Abstract: Under the guidance of the national social service purchase and evaluation policy, the professional service evaluation of social work stations in towns (sub-districts) across China has been shaped by the integration of various theoretical frameworks including positivism and constructivism. The professional service assessment of social work stations in towns (sub-districts) has undergone 14 years of development since 2010 in G city in the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, which could be characterized into five distinct stages: initial, decentralized, unified, optimized, and transformed. Each stage exhibits both similarities and differences in terms of goals, subjects, content systems, and other aspects. The logical evolution of professional service evaluation is reflected in three levels of “context value tool”: First, ate the context level, the evolution reflects in the transition of government departments from exploration and cultivation to precise management of the social work profession; Second, at the value level, it illustrate a shift in the evaluation system from professional supremacy to a dual emphasis on both professional and administrative aspects; Third, at the tool level, the evolution is characterized by a change in data collection methods from from qualitative approaches to a hybrid evaluation model. Based on the logical evolution of administrative orientation and technological rationality, the operational framework of social work stations in towns (sub-districts) needs to address several critical issues, including the challenges of the alienation of supervisory functions, the prevalence of short-term task-oriented service styles, the weakening of service recipients’ participation, and the balancing of refined evaluation practices.

Key words: township (Sub-District) social work station, professional service evaluation, administrative orientation, technical rationality