Abstract:Xi Jinping stressed that urban governance is an important part of the modernization of China’s governance system and capacity, and first-class cities should have first-class governance. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, Xi Jinping has made a series of important remarks on how to improve and perfect urban social governance. These remarks include the following aspects. First of all, the remarks emphasizes the party’s leadership status and the governance system in which the party committee’s leadership should be perfected and other social layers’ participation is supposed to be arranged orderly. Secondly, the remarks make it clear that the urban governance should be people-orientated, which must be upheld in the whole process of urban social governance. Next, the grassroots community governance should be innovated and perfected by shifting the focus downward to primary-level governance and removing the last hurdle in connecting and serving people of the party and governments. Besides, the remarks refresh the ideas and clarify in detail how to implement urban social governance in delicate, intellectualized, and legalized ways.