推动城乡基层社会组织的社会治理,建立政府与社会的平等合作伙伴关系,提高社会自治与自我服务能力,是当代社会管理的发展趋势、社会治理是和谐社会的基本社会治理模式。城乡基层社会组织的治理能力是政府能力的重要组成部分,是维系一个执政党和政府生存与发展的决定性力量。目前,学界关于城乡基层组织治理能力的探讨大都基于传统公共行政视角(即统治模式),而社会治理为城乡基层社会组织治理机制的研究提供了新视角。因此,本文从和谐社会与城乡基层组织的视角探讨社会治理的内涵、意义以及创新城乡基层社会组织的社会治理机制的选择等问题 The promotion of social governance at the grassroots level in urban and rural areas, the establishment of equal partnership between the government and society, and the improvement of social autonomy and self-service capabilities are the trends in contemporary social management. Social governance is the basic model of social governance in a harmonious society. The governance capacity of grassroots social organizations in urban and rural areas is an important component of government capacity and a decisive force for maintaining the survival and development of a governing party and government. At present, the discussion of the governance ability of grass-roots organizations in urban and rural areas is mostly based on the perspective of traditional public administration (ie, the ruling model), and social governance provides a new perspective for the study of the governance mechanism of grass-roots social organizations in urban and rural areas. Therefore, this article explores the connotation and significance of social governance from the perspective of harmonious society and grassroots organizations in urban and rural areas, as well as the selection of social governance mechanisms to innovate the social organizations at urban and rural levels