A Research On Chinese Government's Management Ability Of Public Crisis In The Transitional Period

With the deepening of reform, China has entered into an initial period of building a well-off society in all-round way and a crucial period of social transition, meanwhile, a period of a frequent occurrence of public crisis as well. There is not only the traditional type of crisis, but also the natural disaster, such as the infectious disease, the meteorological disaster, the marine calamity, the flood disaster and the earthquake, still threat the lives of the people and the social security; moreover, in the modernized advancement with the symbol of the industrialization and cities, there emerged unceasingly and intensified social public crises such as unemployment, rich and poor differentiation, industrial accident, labor conflict and criminal offense as well as the threat of the radiation, the pollution, the medicine abuses when using modern high tech product, as well as in the reform and open policy and the process of socialist market economy, people's traditional morality, value system suffers the impact initiates belief crisis and so on.The government, as the superintendent of social public affairs and the provider of public product and service, how to prevent the danger promptly and effectively, deal with each kind of public crisis, turn the crisis into the turning point, already became an important issue in the transition period to test our government's administrative ability as well as the ability to control the complex situation and meet the crisis event. The public crisis event is a huge test on government's synthesizing capacity regarding reaction rate, communication mechanism, coordinated ability, the service condition and so on. Government crisis management ability is one of modern government necessary important abilities, which is an important target weighs the government management level. Whether the government can rapidly deal with the crisis, stable the social order, reduce economic loss, safeguard society harmonious development or not during the crisis already becomes the major issue which in the next certain period our government will have to pay high attention, which also is the most realistic challenge the government faces.China society is in the transition period, with profound transformation in economic system, profound change in social structure, profound adjustment in benefit pattern and profound change in thought idea. In such transformation process, the benefit and the authority will redistribute and transfer between the different main body, which will form many unstable factors, this will be the crucial phase which each kind of public crisis event exist frequently, public crisis in this period will have a brighter characteristic: the crisis event presents with high frequency and in large-scale; the diversification in domain; the enhancement in organization, violence, hazardous; the diversification in undulation way; internationalization degree enlarge.Owing to the transition period, current public crisis features complexity and pluralism. In addition, our government has many weaknesses in coping with public crisis, such as government's weak consciousness in public crisis management, incomplete legal system for public crisis management, and inadequate non-government participation, unsound mechanism on disclosure of government information, backwardness of management mechanism, etc. Under the circumstances, this thesis starts with basic theory in public crisis, based on the actual reforming background of contemporary China society, and then it attempts to analyze the features of public crisis in the transitional period, described present situation on the government's managed capacity research. What's more, the thesis summarizes the government public crisis management basic principle by borrowing advanced ideas from domestic and foreign governments, including: humanist principle; safeguards the public security for the final goal principle; rapid response principle; decisive policy-making principle; efficiency first principle; information public principle. Meanwhile, the thesis puts forward the concrete measures to improve government's management ability for public crisis, for example: the value crisis realizes raise; perfect public crisis management related legal laws and regulations; perfect government public crisis management system; the consummation arises suddenly the public crisis emergency predetermined plan, the enhancement public crisis forewarns ability; profits from the overseas experience, the enhancement international cooperation; promotes way and ability which the citizen participation. All these will have the theoretical and academic value for a system of proper government's countermeasures against public crisis. Furthermore, the thesis will offer an approach for the government to deal with the public crisis scientifically and rationally.