A Study On Construction Of City Government Crisis Management System In China

City government crisis management is that city government adopts all of behaviors to process the sudden crisis and the government adopts the legal systems, management measures and all of the resources to dell with the course of crises, which can prevent, respond, handle, and eliminate the crisis, also can resume the steady of society, safeguard public interest, elevate the confidence and achieve the steady of developments.When we came into the 21st century, we confronted kinds of crisis, such as the"9.11"of the USA, the extending of England ox insanity, the exploding of Indonesia (Oct.2002, Oct.2005), the tsunami of Indian Ocean, the inundation of New Orleans and the turbulence incident of Paris suburban. In the spring of 2003, we experience the SARS. The SARS told us that our city government had weak consciousness of crisis management, had lagging transmitting of information and had the weak total management systems.The theoretical researches on city government crisis management of China are really dropped behind. And the government has weak power to handle virtual crisis. Under the circumstance, it is really a urgent task for municipal governments of all ranks, as well as an important academic subject for scholars, to set up city government crisis management system, enhance crisis management's power, safeguard lives and property of people, and maintain social stability.Starting with introduction, this essay introduces the research background, aims and significance, and research methodology. In the next part, definitions of crisis management and city government crisis management, home and abroad, are expatiated. And a proper definition, available in the essay, is given; the main contents and features of city government crisis management are illustrated. And simultaneously, the author gives a detailed presentation on literature review home and abroad and present studies.On one hand, combining with cases, the author describes status quo of city government crisis management of China, achievement of our governments, and present problems and deficiency as well as its causes. The aim of the essay is to put forth countermeasures on how to set up city government crisis management of China on the basis of our practical situation and advantages abroad. Conclusion is drawn at the end.