Research On Social Stability Risk Management Of Major Projects

According to the general rules of world economic development and social evolution, the process that a country or region’s per capita GDP growing from$1,000rising to$3,000, is a critical period of easily causing economic and psychological imbalance, social disorder, reconstructing social ethics, as well as social risks. China is presently in this period. In addition, many governments have launched large-scale projects in recent years, with deep reform and opening-up and development of urbanization. Although the government’s major projects are favorable to the people initially, in fact the implementation process inevitably involves land acquisition, house demolition, residents’ resettlement, environmental changes and other sensitive topics, that can easily lead to social conflict and even violence activities, collective petition etc, becoming a source of social stability risks. All these challenges that governments need to face directly now.Based on social stability risk management of major projects in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the paper analyzes the trend of social stability risk management of major projects in other small cities in China. Quzhou City has the common features of constructing major projects, anti risk ability of cadres, but it has made a useful exploration of innovating social stability risk management from focusing on low-cost sustainable development and integration of resources. These approaches not only are consistent with maintaining social stability and multi governance concept, but also are typical and representative within a certain range.This paper is divided into four parts. First, the paper summarizes specific initiatives of major projects risk management in Quzhou, and analyzes mainly from the perspectives of scientific assessment, comprehensive consideration of assessment results,the establishment of risk prevention envolution and efforts to reducing risks. Secondly, the paper summarizes the effectiveness of social stability risk management of Quzhou from the aspects of promoting public management, enhancing public decision, innovating social management and optimizing public participation. Thirdly, the analysis highlights the problem mainly from five aspects of risk management awareness, institutional mechanisms, scientific evaluation, information technology degree and basic security. Fourthly, the paper proposes some suggestions to create social stability risk management models, such as promoting social trust, strengthening institutional innovation, improving organizational structures and level of governance.