Research On Grassroots Petition System Reform:Problems And Solutions

Petition, means that citizens, legal persons or other organizations can reflect the situation, give their own suggestions, comments or complaints and requests to governments at all levels and departments by adopting letters, visits and other forms,which will be dealt with by the associated office according to the law. The purpose of petition is to maintain the close contact between the people’s government at all levels and the masses, protect the legal rights of petitioners, preserve the order of petition. As a special phenomenon in our political life, petition has played a certain role in administrative remedies recently. However, numerous contradictions and problems have been reflected through channels of petition, because of profound changes in economic system and social structure and the pattern of benefits. The petition apartment has extended its work center from the original simple acceptance and transmitting to the "prevention, interceptor, guide, stability control" to petitioner, which has totally violated the original intention of petition system designed by<Regulations on Petition>. The existing construction of grass-roots petition system, i.e. guide the petition with the Party’s policy, can no longer meet the present require of petition and the rule of law.In huli district as an example, this paper discusses the practice of the grass-roots petition system reform exploration and practical difficulties, put forward opinions or Suggestions to push forward the reform of grass-roots petition system. This thesis is divided into four parts. The first part is an introduction of the backgrounds, research review, and research methods. Also the main results and existing limitations of current grass-roots petition system have been expounded in this part. The second part is the practical exploration of petition system revolution in Huli District, this paper introduced the process of petition "route map", the collections between petition and litigation, arbitration. Besides, it introduced how to make good petition prevention and screening, how to handle the public emergencies, and how to enhance the petition effectiveness. Thirdly, it is pointed out that there are some real dilemma during the process of grass-roots petition system. Such as the complexity of petition problems, the limited function of petition, the illegality of petition behavior, the destructive and short-term of petition to legality and fairness. Fourth, the way to advance grass-rooted petition revolution is put forward. And it is proposed that during social transformation, how can the petition institution orientation itself accurately, how to innovate the petition entity relief system, how to reform the petition working method together with the effective connection with the rule of law. The importance of Top-level design and practical design of the system on the petition sophisticated system of petition reform.