How the CPC Links the Society: The Governance Actor Supplement and Social Construction in Urban Community Party Building

Communities are “small incisions” reflecting changes of the social situation. Community party building stems from responses to various changes and pressures in the grass-roots society, which objectively reflects the inherent needs of the Communist Party of China construction, political and social development in the transition period. Based on the theory of “party links society”, an analysis framework of “organization mobilization, resource linkage, service linkage” has been constructed, and the logic of community party building was analyzed. The research shows that the community has become a constitutional unit of the “secondary society construction” after the first one “work-unit society”. The community party building has the dual nature of “political construction” and “social construction”. On the basis of trying to control the social order, community party building shows the intention of forging a realistic and future-oriented social construction, which is a realistic choice for the China’s modernization process and the ideal of social construction of the CPC in the past century. The “socialization” mechanism of the party building is crucial to the “linkage between the party and society”. The party building in communities needs to grasp the principle of “one core, two transformations, and three steps”.