Abstract: The process of Chinese-style modernization requires professional social work to enter a new stage of development and demonstrate more positive effectiveness in governance practice. From the perspective of the localization process of social work, the early stage is more about the co-progress of technology transplantation and value internalization, and then focusing on strengthening the mutual construction of specialization and localization, and gradually to realize the integration of social work in the local area. Given the new requirements of economic, social and people’s livelihood development under the new process of Chinese-style modernization, we strive to advance the transformation from localization to new localization, from embedded participation to Mosaic and symbiosis, and integrate the governance system with Chinese characteristics on the basis of the original initial localization to more effectively promote the local practice of social work. However, under the current national and social conditions in China, the professional development and effectiveness of social work are greatly hindered by several barriers. These barriers include the lack of a structural position and political legitimacy in the governance system, the decline of professional discourse power under the insufficient development of the legal system, the lack of professional identity under limited social recognition, and the weak coordination ability under the path dependence system. Hense, to integrate social work into the governance system and effectively address people’s well-being under the demands of high-quality development, it may be beneficial to explore new localized social work practices by focusing on aspects of political legitimacy construction, institutional mechanism transformation, professional talent team, multiple linkage system, etc.

Key words: Chinese modernization, localization, new localization, transformation logic