Petition System Research Of Gansu Province

The petition system should be defined as an ‘Auxiliary political system under the constitutional system’, which focus on the functions of mediating dispute and right relieving, rather than the functions of supervising. Furthermore, integration of it’s own organization and implementation of responsibilities should also be the way to improve the petition system. Also, transferring public appeals into a free way to express public opinions as well as dredging the channel of letters should also be considered. In addition to above methods, to leave the Bureau of Letters & Calls is only responsible for the drafting of relevant petition laws and regulations, but not in charge of complaint letters,visits cases,or interfering with judicial independence any longer.This paper discuss the rationality and applicability of the system of political petition in China, which research from the background of current situation and the development of the petition system in Gansu Province. Based on the data analysis for the past five years and the case analysis of petition system, this paper get some objective and in-depth cognition on Gansu petition system, and then, with the integration of the development of Chinese petition system, this paper acknowledge that the petition system which has Chinese characteristics is rational, and it consist with the national conditions of China.The first chapter of this paper through collating and sorting the research,comments and viewpoints of the petition system of China of present academic members, summarizes the main viewpoints of abolish group, intensive group and displaced group. Then, in the second chapter, the writer particularly discusses how does Gansu petition system work. Emphasizing on the data, the writer gets the in-depth cognitions on Gansu petition system, and finds out relatively distinctive working model. The third chapter based on the typical cases of petition case dossier,intensively introduces the difficulties in developing the petition system of Gansu and the potential problems. Finally, by integrating the valuable domestic and international approaches and experiences, the forth chapter give some suggestions on the improvement of Gansu petition system.The main point of this paper is that, by deeply discussing the standpoints of petition department and the petitioners, sorting the typical problems on running Gansu petition system, through analyzing the difficulties in developing the petition system of Gansu, and integrating the valuable domestic and international approaches and experiences, it tries to give some feasible suggestions to the petition system of China.