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Theme 1

Keywords: urban redevelopment; community cooperation; community participation; governance

01. What role should the government play in urban redevelopment project learning from Korea?

Keywords: partnership; neoliberalism; community renewal

02. Does partnership necessarily lead to democracy？

Keywords: community development; local government

03. The role played by local government in the community development practice

Keywords: redevelopment; community-based; community development corporation

04. Why could similar redevelopment projects have different socio-economic outcomes?

Keyword: neoliberalism, privatization reforms, planning gain agreements, community Building

05. Why do communities benefit little from privatization reforms?

Keywords: urban redevelopment; community cooperation; community participation; governance

06. Whose purpose does the policy goal of community empowerment serve?

Keywords: urbanization, grassroots governance, local state, shareholding reforms, urban-rural peripheries

07. How do local governments in China effectively manage and control suburban communities?

Keywords: land requisition, power relations, local state, village collectives

08. How does land requisitions restructure state-village power?

Key words: local state, villagers, grassroots governance, peri-urban villages

09. How to rebuild grassroots governance during the process of urbanization?

Key words: community planning, participatory planning, socio-spatial reconstruction, community management and innovation

10. What should be entailed in community planning in China’s new era?

Key words: community governance, human capital, grassroots cadres, book club

11. How can grassroots cadres’ humanistic quality be developed effectively?

Key words: Xiancun village, redevelopment of urbanizing villages, urban renewal, multiple targets

12. Why could the state-led approach to redevelopment of urbanizing village lead to failure?

Key words: WeChat public account, management of village affairs, governance modernization, community governance

13. How can digitalization be leveraged to innovate new modes of community governance?

Key words: new 'xiangxian', loss of elites, local governance, rule of law at the village level

14. How can good governance be developed in rural China?

Key words: social governance, Big Data, Internet Plus, 'xiangxian'

15. How can the Internet be used effectively in social governance at the county level?

Theme 2

Keywords: community-led; community redevelopment; neoliberalism; partnership

16. Why the community-led development in New Zealand caused more community marginalization?

Keywords: corporation social responsibility; community development

17. The role of corporate social responsibility in community development

Keyword: community organizations, community development, market forces, urban redevelopment, gentrification

18. Why does similar community building lead to starkly different development logic?

Key words: Hesilu Village, village revitalization, rural industry development, green and sustainable development

19. How can industry development lead to village revitalization?

Key words: community service center co-run by the Party and general public, volunteer services, public benefit services, community governance

20. How can social forces be incorporated into governance of old residential communities?

Key words: ‘Xiangxian’, rural governance, improvement in public etiquette and ethical standards, rural culture

21. What important roles can ‘xiangxian’ play in rural governance?

Key words: community management, social capital, the third-party platform, collective consciousness

22. A new approach to addressing governance challenges in old residential communities

Key words: social organizations, human capital, community self-governance, functions of government, multiple subjects

23. How can social organizations play a role in collaborative governance of urban communities?

Key words: community, public benefit foundations, support for entrepreneurship and innovation

24. How can entrepreneurship and innovation be developed in China’s urban communities?

Key words: kinship, urban village reconstruction, urban renewal, multi-party participation

25. How the use of kinship associations can improve urban renewal?

Theme 3

Keywords: community trust; trust relationship; community planning

26. What can trust relationship contribute to community building?

Keywords: empowerment; participation; community development

27. What type of participation leads to empowerment in community development?

Key words: Hesilu Village, rural governance, acquaintance society, moral values

28. How can moral values and social relations be reconstructed in villages?

Key words: beautiful village, rural governance, traditional culture, acquaintance society

29. How can we modernize infrastructure in villages and preserve their unique cultural heritage at the same time?

Key words: village norms, public engagement, participatory governance, rural governance

30.How can village norms be made effectively?

Key words: village revitalization, industry development innovation, village culture, economic development

31. How can leveraging the cultural strengths of a village drive its economic development?

Key words: old residential communities, community governance, self-governance team, community building, public participation

32. How can old residential communities address their governance challenges?

Key words: community foundations, public benefit community services, integrating resources at the subdistrict level, community self-governance

33. How can community foundations enhance residents' sense of belonging?

Key words: community governance, leadership of the Party, village-turned urban communities, smart management

34. How can governance of village-turned urban communities be improved?

Key words: community governance, residents’ self-governance, self-management committee

35. How can community residents’ competence in self-governance be developed?

Key words: poverty alleviation, village revitalization, culture revitalization

36. How can cultural heritage help a village to lift itself out of poverty?

Keywords: empowerment, rural area, community development

37. The empowering strategy amidst rural community development in Australia

Theme 4

Keyword: migrant workers; social capital; community participation; social integration

38. What factors can have effects on Chinese migrant workers’ community participation?

Keyword: migrant workers; village in city; urban renewal, human capital; community

39. How has redevelopment of urbanizing villages influenced migrant workers?

Keyword: gentrification; urban regeneration; community revival; pure art; commercial art

40. What role does culture and art play in the urban regeneration process?

Key words: children of migrant workers, social incorporation, community services, education equity, children education

41. How can communities improve their care for migrant workers’ children?

Key words: residents’ mutual support, community governance, public participation, multiple subjects

42. How can a more inclusive mode of community governance be developed?

Key words: migrant workers, sense of belonging, needs of inner life, volunteer services

43. How can volunteer services increase migrant workers’ sense of belonging?

Theme 5

Key words: owners’ committee, compound management, leadership of the Party, innovation in social governance

44. How can owners’ committees manage local conflicts more effectively?

Key words: community environment, population ageing, aging in place, community redevelopment, participation of multiple players

45. How can community adapt to population ageing through redevelopment?

Key words: community building, compound library, cultural activities

46. How can a compound library contribute to community building?

Key words: community service facilities building, whole process governance, people oriented

47. How can the problem of fragmented provision of community service facilities be addressed?

Key words: public service, government purchases, diversification of subjects

48. How can a mode of multiple subjects providing community public service be developed?

Key words: old residential communities, local self-governance, refined management, community governance

49. How can governance of old residential communities be improved?

Keywords: community gardening, community development, civic agriculture

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