On The Network Of Public Opinion On The Decision Of Our Government

In recent years, the group of Internet users in China kept expanding. Large amount of people tend to discuss public affairs on Internet. Therefore, the public opinions from the Internet have profound effects on government's decision-making. The public opinions from the Internet usually emerged very quickly, relevant to many areas and significantly influential. The great power of the public opinions from the Internet is supplied by the network's easy access to the public, people's hopes to be part of decision-making and the government's openness. The public opinions from the Internet contain sufficient informations that the decision-makers needed and promots more people to be interested in politics and post their viewpoints on the Internet. Moreover, the public opinions from the Internet makes government's decision-making more democratic, separates decision-maker's power and supervises the course of decision-making. Nevertheless, there are some defects about the public opinions from the Internet. The amount of the Internet users in China is just about 30% of its population, the group's opinions are not necessarily the whole people's opinion, let alone some of the Internet users are not rational enough. Consequently, some regulations is a must. On one hand, the Internet users must obey the laws and bear their moral duties in mind. On the other hand, the government needs to improve the legal system and establish the mechanism of network informations viewing, processing and replying.