As an important way to realize the people's longing for a better life, building a happy city is of great significance to improving the quality of life of the people and building a modern and powerful socialist country. This article first sorts out the three major difficulties facing the construction of a happy city at present, including the binary opposition between "villages in the city" and urban high-rise buildings, the imbalance of public resource supply caused by the concentration of urban population, and the imperfection of the urban ecological civilization system. On this basis, corresponding countermeasures are put forward from the three levels of the country, society and individuals, covering aspects such as consolidating the economic foundation, innovating social governance, and updating ideas and concepts.

Jiawei Long. Research on the Dilemma and Countermeasures of Happy City Construction. International Journal of Frontiers in Sociology (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 11: 24-30. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFS.2023.051104.

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