mingyuan Community set up a special team for summer care services, offering courses such as homework tutoring and interest development, serving more than 200 teenagers in total, and accurately solving the prominent livelihood problem of parents’ difficulty in taking care of their children during summer vacation.
Targeted Resolution of Bottlenecks Weaves a Happiness Network for Livelihood
Recently, a water leakage dispute between two households in Vanke Community was successfully resolved under the coordination of the community’s Party branch, with the neighbors reconciling and shaking hands. Focusing on the pressing difficulties and concerns of residents, all community Party branches have taken concrete measures to address livelihood bottlenecks, bringing the warmth of Party building straight to people’s hearts. To resolve neighborhood conflicts in a timely manner, the Party branches built a joint online-offline platform and established a closed-loop dispute mediation mechanism with multi-party participation, ensuring that minor issues are resolved within the community and major issues within the subdistrict. On the basis of efficiently resolving conflicts and disputes, the Party branches also implemented a docking mechanism for Neighborhood-friendly Practical Projects, targeting and solving livelihood bottlenecks such as environmental governance and facility improvement. A case in point: aiming at the prominent problems of random parking and difficult charging of electric vehicles in Jinshijie Garden Community, the local Party branch, together with the homeowners’ committee and property management, repeatedly discussed the site selection plan, and finally built a dedicated parking lot with 250 parking spaces and 180 charging spots, resolving residents’ long-standing worries about parking difficulties and charging risks.
The Party branches have also built a service matrix covering all age groups, focusing their services on the elderly, children and special groups. For the elderly, they built Senior Citizens’ Homes and Health Service Centers, providing warm services such as health care and free medical consultations. For young people, they offer courses such as calligraphy, painting and live-streaming skills, building a growth support platform. For teenagers, they organize summer camps and care classes, realizing the mutual promotion of teenagers’ growth and urban development.
A relevant person in charge of Jiangbei Subdistrict stated that in the next step, the subdistrict will continue to deepen the construction of community Party branches, centering on the goal of Party building guidance, resource integration, and scale expansion with quality improvement. It will promote the establishment of a Tripartite Discussion Group composed of property management, homeowners’ committees and Party members to solve livelihood problems such as the renovation of old communities and shared parking spaces. In addition, it will extensively connect various resources, regularly organize neighborhood-friendly activities based on Party-mass positions, prioritize services for the elderly, children and special groups with full-age coverage, and continuously improve the level of standardized development, professional governance and precise services, so that residents’ sense of happiness and gain will keep rising right at their doorsteps.
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From solving the difficulties of elevator installation and mediating neighborhood noise disputes, to building Party-mass service stations and setting up summer care teams, Jiangbei Subdistrict has forged community Party branches into the backbone of grassroots governance. With standardized, professional and refined governance measures, it has opened up the last mile of serving residents, providing a replicable practical model for Party building-led modernization of grassroots governance.
The remarkable improvement in governance efficiency of Jiangbei Subdistrict lies in consolidating the governance foundation of Party building guidance + multi-party coordination. On the one hand, it has solidified the organizational foundation for grassroots governance through measures such as full coverage of 40 community Party branches, targeted guidance by the leading team, and improved organizational life systems. On the other hand, it has integrated professional forces including property management, homeowners’ committees, Neighborhood-friendly Partners, lawyers and engineers, building a diversified co-governance system and shifting governance from individual efforts to collaborative team-based services. This model is in line with experiences such as Guangzhou’s Prompt Compliance with Orders and Responsiveness to Requests and Shenzhen’s Standardization of Party Building-led Grassroots Governance, demonstrating the core role of Party organizations in coordinating resources and pooling forces.
Grassroots governance should meet residents’ expectations with precise services, achieving the resonance of governance efficiency and people-centered warmth. In the future, if Jiangbei Subdistrict further improves the evaluation mechanism for governance effectiveness and perfects the long-term system for Party member services, pushing the construction of community Party branches from meeting standards to pursuing excellence, it will continue to amplify the effectiveness of Party building in governance, turning every community into a happy home full of warmth and vitality.
