The Impact Of Beijing Municipal Government 's Press Release On Political Stability

In recent years, the rising frequency of sudden public events cause significantlosses to people’s lives and properties, testing the government abilities to cope withcrises. Those abilities require the government to control and dredge the public opinionand feedback information to people timely. Among numerous institutions, thegovernment news release plays a vital role in dealing with sudden public events,promoting government image and credibility and safeguarding the political and socialstability, especially in countering with sudden public events.Theories of political system proposed by David Easton’s and political stabilityproposed by Samuel P. Huntington’s provide a better method to analysis the effect ofgovernment news release on political and social stability. This article puts thegovernment news release into the political system to analysis its impact on input andoutput of political system and explain its effect on political stability using the theoryof political stability, which provides a better explanation to its effect in dealing withsudden public events and the establishment and development itself.Beijing had established the system of government news release in early days andit developed to a more mature level. The news release system have been playing avital role in maintaining political stability since it was erected, especially in dealingwith sudden public events. Viewed from the theoretical point or the practical point,the involvement of Beijing government news release exerts positive influence onpolitical system in links such as system input, system output and feedback and thuspromotes the political stability and effectiveness of political system in dealing withsudden public events, and maintains the stability and continuity of political systemand safeguards political and social stability.