Editor’s Foreword

In the first half of 2011, a new concept made its debut in China: innovations in social management (社会管理创新).Just after the Spring Festival, at a high-level training session in Beijing, Hu Jintao and two other members of the Politburo made lofty remarks on the topic. Then, in March, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan discussed and passed by the National People’s Congress offered robust arguments and specific deployments in line with the strategy. In the beginning of May, a lengthy article on the subject was featured in Truth magazine. Announcements from the Ministry of Civil Affairs heralded the commencement

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