With the profound reform nationwide, the rapid social changes lead to sharp contradictions. As a manifestation of social conflicts, the frequency of group incidents keeps an increasing momentum, especially at "joint" position, the most vulnerable "political stress" at the county territory. The government at the county level is a connecting link in the administrative structure, which concentrates contradictions with the fiercest manifestation, for example, Wengan Incident in Guizhou, Nankang Incident in Jiangxi, Shishou Incident in Hubei, Yihuang Incident in Jiangxi and other typical group incidents all took place in counties.At the same time, the widespread of new communication tools like internet and3G phones as well as the sudden rise of micro-blog, Wechat and other wireless network client ends make it possible to disseminate the sudden group incidents in real time. When the group incident happens, the information of the incident can be exposed on the internet at first time, attracting people’s attention and forming public statement after information forwarding and discussions. In the environment of new media, it is difficult for the government to regulate the media by enforcing power, so it can only control the influence caused by the group incidents through "guarding the information". Once there is misconduct of the public opinions coped with by the government, it is possible to lead to the public statement crisis with regard to the government departments. It can be seen from the wide discussions caused by the sudden group incidents that the network media not only promotes the incidents, but also poses quite a difficulty for the government to cope with the public statement crisis.The government at county level, restricted by limited resources, a lack of emergency response mechanism, lower overall quality of the civil servicemen and other objective factors, doesn’t behave well to cope with the public statement crisis caused by the sudden group incidents. This study, with the government at the county level as the research subject of public statement study, conducts a further study on the behaviors and problems existed of the government coping with the public statement by analyzing "Yihuang Incident in Jiangxi" and "Melon Farmer Incidents in Linwu"; it also summaries relevant experiences and comes up with correspondent strategies. It hopes to provide a practical and workable suggestion to the government in coping with the public statements caused by the sudden group incidents. |