Good governance at the grassroots level is instrumental towards achieving sustainable development of the community. This issue is particularly important in the peri-urban areas of mainland China which has been subject to tremendous pressures from rapid urbanization during the past four decades. Many Chinese villages have been transformed into urban communities. While there are a lot of success stories in the process of transformation, many problems still exist. It is essential to systematically and comprehensively document these diverse experiences so that local Chinese leaders at the grassroots level can learn the best practices and past lessons from these cases about how to enhance effective governance.  To expand the scope of mutual learning and East-West dialogue, a summary of the key literature about grassroots governance and community development will be translated into both Chinese and English, and will be openly accessible through our CIURG website. A workshop and a symposium will be organized to support technical visits to selected case study areas, consolidate experiences of and facilitate face-to-face exchanges among interested village leaders, government officials and academic researchers.  

良好基层治理对于实现社区的可持续发展是非常重要的。这个问题在中国大陆的城郊地区尤为重要，在过去的四十年里，中国大陆的城郊地区受到了快速城市化的巨大压力。许多中国的村庄已经被改造成了城市社区。虽然在改造过程中有很多成功的例子，但仍然存在很多问题。系统全面地记录这些不同的经验是非常必要的，这样中国基层的地方领导人就可以从这些案例中学习到如何加强有效治理的最佳做法和以往的经验教训。 为了扩大相互学习和东西方对话的范围，有关基层治理和社区发展的重要文献摘要将被翻译成中文和英文，并通过我们的CIURG网站公开发布。我们将组织一次研讨会和一次专题讨论会，以支持对选定的案例研究地区进行技术访问，巩固经验，并促进感兴趣的村庄领导人、政府官员和学术研究人员之间的面对面交流。 

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Our project aims to achieve the following objectives: 1) to summarize the best practices and key lessons about grassroots governance for community development in urbanizing villages from the key literature and case studies from fieldwork; 2) to enhance mutual learning and exchange between China and the international community about the relationship between grassroots governance and community development of urbanizing  villages; and 3) to contribute to improving grassroots governance with a view to enhancing community development of urbanizing villages in mainland China.

我们的项目旨在实现以下目标： 1）从主要文献和实地考察的案例中总结关于城市化村庄社区发展的基层治理的最佳实践和关键经验；2）加强中国和国际社会在城市化村庄的基层治理和社区发展之间的相互学习和交流；3）为改善基层治理，以促进中国大陆城市化村庄的社区发展作出贡献。

Acknowledgment 致谢
Research findings of this study come from a research grant from The Hong Kong Research Grants Council 本研究受到福特基金会资助​
https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/index.html​

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