Study On Current Situation And Countermeasures Of Local Government Petition Work

With the opening and reform further development, China’s political and economicsystem structure, social interest structure and people’s ideas has changed profoundly.That brings great vitality and power to the social development, but leads to socialconflicts increased and social conflicts intensified and sharpened at the same time.Compared to the process complex and costly judicial way, people in the choice ofseeking way to safeguard their rights and interests, will often choose the petition way,which is more direct-expressed and lower-costly. Petition becomes a specificreflection of the social contradictions and conflicts in the process of socialtransformation and interests pattern adjusting largely. In recent years, the petitionwork in our country is in grim situation, and the petition problem has become thefocus and difficult problem of the government work at all levels, while the localgovernment petition work becomes the key point and a focus of the entire petitionwork. The success or failure of the local government petition work decided grassrootssocial stability, and has a relationship with the whole society develops stably andharmonious. Based on these, the author chooses the petition work of H Area inGuangzhou City as an object of study and does a research on it. Then analysis thesituations and challenges in the local government petition work. That includes thecurrent situations of petition work of H area putting a negative effect on the LocalGovernment, putting forward higher requirements to the petition system, thelegalization petition work, the current terms of reference of the petition departments,agencies and personnel quality, and Challenges on the rule of law and the legalauthority of the petition. And then put forward specific countermeasures to improvethe local government petition work in China. To set up some scientific ideas for localgovernments’ petition work such as people-oriented, doing services for the people andattaching importance to innovation. Speed up the legislation of petition work andimprove the legalization construction of the local governments’ petition work.Developing people’s livelihood and social programs vigorously in order to improvepeople’s livelihoods and decrease the masses turning to the higher authorities for helpfrom the headstream. Improving the petition performance evaluation mechanism andperfecting the petition work evaluation indicators system to improve governments’petition work performance and quality. To expand and clear channels for localgovernments’ petition work, that brings convenience for people to express their demands and ask for help. Attaching great importance to Improve the staffs’comprehensive qualities in petition work teams. Moreover, emphasizing that theorystudies should combine well with practice in order to improve the staff members’actual practical service abilities and service quality. With all kinds of measures toresolve the dilemmas and challenges in current local governments’ petition work, thatleads to the society developing harmony and keeping stably finally.