Social governance is an important area of ​​national governance. Improving the level of social governance is inseparable from the infiltration and empowerment of culture. China's excellent traditional culture is profound and profound, and contains rich governance wisdom and humanistic spirit, providing abundant resources for social governance.

In October 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Liuchi Lane, Tongcheng City, Anqing City, Anhui Province and emphasized: "We must strengthen historical and cultural protection, adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, work together to develop advanced socialist culture, promote revolutionary culture, and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and lay a solid cultural foundation for social governance." Liuchi Lane has a wide world, and a small alley has witnessed a story of mutual courtesy and harmony as the most important thing more than 300 years ago. According to legend, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Palace and Minister of Rites named Zhang Ying. His family in Tongcheng had a dispute with his neighbor Wu's family due to a gap in the house. The Zhang family asked Zhang Ying for help. Zhang Ying wrote in his letter, "A book is just for a wall, so why not let him three feet?" After receiving the letter, the Zhang family took the initiative to give up three feet, and the Wu family was moved by this and gave up three feet. In this way, there is a good story in Liuqi Lane. To promote harmony with the concession and to educate people, the Six-foot Lane contains the Chinese nation's profound grassroots governance experience and wisdom. Today, the "Liuqi Lane" experience has been applied to judicial mediation. The six-step mediation method of "listening, discerning, persuading, borrowing, giving in, and reconciling" effectively guides both parties to contradict each other, and has been tested in practice in resolving conflicts, eliminating differences, and building consensus, and has been recognized by the masses. In November 2023, the "New Era Six-Foot Lane Working Method" was named an advanced model of the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "China's present has developed from China's yesterday and the day before yesterday. To govern today's China, we need to have an in-depth understanding of our country's history and traditional culture, and we also need to actively summarize the exploration and wisdom of our country's ancient governance." Improving the social governance system and improving the level of social governance is a great subject with a sense of historical and cultural heaviness. Many phenomena and problems encountered can be found in history. Many things that have happened in history can also be used as mirrors for today's social governance. The excellent traditional Chinese culture is the crystallization and essence of Chinese civilization, the root and soul of the Chinese nation, contains the spiritual core and governance wisdom, has value that transcends time and space, and provides a deep cultural foundation for modern social governance. To continuously improve the level of social governance, we need to trace the roots from the excellent traditional Chinese culture, draw nutrients, creatively transform and innovatively develop the way of dealing with the world of "the use of etiquette is the most important", the value pursuit of "poverty oneself to oneself, and if one is great, one should help the world", the moral concept of "do not do to others what one does not want others", the Datong thought of "the great way is to be the public", so that it can be adapted to the practice of modern social governance, and continuously consolidate and enhance the moral foundation and legal awareness of modern social governance.

Social governance involves many aspects such as coordinating social relations, regulating social behavior, resolving social problems, resolving social conflicts, promoting social justice, responding to social risks, and maintaining social harmony. To improve the level of social governance, both rigid institutional guarantees and flexible cultural nourishment are needed. Inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture is an important aspect of laying a solid cultural foundation for social governance and playing a fundamental and key role. To integrate the excellent traditional Chinese culture into social governance, we need to strengthen the exploration, sorting, understanding and utilization of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, so that we know the truth and know the reason. On this basis, highlight the regional cultural characteristics, create a distinctive cultural symbol, and use the appeal of culture to enhance the public's sense of identity and participation in social governance.

Of course, emphasizing the important value of Chinese excellent traditional culture in social governance is not to fully inherit traditional culture without identification and cultural retroism, but to continue the Chinese cultural context in creative transformation and innovative development, and to protect, promote and develop the governance wisdom passed down through vicissitudes. On the one hand, we will focus on technology empowerment, make full use of modern information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, and promote the digital transformation, panoramic presentation and three-dimensional interpretation of China's excellent traditional cultural and ideological resources, providing strong support for improving the level of social governance. On the other hand, we should focus on synergistic efforts, vigorously develop advanced socialist culture, promote revolutionary culture, inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture, grasp the internal connection, straighten out the coordination mechanism, and anchor the coordinated efforts, so that social governance will more show its cultural heritage and more humanistic care through the gathering of strength.