In China，a considerable number of urban residents live in old residential community with shabby and poorly maintained buildings，incomplete supportive facilities and messy environments. Suffering from lagged daily management and treatment as a result of the absence of property management agency，such residential community are gradually becoming a weak link in urban governance and community governance，of which the environmental improvement and transformation has been an important part in the current urban governance. Basing itself on its actual conditions and leveraging its advantages，Guang'anmennei Sub-district has designated Xuanxi Community as a pilot for environmental management through effective measures，thus further improving the residential environment and apparently raising the quality of life and the sense of happiness of the residents. Such efforts have innovated the mechanism for environmental governance of old residential community，a new environmental governance pattern of resident participation and social facilitation integrating voluntary services and social organizations，which is of certain references to the environmental governance of residential community without property management agencies.