Research on Optimizing the Role of Social Organizations in Building, Governing, and Sharing Together

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jmsd.202512528

Author(s)

Xin Ma, Tan Sri Dato' Wira, Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid, Ali Khatibi, Jacquline Tham

Affiliation(s)

The Communist Party of China Harbin Municipal Party School, Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia

Abstract

Social organizations are playing an increasingly important role in China’s community governance, especially in realizing the purpose of constructing with people, governing for people and enjoying the benefits from social governance, but social organizations still confront many practical problems, such as imperfect participation mechanism, weak ability of resource acquisition and service, and insufficient independence and governance capacity in organization. This paper attempts to optimize the above problems by enhancing legal system and policy guarantee, improving the ability of resource acquisition and service, and improving the independence and governance capacity in organization. Based on improving the legal system and current situation of social organizations in community governance, this paper analyzes the key ways to optimize the role of social organizations in community governance and puts forward related policy suggestions, so as to improve the efficiency of social organizations in community governance, and provide theoretical basis and reference for realizing more efficient, democratic and harmonious community governance model.

Keywords

Social Organizations; Community Governance; Joint Construction; Co-Governance; Shared Benefits; Role Optimization

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