通过对宁波天一广场治理机制的个案研究发现,中国新城市空间的治理已经成为中国共产党进行党建工作的一项地域性工程。在市场化改革与地方间竞争的背景下,地方党政机关极为关注基于行政辖区的地域性身份认同和利益,有意识的与非公有部门的经济精英共同塑造和强化地域性身份认同和利益诉求,并结成新形式的城市治理联盟。中共及其附属的群众组织的地方组织力量,通过地域导向的组织重构,加强了对非公有部门的控制力,填补了市场转型造成的新城市空间治理的真空,也加强了自身在新城市空间中的组织网络和治理能力。

This is a case study of Tianyi Square in Ningbo, China, based on interviews, observations and documentary research, and it seeks to explore the relationship between the governance of China's new urban spaces and the local organizational restructuring of the Communist Party of China(CPC). It is argued that the governance of China's new urban spaces is becoming a territorial project of Party-building for the CPC. In such new urban spaces, there are no work units(danwei) based on which state socialism used to impose political-economic control over China's urban population. Urban business districts and office buildings become the new spatial units and organizational basis for CPC's such local organizational restructuring, and new CPC organs and service centers for CPC members are established, which are not only in charge of Party affairs but also equipped with administrative functions and directly involved in inward investment attraction. Those local CPC organs are actively recruiting new members among private entrepreneurs and professionals working in urban business districts. Therefore establishing more effective mechanisms for regulating the non-state sector. The spatial dimension of the CPC's organizational restructuring in the reform era with regard to urban governance is a distinct contribution to the research of China's urban governance and state transformation.