What is a petition? Who has the right to petition?

Letters and visits refer to individuals or groups of citizens contacting the institutions or personnel responsible for letters and visits in various forms, such as letters, emails, visits, telephone calls, faxes and short messages.

In order to reflect the situation, express opinions and request to solve problems, relevant petition agencies or personnel take certain measures to deal with them. Citizens, legal persons or other organizations have the right to petition.

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Characteristics of letters and visits

In the petitioner's view, the central government in Beijing is the least suspected of "protecting officials from each other". Therefore, the ultimate goal of petitioning is often to "do everything possible to enter Beijing."

According to the statistics of the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, in 2003, the number of letters and visits received by the State Bureau for Letters and Calls increased by 14%, only by 0. 1% at the provincial level, by 0.3% at the prefecture level and by 2.4% at the county level. In addition, the number of people's letters and visits accepted by the central and state organs increased by 46%, and the departments directly under the provinces, prefectures and counties increased slightly, some of which were negative.

This has also created a high-incidence area centered on Beijing. Several provinces around Beijing have become major provinces for petitioning without exception. A judge in a certain place in Shandong told me that there are several local villages close to the railway, so it is convenient for people to go to Beijing. They are called "villages directly under the State Council". Whenever something happens, the villagers go to Beijing by train to petition, which makes the local government a headache.