How to identify the nature of mass incidents

The definition of "group events" is still controversial, but it is generally considered to refer to groups with certain interests. In order to achieve a certain goal, they put pressure on the party and government organs through sit-in, shock, procession and assembly. And there are incidents that destroy public and private property, endanger personal safety and disrupt social order, which can be divided into group violence incidents and group non-violent incidents.

The main features include the following aspects:

1, group

It means that every mass incident is created and participated by a group of people with a certain identity. This is the most basic feature of mass incidents. On the whole, the number of participants in mass incidents in China is on the rise, and the number of participants in mass incidents often reaches hundreds or even thousands, or even tens of thousands of people, which has been common in all parts of the country.

2. Organizational nature

At present, group events have developed from spontaneous and loose to organized, and the advance and retreat of events are directly controlled and influenced by commanders and key elements. Group events with large number of participants, long duration and large scale are often carefully planned in advance, with clear goals, unified actions and perfect organization. Some also raised funds to petition and hired lawyers to seek media support.

Step 3 imitate

Refers to the widespread demonstration and dissemination of current mass incidents. With the development of the situation, some mass incidents have expanded their influence and caused psychological abuse in the surrounding areas or stakeholders. Once a mass incident occurs in place A, place B and place C will follow suit and infect each other, so that the number of participants and areas will continue to increase and expand, and even the phenomenon of mutual contact and learning will occur.

4. harmful

At present, mass incidents often impact and destroy the country's legal order, public security order and traffic order, affect social peace and disrupt the normal work, production and life order of society.

Its harm is mainly manifested in: first, it impacts the party and government organs and disrupts the office order. Second, the blockade of railways, highways and other traffic places has caused great losses to the country and society. Third, it is easy to trigger violent incidents and cause serious casualties.

Extended data:

Evolution of the concept of group events;

On July 7, 2005, Li, Vice Minister of the Central Organization Department, clearly pointed out at the press conference that China's reform entered a critical period, and some contradictions broke out intensively, which triggered some "mass incidents". He corrected what foreign journalists called "riots" and replaced them with "mass incidents".

At the end of 2005, Zhou Yongkang, then secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Public Security, pointed out that it was necessary to "study the basic conditions and internal laws for solving mass incidents and form the principles and regular working mechanism for handling' mass incidents'". The term "mass incidents" was first put forward publicly.

On1October 1 1 day, 2007, the Emergency Response Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) came into effect. In September 2009, the Dictionary of Party Construction was reprinted by the Central Office. In the whole dictionary 10 15, 65438+.

On June 5438+February 2, 2009, the Social Blue Book of 20 10 issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences pointed out that mass incidents remained frequent in 2009, because many historical contradictions and problems accumulated in the process of accelerating development and transformation in some places could not be solved in time, and people's grievances were deep.

People's Daily Online-10 Judging the Law of Mass Incidents

Baidu Encyclopedia-Group Events