In the afternoon of September 20, Jing’an District held a working conference titled “Creating a Building-level Party Building ‘Governance Cube’ to Demonstrate the Outstanding Style of Jing’an District—Building An Interconnected, Complementary and Interactive New Pattern of Grassroots Party Building among Buildings, Industries and Neighborhoods”. The conference was held at the Party-masses Service Station of Plaza 66. This event aimed to thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 12th Shanghai Municipal CPC Congress and the Municipal Conference on Deepening the Modernization of Grass-roots Governance System and Capacity, and to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground for innovative approach on building-level Party building to promote the integration and mutual reinforcement of Party building, business operation and local governance. Sun Ganlin and Yu Yong attended the conference and delivered speeches. Sun Ganlin is the Deputy Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, Director of the Party Building Office of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, Chief of the Party Committee of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee of Social Work, and Yu Yong is the Secretary of CPC Jing’an District Committee.

Deputy Director Sun Ganlin commended the Shanghai Building-level Party Building Innovation Practice Base in the New Era, as well as the achievements and features of the District’s building-level Party building exemplified by Plaza 66. He also pointed out that in the future, the key lies in improving organizational capabilities, and we should focus on new spaces of governance, build a solid basis for continuous extension of our party organization and work system to all the “nerve endings”; aiming at improving cohesion, we need to give good answers to the “questions of our times” for all kinds of new business forms and new employment groups; with our development target in mind, we should concentrate on the new economic drivers and start the “red engine”. It is hoped that Jing’an District may set an example in both development and governance.

Yu Yong, Secretary of the CPC Jing’an District Committee, put forward specific requirements for the continuous exploration and innovation of building-level Party building in Jing’an District during the “good governance” stage. We should highlight political guidance, give full play to the role of the Party organs in buildings as the political core, and guide the white-collar workers in buildings to establish positive ideological values and pursuits. We should highlight the organizational guidance, strengthen the grassroots party organization system, and more enterprises and white-collar workers to participate in the public governance of buildings through the Building Affairs Committee (BAC), to expand the Party building work from buildings to industries and neighborhoods. We should also highlight service guidance, harness the important role of the “chief service team”, promote the integration of quality resources in functional departments of the government, and comprehensively improve the capabilities of Party-masses workers in key buildings.

At the conference, Wang Yiqun, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Jing’an District Committee, unveiled the “Governance Cube” Diversified Good Governance System for Building-level Party building in Jing’an District. He stressed the need to adhere to “Party building leadership, multi-dimensional linkage and diversified integration”. With the priority to strengthening the organizational system of building-level Party building, we should promote the interconnectivity, complementary and interactivity among buildings, industries and neighborhoods, and should make every effort to establish a “governance cube” of building-level Party building that incorporates consultative self-governance in buildings, cooperative governance in industries, and joint governance in neighborhoods. The District may thereby demonstrate a model of good governance featuring building-level Party building.

At the conference, Xu Shujie, a Member of the Department Affairs Commission of the Organization Department of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and Deputy Chief of the Party Committee of CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee of Social Work, and Song Zongde, Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Jing’an District Committee, presented plaques to the representatives from the BACs in key buildings. Zhou Huizhen, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of West Nanjing Road Sub-district, exchanged views on good governance of buildings led by party building. Zhao Jianfeng, Secretary and Director of the Development and Reform Commission of Jing’an District, introduced the Party Building Alliance brand of “Global Service Provider Program”. Functional departments including the Jing’an Commission of Commerce, and the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, along with regional Party building units such as the Shanghai Human Resources Consulting Association, jointly launched the “Chief Service Team” Program. The business district of West Nanjing Road also unveiled the “Three Actions” and “Nine Programs” for neighborhood governance, to actively explore new pathways for integrated building-neighborhood governance, and ultimately establish a new governance pattern for neighborhood governance involving and shared by everyone.

Building consensus from building-level consultation and self-governance. Buildings are “upright communities”. Establishing the BAC in a building is an example of our active exploration to implement the whole-process people’s democracy and the concept of a people-oriented city. This year, Jing’an District has set up BACs in 50 key buildings, including five buildings each with a tax revenue of RMB 100 million per month such as Plaza 66, and 21 100-million-yuan buildings such as the One Museum Place. This has established a complete system involving eight mechanisms such as “integrated communication, topic collection, visits for four essential matters, consultation and discussion, open access, special invitation, project claim, and supervision and evaluation”. This may stimulate the sense of “ownership” of enterprises and employees and realize “the thorough discussion, participation and management of building affairs by everyone”. Meanwhile, given the trends of high fluidity, high growth rate and high vibrancy, Jing’an District has set up a “Chief Service Team” made up of regional Party building units including district-level departments, municipal-level authorities and municipal associations. It focuses on industrial support, administrative approval, taxes and finances, talent services and other areas that enterprises are most concerned about. We select backbone staff to go down to neighborhoods and buildings to provide services in groups, to allow Party building businesses, administrative affairs and social services can be provided within buildings. This helps to deliver concrete results for Party building and offers services that are always readily available.

Industries pool their strength in cooperation to add momentum. The district brings together the development advantages of enterprises in buildings through industry Party building, thereby promoting the integrated development of industry Party building and Building-level party building. We have made explorations on the establishment of CPC committees or Party building alliances in financial, legal and human resources service sectors. On top of that, with a focus on the global service providers that best capture the District’s development features and have global influence, the District has set up the “Global Service Provider” Party Building Alliance, to embed the Party organs into the industrial chains of buildings. Led by the Jing’an District Development and Reform Commission, the Party Building Alliance now has 32 initial members, forming a “1+4+6” organizational structure. It has released three major initiatives on “government engine”, “business alliance” and “intelligent core”, and operation mechanisms such as task lists, work project advancements and daily agendas have taken shape. Through collaborations on Party organ development, joint events, resource sharing and talent cultivation, the spillover effect of the Party building can be amplified to promote the organic integration of Party building and industrial development. This may allow industries to blend with the world.

Joint neighborhood governance promotes harmony. In recent years, Jing’an District has attempted to establish joint governance mechanisms in key business districts and neighborhoods where enterprises in the building as the mainstay and shared action involves multiple entities. These mechanisms include the Party building joint meetings, neighborhood governance alliances and neighborhood governance committees. These are meant to explore the “Good Governance” mode for the co-development of buildings and neighborhoods led by Party building. In the business district of West Nanjing Road with a highly developed building economy, we have established three major platforms including the Governance Alliance in Jing’an Temple Business District, Party Building Joint Meeting in Plaza 66 and the Joint Meeting on Shared Governance in the “Neighborhood in Shimen Road No. 2 Sub-district”, and also subdivides 27 networks in commercial buildings. The party working committees in every sub-district took the initiative to encourage the convener of BACs and full-time Party-masses workers to be the “dual grid leader”. This creates a comprehensive organizational structure covering “grids for neighborhoods—grids for building groups—grids for individual buildings”. We also implemented the “Three Actions” and “Nine Programs” for the neighborhood governance of the business district of West Nanjing Road. We gathered manpower from commercial buildings, malls and vendors, government agencies and public institutions, and residential quarters, to tackle issues from pandemic control to city appearance and environment. This brings about a new governance pattern for neighborhood governance involving and shared by everyone.

The conference also witnessed the hiring ceremony of the expert advisory group on the urban grassroots Party building of Jing’an District. The members hired by the advisory group are: Feng Xiaomin, Chief expert of the Party Building Think Tank of the Shanghai Research Association for Party Building; Yang Jinzhi, Standing Deputy Editor of Xinhua News Agency Shanghai Bureau; Prof. He Haibing, Director of the Modern Community Research Center at Shanghai Party Institute of CPC. The experts gave keynote speeches on how the District can improve its interconnected, complementary and interactive new pattern of grassroots party building among buildings, industries and neighborhoods.