The Research Of Formation And Resolution Of Group Petition Event

Petition work is a thermometer reflecting public opinion, a bridge and link tyingwith the masses closely. A good petition work is currently an important political taskof the party and the government, the basis for building a socialist harmonious society.In recent years, the petition volume was high, especially the phenomenon of groupsof letters, it has become a sensitive topic of great concern of the community which donot only concerns the party’s and the government’s images, but also reflects themaintenance of interests of the masses. It is a long-term " livelihood " project and asystematic "Harmony " project as well.Petition as a relief valve to ease social conflicts, assumed the function of civilrights remedies, information communication, democratic supervision, but in the faceof the petition groups which is a special phenomenon, the limitations of the petitionwork continues to appear."Stable""reform","development" are three organiccomponents of China’s reform and opening up and socialist modernization drives.Stability is a prerequisite for the development is the goal. Some local governments inpursuit of political achievements, introduce the policies in haste, without weighing theinterests of the masses and proper risk assessment. However, some of the policies couldn’t connect together or the distribution of the benefits is uneven too. All of theseenhance some people’s relative deprivation feeling which causes them graduallytaking the active of cluster petition. While in solving the problem, the governmentcouldn’t grasp the critical period when they could resolve conflicts at the lowest cost,the individual departments pass the buck to each other performing their duties in aperfunctory manner. As a result, the problems are dragged conflicts are intensified andthe disposal costs are increased. Especially during the national, provincial andmunicipal two sessions and important celebrations, many local governments based onthe conception of " spend money to buy peace” try their best to make sure of securityand stability no matter what it takes., they even deal with some individual petitioncases beyond the law, policy scale, with high compensation grants expense to remainsilent, intense extreme groups petition become a game approach between thepetitioners and the government. The non-normal measures of local governments todeal with the problem of non-normal petition in extraordinary period although reacheda steady controlling effect in a short time, but in the long run, it can not achieve thedesired purpose of decreasing the petition quantity, in the other hand, it maystimulates a wave of groups petition, creating a vicious cycle.So how to understand the characteristics of such a petition activity scientifically,grasp of the best opportunity to resolve the problem and explore a scientific,effectiveand systematic preventative resolving mechanisms which can reduce the phenomenonof groups petition is an important issue faced by all levels of government and thetheory circle. In an expectation of bringing a positive influence on the solution ofgroups petition, this paper tries to discuss the disposal method of groups petitionwhich is based on the quantitative analysis of the petition letter data of WenzhouLongwan. It also want to guide readers to ponder over the formation, developmentand the quantity increase of the groups petition, chase down the existing problemsand find out the way to go out of the dilemma of preventative disposal work of groupspetition so as to reduce the phenomenon of group petition from the source, propose practical solutions in line with regional strategies.