Abstract: Party-building guidance is vital for enhancing community governance efficacy. Existing studies on the mechanisms of Party-building guidance tend to the proactive role of Party organizations while under-exploring the spatial dimensions of Party-building practices. Community governance inherently bears spatial attributes, and the interplay between Party-building guidance and the spatiality of community governance gives rise to “spatialized guidance”—a novel practical paradigm. Through an in-depth analysis of the construction of the CPC Service Center for the public in three typical communities in District D, this study reveals that Party organizations comprehensively steer spatial production, creating community spaces characterized by people-centered design, functional pragmatism, and public-oriented value expression. These spaces serve as mediums to strengthen Party-masses emotional bonds, generate efficient service scenarios, and shape communal norms, thereby realizing spatialized guidance. This approach has delivered significant governance outcomes: consolidating primary-level public support for the Party, enhancing community governance capacity, broadening social participation, and gradually forming a multi-stakeholder collaborative governance framework. Therefore, spatialized guidance represents a major institutional and conceptual innovation in Party-building practices, offering profound implications for advancing community governance modernization.

Key words: Party-building guidance, community governance, community space, spatialized guidance, the CPC Service Center for the public