The Research Of The Petition System In China

The petition system is a political system with distinct Chinese characteristics. Itis a general name for institutionalized and systematism mechanism and institutionswhich built by a country or region in order to regulate complaint activities，withpolitical participation, the right to relief, power supervision, communication anddispute resolve functions. All along, China’s petition system in promoting democracy,resolve people’s concerns, oppose bureaucracy, curb corruption and provide referenceinformation for decision-making has played an important role. However, with thedeepening of reform, social contradictions have become increasingly prominent,letters and questions also will continue to increase,"the petition peak" emerging,leapfrog petition, collective petition, petitioners repeated petitions and othernon-normal performance problems are more prominent. Petition amount of long-termhigh, making the contents of the petition activities involved and the impact broke thepetition system was originally designed, the petition system defect mechanisms andpatterns began to show up. Refine and improve the petition system needs to becomeincreasingly prominent.Report of the party’s18clear requirements, improving the petition system,effectively expressing the aspirations of the masses unimpeded channels playadministrative mediation, people’s mediation and judicial mediation "three tunelinkage" mechanism to protect the legitimate rights and interests of the masses. ThirdPlenary Session of the Party’s eighteen also petition to reform and improve the system,and promote the reasonable demands of the masses and timely local solutions putforward specific demands. This shows the importance of the current petition workreflects the party and the country’s determination and action to reform and improvethe petition system. Therefore, in the new historical period, careful analysis of thepetition system, deep to find problems, and further explore and improve the petition system, and play a role in dealing with complaints, with positive implications for themaintenance of social harmony and stability, promoting reform and development.This paper studies the petition system history, functions and difficulties faced, tryingto find the problem of petition system, analyze the cause of the problem bycombining national initiatives on reform petition system since the Third PlenarySession of eighteen, trying to come up petition improved routing system.