Research On Crisis Management Of Local Government

Since 2000, China has undergone a series of considerable mass incidents with increasing scale and destruction. As a major and urgent issue, the mass incidents have posed a severe challenge to the governance capacity and emergency management capabilities of the local government. The mass incidents not only an important manifestation of stage characteristic conflicts, also reflect the profound changes of the people's thinking, social structure, interest patterns, behavior patterns within the transformation of traditional society to modern society. Currently, the widespread occurrence of non-rational and violent mass incidents have put forward higher requirements to the government.The functionalism and conflict theory in sociology is the basic perspective of this paper. Respecting the social order and harmony which advocated by functionalist, as well as going to seek proper solutions to the conflicts arising base on different interests, this paper analyzes the nature of the mass incidents, characteristics, causes and hazards, explains the trend of the local government reform to the mass incidents and proposes views of how to response to the mass incidents. By author's perspective, Mass incidents appear to the challenge to emergency management; in fact is test of the daily management of local government. The mass incidents can only be prevented and solved by good regular governance and improve emergency management. On the basis of the experience of Hong Kong and Western countries, this paper concludes that local governments should correctly understand the mass incidents, to gather consensus on the reform and development, promote social equity, solve rich-poor divide, Smooth channels of dialogue the government and the people, establish and improve the mechanisms of integration and coordination of interest, and constantly enhance the administration of public opinion. On this basis, local government should keep work on to strengthen information disclosure and improve the government emergency management capabilities and strategies to reduce the harm of mass incidents.