Media and Public Trust in Chinese Basic-Level Governments: Communication and Reliance

摘要

According to the phenomena of interaction between the citizens and governments, we can see that the public trust of Chinese basic-level governments has not improved with the function transformation, but constantly decreases. At the reality of the deficiency of public trust, the Chinese basic-level governments lost the communication ability of regaining the understanding and trust of the public and the related governance capacity. This is one of the main difficulties which the Chinese basic-level governments are facing. Under this condition, those higher government institutions who have high public trust and strong communication ability and media should undertake the responsibility of remodeling the Chinese basic-level governments' public trust.