How Do I Become a City Manager?

City management refers to the city as an open and complex system, based on the basic information flow of the city, using a series of mechanisms such as decision-making, planning, organization, and command, using legal, economic, administrative, and technical means, through government, The interaction between the market and society, decision-making guidance, standardized coordination, service and business behavior around urban operation and development.

Modern city management

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Establishing new urban management concepts

For a long period of time, some local governments and leading cadres have misunderstood urban management and adopted some extensive methods in urban management. Changing this situation requires managers to abandon unscientific management concepts.

1. Don't blindly engage in construction

In some cities, facilities, streets, neighborhoods, parks, and community service centers have not been integrated into the daily lives of residents, and have even become a piece of inactive building complex. Many new communities lack the necessary public services for residents such as schools and hospitals. Good cities must have accessible schools, parks, good service hospitals, clean homes, and other infrastructure that is closely related to people's social life.

2. Don't change the plan at will

Redevelopment, planning every year, and demolition every year, demolished, and demolished, bring huge waste to society and great inconvenience to people's lives.

3. Don't ignore the quality of life of residents

Urban construction cannot only pursue economic development. Attention should be paid to the increase in urban wealth, as well as the quality of life of residents. The quality of life is the sum of the facilities, environment, technology, and services in daily life that a country or region provides to residents. Among them, government public services are the main body of quality of life. On this basis, it also includes social organizations that may provide services, such as community organizations, voluntary organizations, and charitable organizations, which are becoming increasingly important providers of quality of life.

4. Don't ignore the migrant population

According to the resident population, China's urbanization rate has reached 56.10%, and the urban resident population has reached 770 million. This 770 million people includes 250 million migrant permanent residents who are mainly migrant workers who live and work in cities and towns. However, there are still obstacles in equal access to education, employment services, social security, medical care, and affordable housing. A complex series of economic and social issues. We must not only value the role of urbanization of the agricultural population in urban expansion, boost domestic demand, and economic growth, but also pay attention to the humanistic care of the external population.

Promote more refined urban management

Urban work should take the creation of a good living environment as the central goal; try to promote the concerted and concerted action of the government, society, and citizens as much as possible, so that the visible hands of the government, the invisible hands of the market, and the hard-working hands of the citizens can work in the same direction. To make the people's lives in the cities more convenient, more comfortable, and better, it is necessary to innovate urban management methods, and in particular, pay attention to strengthening the refined management of cities.

1. Mobilize public participation

Mobilize enthusiasm, initiative and creativity in all aspects to gather positive energy for urban development. This requires sound interest expression, coordination, and protection mechanisms to guide urban residents to exercise their rights, express their claims, and resolve disputes in accordance with the law. Respect citizens' right to know, participate in, and supervise urban development decisions, encourage enterprises and citizens to participate in urban construction and management in various ways, and truly realize urban co-governance, co-management, and co-construction and sharing.

2. Enhance community autonomy

Efforts will be made to improve the satisfaction of community residents, and realize the positive interaction between government governance, social regulation, and residents' autonomy. The practical significance of community autonomy is that people form a network of mutual cognition and familiarity through community interaction, so as to maintain their own security and the security of their neighbors, and on the basis of this, form strong social trust and social supervision. The community implements self-management, self-service, self-education, and self-supervision, giving residents more space to participate in autonomy, handling their own affairs, and allowing residents to form a sense of belonging and identification with the community.

3. Improve the level of management according to law

Strengthen legislative work in urban management and law enforcement, and improve supporting laws and regulations. Accelerate the formulation of local regulations and rules on urban management law enforcement, clarify the scope and procedures of urban management law enforcement, and standardize the rights and responsibilities of urban management law enforcement. Residents must abide by the law and responsibilities, and managers must return the rights that should belong to residents to the residents according to law, and guide residents to make good use of the law and autonomy within the legal framework. Reform the urban management system, rationalize the division of responsibilities among various departments, improve the level of urban management, and implement the main body of responsibility.

4. Optimize the urban environment

Raise the level of urban garden greening, sanitation and cleaning, strengthen the environmental management of the atmosphere, noise, solid waste, rivers and lakes, and improve the urban living environment. Adhere to the strategy of public transport priority, and strive to improve the level of urban public transport services. Strengthen the coordination between different modes of transport, and advocate green travel modes such as walking and cycling.

5.Using modern technology to solve urban problems

Strengthen the construction and functional integration of the digital platform for city management, build a comprehensive city management database, and develop smart applications for people's livelihood services. Utilize sensors and smart devices throughout the city to make comprehensive measurements of the city, fully integrate existing resources through the Internet of Things and the Internet, and encourage and support governments and organizations at all levels to innovate and collaborate on the basis of smart technology. Promote reforms in many areas such as urban science and technology, culture, optimize the ecological chain of innovation and entrepreneurship, make innovation the main driving force for urban development, and release new kinetic energy for urban development. ^[2]

Modern city management needs relaxation

The society must be stable, the economy must be developed, the city must be orderly, and the citizens must survive. In the face of different values, it is difficult to make simple choices. To get rid of the predicament of law enforcement, we must comprehensively think about urban management and comprehensive law enforcement, and grasp several "degrees" in modern city management.

First grasp the relationship between strength and scale

For a period of time, urban management can be described as inadequate, and its intensity is not insignificant, but why are "small vendors" repeatedly banned, and the contradictions have intensified? An important reason is the lack of control over strength and scale. If urban management cuts off the "rice bowls" that mobile street vendors rely on to survive by banning, confiscation, and fines, it will inevitably lead to these people fighting for survival. The contradiction between "scraving the rice bowl" and "rude law enforcement" will be difficult to reconcile. The core of the problem lies in the fact that only the intensity without paying attention to the scale, and only ignoring the interests of the masses in consideration of administrative efficiency and assessment indicators, will inevitably go against the will and do more with less. The main purpose of urban management is not to restrict, cancel, and squeeze, but to share, serve, and open. It is orderly, standardized, and ruled by law without harming public interests. In other words, the intensity of management should be coordinated with the intensity of service, and the scale of management should be grasped while increasing the intensity of service.

Second, grasp the relationship between strength and validity

How to grasp intensity and how to measure validity? This is an important factor for the harmonious and orderly city. We often see that some cities invest a lot of human, financial and material resources in urban management, but the results are not satisfactory. Frequent law enforcement and repeated law enforcement eventually became invalid law enforcement. In the final analysis, there is no realistic view of the analysis. The hawker and hawker has strong vitality, at least explaining three problems: First, the system cost is high, it is difficult to apply for a license, the fees are expensive, and there are many restrictions; second, there is a wide market demand; The cleanliness and civilization of the city, and the improvement of management effect, must coordinate the relationship between increasing employment, providing convenience services, and meeting consumer demand at different levels. Only by changing blocking to sparse in the process of urban management, and paying more attention to the validity and satisfaction, can the urban management problems be truly cured in the scientific enforcement of law.

Third, grasp the relationship between attitude and temperature

Some localities have a resolute attitude and strict requirements in urban management, and put forward slogans such as "Resolutely Win the Defensive Battle of Urban Management", and regardless of how to fight, it is easy to associate with the literal meaning: Is it to make the people Opposing class struggles? Obviously, this formulation has neither the idea of equality nor the sense of service, which inevitably leads people to question only the highest and not the truth, and act according to the will of the chief. In some cities, unlicensed and unlicensed business activities are explicitly prohibited, which shows the government's clear attitude, but what is lacking is warmth, trust and temperature. The new public service theory believes that managers must pay attention to both the market and performance, as well as laws, administrative law enforcement standards, professional ethics, and more importantly, social values and citizen interests. Therefore, what managers need to do is to take more reasonable measures, which will not only facilitate the lives of the masses, but also highlight the legal authority, and build a trust and cooperation relationship between the public and private and between citizens. ^[3]