How to stimulate residents' enthusiasm for participating in community governance? They have a clever trick

How to involve residents in community governance and stimulate their enthusiasm for participating in community governance? Many communities in Pudong have actively explored, with outdoor public activity spaces created by aerial corridors and wall paintings in the residential areas of Caolu and Beicai towns. This is the result of mobilizing the power of community residents and forming a community governance community. Let's take a look at their practical journey together ↓

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Caolu Town

The Fengshe Yuan residential area in Caolu Town takes party building as the guide and autonomous projects as the link, working together to create a "neighborhood air green corridor", driving residents' enthusiasm for participating in community governance, and allowing grassroots governance to bloom with happiness.

There are four residential areas, among which there is an aerial corridor in Fengshe Xiyuan, a green lawn in Fengshe Dongyuan, and a pavilion in Shengshi Chunxiao Garden. Taking this as an opportunity, residential areas use "corridors" as a link to connect the "lawns" and "pavilions" within their jurisdiction, stimulating the enthusiasm of residents and linking their emotions.

The aerial corridor is a long corridor like platform on the glass dance room in the community. The residents of the community have formed a preliminary rectification plan and are preparing to turn this aerial corridor into an outdoor public activity space.

How is an upgrade and renovation plan that meets the requirements of the community and the needs of residents generated? Residential areas have their own answers: listen and see, go out, please come in. Listening, using participatory discussion methods, widely listening to the opinions and ideas of residents, not only protects their right to information, participation, and decision-making, but also better meets their needs. Look, go deep into the scene, thoroughly investigate and grasp the most concerned and direct demands of residents. Going out, by visiting, learning, communicating, and exchanging, we aim to find practical methods that are suitable for our community. Please come in and invite multiple parties, including co construction units, to come together and provide suggestions and expand the community governance circle of friends.

During the project implementation process, many autonomous experts were identified, forming a tiered team of "old, middle, young, and young". The upgrading and renovation of the corridors and stairs have been well received by residents, attracting more forces to participate and work together to improve the environment of the community.

The upgraded and renovated corridor has become the main venue for residents to carry out community activities. Since last year, Fengshe Xiyuan Community has carried out more than 10 community integration activities mainly focused on science popularization under the corridor, with over 1000 participants. By using corridors and science popularization themed activities as a link, residents were able to "step out of small homes and integrate into big ones" in participating in activities, achieving a qualitative change from "observing" to "participating".

The "Neighborhood Sky Green Corridor" project has brought various changes to the community. Not only does it promote the improvement of community public space, but it also consolidates people's consensus, enlivens neighborhood relationships, and helps multiple stakeholders in the community integrate into a community governance community where everyone has a responsibility, everyone is responsible, and everyone enjoys it.

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Beicai Town

Walking into Dejinyuan, located at Lane 620, Chenchun Road, the wall paintings with old Shanghai style are particularly eye-catching. The "Yujie Bridge" and "Hongqiao Bridge", which record the history of Northern Cai, carry the memories of the post-70s and post-80s generation, such as "rolling iron rings", "building houses", and the special food "steamed buns" and "fried buns". The vivid paintings seem to lead people into the corridor of time.

Dejinyuan was delivered in 2016, with a total of 990 households and a total population of around 2800. Among them, migrant workers account for more than half of the total population of the community. In order to help these homeowners better integrate into Shanghai and understand Beicai, the neighborhood committee has combined the achievements of the first and second phases of Jinyuan, combined with their own actual situation, and formulated the "Impression Beicai" project for the third phase of Jinyuan.

At the beginning of the project, the person in charge organized a self governance fund research meeting with the property management, property committee, and resident representatives. Everyone brainstormed and actively discussed, drawing on the successful experience of holding the "Impression of Beicai" rural landscape theme exhibition on the second floor corridor of the neighborhood committee, combined with the nostalgia of nearly 1800 migrants and some elderly people in the community, and after discussion, it was decided to move the theme exhibition of the second floor corridor outdoors through murals to further expand the display content.

Thus, the Jinyuan Phase III project, which uses building walls as carriers and uses painting to showcase the customs and traditions of old Shanghai, was officially launched.

Under the leadership of the Chenqiao Neighborhood Committee, a volunteer team led by college students with artistic skills was established in Dejinyuan to repaint the walls of the entrance and exit of the central underground parking lot in the community, depicting the rural scenery, local sentiment, and culinary style on the walls.

In order to echo the painting theme of "Impression of Beicai" in the third phase of Jinyuan, volunteers also cleaned and organized the first and second phases of Jinyuan. Volunteers from the Jinyuan Green Protection Group also participated and supplemented and beautified the first, second, and third phases with flowers, plants, and trees.

"Since the establishment of this' small garden 'in the community, we all like to come here to chat and see the flowers." Aunt Wang, who has lived in the community for many years, said, "The photos I took here have received a lot of praise on my social media. Everyone thought I was visiting an art exhibition."

Data: Beicai Town, Caolu Town