中文摘要：

实现市民美好生活的关键,取决于城市政府能力,尤其是城市政府公共服务能力。对中国城市政府公共服务能力进行评估,是推进中国城镇化和实现城市善治的重要手段。城市发展必须以市民需求作为出发点和依归,而城市公共服务能力则是城市政府通过公共服务供给减少市民需求与市民满足之间差异的能力。这一能力又可具体区分为三个维度：需求识别能力、服务供给能力、学习成长能力。基于2013年对全国19个副省级城市的调查发现,服务供给能力不等于城市政府能力,需求识别能力才是城市政府能力的关键要素。

英文摘要：

In achieving a better life for Chinese urban citizens,the capacity of municipal government,particularly its capacity to deliver public services,plays the key role.Evaluation of Chinese municipal public service capacity is an important approach to improve Chinese urbanization and governance in cities.Urban development must be based on the concept of citizens＇ request for public services and the capacity of municipal government to deliver public services,which is defined as the ability to minimize the gap between what citizens request and what they actually gain.There are three dimensions within the concept of government capacity：identification of citizens＇ request,provision of public services,and learning and development.The survey data collected form 19sub-provincial cities in 2012 reveal that the capacity to provide public services is not equal to that of municipal government,and its key indicator is the capacity to identify citizens＇ request.