The elevation of grass-root social governance is an integral part of the capacity-building for national governance. The capacity-building for social governance is relevant to the overall situation of the reform and development of mega-cities in our country，for the present and for a period from now on. Empirical data show that the awareness of self-governance by the town community resident needs to be further raised，their willingness to take initiative should be strengthened，the conditions on which the residents participate the building of town community and residents’ self-governance should be improved. As a consequence，it is worthy of further discussion on how to facilitate the reaching of consensus in the governance community and how the participation of diversified actors enhances the “properly perceived self-interests”.