The Research For Farmers Petition Problems

As the national economy and society enter into a fast development period, the peasants’ material and cultural life have been greatly improved, and their legal right and ideology have raised to a certain degree. However, With the rapid development of national economy and society, some contradictions of rural society are rising, and have more and more serious trend in a given period. This is the reason for more attention always paid to "three agricultural issues" by governments in china. When peasants’ rights and interests are violated,they appeal to government departments to solve their difficulties instead of enduring in the old days. Some peasants even put pressure on the government for seeking a certain kind of misfeasance benefit through the petition, which have become an important factor leading to social instability.There’s a vast area, while foundation is weak and about half of population live in the village region in china, thus it is important to value the solutions to all kinds of social contradictions for building a harmonious society and achieve the well-off society. To do the rural work well, the key problem is how to grasp all kinds of social contradictions and take relevant measures to solve them. It will contribute to reflect the actual situation of rural regions, master the nature of issues and solve the issues through combining with the actual situation of rural regions and observing the rural society according to peasants’ petitions.Petitions department is the bridge for communications between the party committees and governments and the masses, and is a major channel for the masses to reflect the social conditions and public opinions to the government. To a great extent, the quantity and nature of petition questions are the reflections of society stability. In this study, according to the point of peasants petitions, the trends of peasants petitions over recent ten years and some typical cases in Daiyue county of Tai’an city were analyzed, and concrete feasible countermeasure and systematic policies were put forward through combining with the current situation. These results will take some practical significance in rural society stability, building a new socialist countryside and the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way.This paper discusses the topic from four parts.In the first part, the profile of peasants petitions over recent ten years in Daiyue county of Tai’an city were investigated. Based on the situation of peasants petitions in Daiyue county of Tai’an city, the changing trends on quantity, structure and reasons of petitions were analyzed.The various natures of the above issues were discussed in terms of both group petitions and individual petitions. For group petitions, the traits of petitioners and organizers as well as intentions and motivations of petitions were analyzed. For individual petitions, economic status, traditional influence and personality tendency of petitioners were analyzed. In the last,peasants’ petitions in eyes of grass-roots cadres were discussed according to the evaluations of cadres from village, county and petition departments on phenomenon of peasants’ petitions.In the second part, the phenomenon of peasants petitions was primarily analyzed. The main causes of a large sum of peasants petitions were divided into nine categories including village petition, relocation petition, life difficult petition, neighbor dispute petition, land ownership petition, labor economy petition, remaining issue petition, special petition and other petition. These types of petitions were explained based on three issues of peasants’ petition occurred in Daiyue county of Tai’an city. These three issues belonged to village petition, relocation petition and land ownership petition, respectively. One was the issue of individual petition, the other two were the issues of group petition. The main causes of peasants’ petition and complicating tendencies encountered when petition problems were dealt with were concluded. The various contradictions and possible trend of non-institution political participation were discussed based on increased quantity of skipping petition, family and faction force’s participation into group petition, power-restricted village and county government and popularity of doing business outside the normal, approved channels.In the third part, the reasons for peasants’ petition were deeply analyzed from the larger picture, the bigger scope and deeper level. The reasons for peasants’ petitions were divided into seven categories including the corollary for rural economic and social development of china at the present stage, the integrated impact of traditional political culture and modern democratic consciousness, imperfect laws and regulations, deficient rural petition mechanisms, defects in supporting systems and democracy construction when government reforms, peasants’ relatively weak law awareness and petition function disorder of basic government. The analyses focused on the petition crux brought by deficient rural petition mechanism and peasants’ weak law and right awareness.In the fourth part as the main part of this paper, how to achieve success in each work and promote to steadily develop the work on peasants’ petition were emphatically discussed. Fordealing with "three agricultural issues" and following the mass line well, the priority should be put on working for steady peasants’ petition. The situation of present society development determines that petition work will face new and higher requirement and challenge. The discussions were done from two aspects in this part. The first aspect focused on grasping the exact situation of petition and maintaining rural stability through correctly understanding the present rural petition situation, solving the problems well and strengthening supervision and constraint on village cadres. The second aspects concerned on how to innovate mechanism,strengthen foundation and promote effective practice of peasants’ petition work. The measures are as following: building transmission channel of public opinions and mechanism of receiving petitions, innovating work mechanism of petition, consolidating work accountability of petition, improving petition staff’s responsibility consciousness,strengthening the construction of petition team, adjusting and consummating appraisal mechanism of present petition work and dissolving the cases legally.The properties of present peasants’ petition were explored according to phenomenon and reasons of occurred petition issue and pathways to solve the problems in these four parts. The paper was expected to present some references for government and petition department to solve peasants’ petition problems.