Urban governance is an important means to realize the modernization of urban governance, and is the key to improving national governance capabilities and the modernization of governance system. Since entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of original thesis on urban development and urban governance, and the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has further pointed out the way forward for urban governance in the new era from the aspects of national governance capacity and governance system modernization. In the wave of urbanization since the reform and opening up, the Communist Party of China has adhered to the guidance of Marxism, closely grasped the reality of China's urban development, continuously innovated and developed the theory and practice of urban governance, and formed a socialist urban governance paradigm with Chinese characteristics. As a theory that reveals the deep mechanism of modern urban formation, development and governance, Marx's urban criticism and examination of the socialist urban governance paradigm with Chinese characteristics from the perspective of this perspective not only helps to deepen
the grasp of the core issues, practical challenges and practical approaches of urban governance, but also helps to innovate and develop Marx's urban critical thought based on the reality of socialist urban development with Chinese characteristics. From the perspective of core issues, Marx's urban critique provides globalization, urbanization and ecology for socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics. Globalization is a historical situation that has insight into the nature of urban governance in China, urbanization is a realistic process to grasp the mechanism of urban governance, and ecology is a strategic topic of urban governance, so the socialist urban governance paradigm with Chinese characteristics has realized the theoretical relationship with Marx's urban critical thought in the perspective of historical materialism. From the perspective of practical challenges, Marx's critical thought on cities provides a diagnostic basis for analyzing the challenges of content imbalance, process lag and inefficient effect faced by socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics. As a new urban governance paradigm formed and developed in the practice of socialist city construction, there are inevitable practical
challenges in socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics, which requires drawing useful ideological resources from Marx's critical thought on cities and further optimizing and improving socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics. From the practical approach, Marx's urban critique provides method, goal and guarantee enlightenment for guiding the socialist urban governance paradigm with Chinese characteristics. The dialectic of urban space is the methodological basis of socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics, the value of urban justice is the fundamental goal of socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics, and the equality of urban rights is the normative guarantee of socialist urban governance with Chinese characteristics.