Analysis and Thoughts on China's Public Crisis Management and Government Responsibility in the Transitional Period

A society in its development will face numerous pressure and challenges which would cause social disorder, hinder social development and progress if these problems are underappreciated and remain unsolved. China has gone through the great reform of opening up and the society changes in various manners. Currently, China is under the significant transitional period in terms of politics, economy, culture and science and technology. Transition would lead to instability and reduce China's self-relief capability. For any country, public crisis would influence social order and for China under transition, public crisis would cause more hinder for its development. Government's attitude and ability are key to solving public crisis. If the government shoulders its responsibility, the crisis-causing loss would be reduced the minimum standard or even prohibited from the beginning. The paper aims to analyze the reasons that causing public crisis and point out the present situation of our government in managing public crisis and propose some suggestions on improving government's public crisis management ability.