Positive Interaction Between Government and Society in the Innovation of Grassroots Social Governance

—China's social governance model has experienced four development periods: the traditional social period, the beginning of PRC, the reform and opening up, and the modern society. From the initial "social management" to the current "social governance", the difference in only one word implies the constant friction and debugging of the management role of government and the autonomous status of the society. There is no doubt that the government is a pioneering force and also a leading force in the process of social governance. However, it is not sufficient to rely solely on the government's mandatory control to govern the grassroots society. Based on government's intervention extent, the relationship between government and society can be divided into government-embedded grassroots social governance mechanism and social-autonomous grassroots social governance mechanism. For government-embedded grassroots social governance mechanism, the grassroots governance may be failed if there is no internal autonomy of the social foundation. The innovation of grassroots social governance is to change the usual situation of “government dominant” and clarify and balance the relationship between government and society. Hence, the government as an external "intervention factor" must reduce its "embedding" extent; in addition, the society must play its driving role to complete self-governance on the society; finally, the "external" government and "internal" society should interact with each other and produce good interaction effect to achieve better social governance.