For a long time, the guerrilla warfare between urban management and urban vendors in China has been an unfavourable factor for the stable development of the society, and at the same time, the governance of urban vendors is also one of the challenges for the inclusive urban construction planning in the 21st century. However, the negative image of urban vendors as "urban invaders" is merely an object of service under the political economy, and the positive impact of the vendor economy cannot be ignored. How to solve the dilemma of spatial governance of itinerant hawkers is a pressing problem that concerns people's lives. This paper begins with an introduction to the development history of the hawker economy, analyses its natural attributes and characteristics as well as the dilemmas it faces, and studies the development path of urban hawker governance based on Foucault's idea of governance and from the perspective of mediated survival, with a view to providing certain countermeasures and insights for future urban planning and governance.

Liu Xuanqi. Natural Attributes of City Vendors, Governance Dilemmas and Countermeasures. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 10: 43-48. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051009.

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