1月28日召开的中共中央政治局会议指出，各地区各部门要从巩固党的执政基础和维护国家政权安全的高度，推进基层治理体系和治理能力现代化建设。会议强调，要加强党对基层治理的领导，提高基层治理效能。

The Party's leadership of its grassroots organizations should be strengthened to increase its efficiency of governance, according to a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee held on Jan 28. Modernization of the system and capacity for primary-level governance was highlighted at the meeting as important work concerning the Party's governance foundation and the security of State power.

把基层党组织建设成为宣传党的主张、贯彻党的决定、领导基层治理、团结动员群众、推动改革发展的坚强战斗堡垒。

Primary-level Party organizations should play a key role in publicizing the Party's propositions, implementing the Party's decisions, leading grassroots governance, uniting and mobilizing the people, and promoting reform and development.

——2019年11月2日至3日，习近平在上海考察时强调

加强社区治理体系建设，推动社会治理重心向基层下移，发挥社会组织作用，实现政府治理和社会调节、居民自治良性互动。

We will strengthen the system for community governance, shift the focus of social governance to the community level, leverage the role of social organizations, and see that government's governance efforts on the one hand and society's self-regulation and residents' self-governance on the other reinforce each other.

——2017年10月18日，习近平在中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会上的报告