Guangdong provincial authorities will allow more social organizations to be established to encourage the public to become more involved in managing social affairs, a top government official said.

"We are building a new mode of social management, which will lead to more involvement by Party leadership and participation by the public," Zhu Xiaodan, the newly elected governor of Guangdong, told reporters on Friday at the annual session of the National People's Congress.

The change is part of social reforms that are being adopted by the provincial government, which has been overburdened by its attempts to manage social affairs in the past, Zhu said.