To achieve social stability, order and harmony, we must ensure the smooth flow of social appeal channels.
-Smooth channels for expressing social demands. It is normal that China, which is in the process of social transformation, will inevitably encounter such contradictions and difficulties. After so many years of reform and opening up, the social structure of China has undergone profound changes. The original single social structure is gradually broken, and the social structure is increasingly diversified, which will produce various differences and contradictions. To express the interests and values of different social classes and groups requires our society to provide a relatively smooth channel for expressing their demands. To this end, we should further broaden the channels for expressing social demands, reduce unnecessary links that hinder the timely and efficient transmission of social demands, clear the circulation channels in time, and ensure the effective expression of social demands. In addition, it is worth noting that in order to give consideration to the fairness of different social classes and social groups in expressing their demands as much as possible, we must take care of the interests and aspirations of the disadvantaged groups and ensure that their voices are effectively expressed.
-To realize the smooth appeal channels, we must give full play to the social communication function of news media. As the mouthpiece of the Party and the people, the mass media must express people's interests and wishes. Judging from the current media development in China, the media has shown a strong sense of social responsibility, and the broad masses of the people are also quite satisfied. However, the media need to do further work in terms of the breadth and depth, efficiency and effectiveness of communication to meet the requirements of social communication under the new situation. While actively expanding the supply of media communication, we should ensure the high quality and efficiency of social communication.
-further establish and improve the government spokesman system. In recent years, our government has vigorously promoted the press spokesman system and achieved remarkable results. This is an effective mechanism to unblock public information circulation channels and promote communication between the government and society. The popularity of the news spokesman system has reduced the misunderstanding and prejudice of the society towards the government, realized the benign interaction between the government and society, and contributed to the orderly and healthy development of public opinion. However, some departments and localities still have some shortcomings in understanding the news spokesman system. They think that the government has set up a spokesperson to control public opinion, understand the gatekeeper function of the spokesperson unilaterally, and misunderstand the proper function of the spokesperson. In fact, the role of government spokesman is greater than that of gatekeeper, and it needs the role of government spokesman, not only to control public opinion, but to guide public opinion through communication. It can be said that the press spokesman system in China has made a good start, and there is still a long way to go, and there will be many difficulties and challenges, because our society has become more and more complicated and people's demands have become more and more abundant.
-Establish and improve social early warning and emergency response mechanisms to improve the ability to respond to emergencies. We believe that it is not terrible for a society to encounter difficulties or even crises. The key lies in its ability to solve problems and resolve crises. International experience tells us that when the per capita GDP is 1 1,000-3,000 US dollars, social conflicts are frequent. In addition, China is in a critical period of social transformation, and social contradictions will inevitably intensify. This requires us to be fully prepared in psychological and institutional arrangements. Once we encounter problems and crises, we will not be in a hurry and lose our minds. After all, crises and emergencies are not the normal state of society, but we should not be careless. Generally speaking, our social early warning and emergency response ability is still relatively weak, and it can not meet the requirements of solving social contradictions under the new situation. This requires giving full play to the social supervision function of mass media, perfecting the mechanism of social interest coordination and social dispute mediation, establishing and improving the social early warning system, emergency rescue and social mobilization mechanism, and improving the ability to deal with emergencies.
To smooth the channels of expression of appeals, we need to work hard on institutional innovation and institutional innovation. We need to emancipate our minds and carry out institutional innovation on the basis of sorting out the existing social appeal channels and adjusting the structure. The Fifth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee has set a directional goal for us, and the specific innovation work needs to be implemented step by step in practice.