Abstract:

Urban villages, a mixture of urban and rural communities, emerge in the process of urbanization. Due to historic environment and institutional mechanisms, urban villages are often lost in disorder of management and layout. The reason is that community public services are not in place and do not fill in gaps between public demands from rural communities to urban ones. At present, reform and development of public services in urban villages still have many problems in government functions, organizational construction, service system, material base, and personnel structure. With Xintai City as an example, this article makes a research on the present situation of public services in the process of urban village reconstruction, trying to find ways out of difficulties in public service construction in urban villages.

Key words: urbanization, urban villages, community, public demand, public services