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| TERRITORIALLY-ORIENTED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURING OF THE CPC AND THE GOVERNANCE OF CHINA'S NEW URBAN SPACES——A Case Study of Tianyi Square in Ningbo |
| ZHANG Han |
| Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
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Abstract 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.
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Received: 25 December 2011
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2012, Vol. 27 
