重庆彭水县7月17日发生山崩事故，专职网格员龚宝冬在事故中失联后被证实身亡[1]。龚宝冬毕业于西南政法大学，于2025年5月考入社区担任专职网格员[1]。这起事故将公众的目光引向中国基层治理中的一项关键制度——网格化管理机制。
中国的网格化管理体系已形成完整规模，全国共划分了约400万个网格，由超过450万名网格员负责管理[1]。这一制度起源于2004年北京市东城区的试点，当时将25.38平方公里的辖区划分成1652个网格单元[1]。试点后的效果显著：城市管理问题的发现率从30%提高到90%以上，处理时间从平均一周缩短到不到1天[1]。2013年，党的十八届三中全会明确提出"以网格化管理、社会化服务为方向，健全基层综合服务管理平台"，为制度推广奠定了基础[1]。到2020年，全中国几乎所有城市社区和大部分农村都建立了网格体系[1]。
网格员的薪资待遇存在显著地区差异。经济发达地区的专职网格员月薪可达4000元、5000元或更高，而部分欠发达地区则为2000至3000元[1]。
A catastrophic landslide struck Pengshui County in Chongqing on July 17, claiming the life of full-time grid employee Gong Baodong, who went missing during the disaster before being confirmed dead.[1] The tragedy has drawn attention to China's extensive grid-based governance structure, a nationwide administrative framework that divides the country into approximately 4 million grid units managed by over 4.5 million dedicated grid employees.[1]
The grid management system originated in Beijing's Dongcheng District in 2004, when authorities began a pilot program dividing a 25.38-square-kilometer jurisdiction into 1,652 grid units.[1] Following implementation of this grid-based approach, the urban management system's problem detection rate surged from 30 percent to over 90 percent, while average resolution time plummeted from approximately one week to less than one day.[1] The model gained official endorsement at the 18th Central Committee's Third Plenum in 2013, which explicitly proposed "grid-based management and social service provision as the direction for improving grassroots comprehensive service management platforms."[1] By 2020, nearly all urban communities and most rural areas nationwide had established grid systems.[1]
Grid employment conditions vary significantly across regions.[1] Full-time grid employees in economically developed areas earn monthly salaries of 4,000 to 5,000 yuan or higher, while those in less developed areas typically receive 2,000 to 3,000 yuan monthly.[1] Gong Baodong, a graduate of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, had been employed as a full-time community grid employee since May 2024.[1]