The Mode Change of Social Mobilisation for Natural Disaster Emergency Response in China

Social mobilization is one of the important means to cope with natural disaster crises in China, and scientific cognition of the changes and evolutionary logic of the natural disaster social mobilization mode is an important proposition to further promote the modernization of national governance and the construction of the framework of big security and big emergency response. Since the founding of New China, the social mobilization model for natural disaster response has gone through three major historical stages: relying on the government to coordinate and order, exploring diversified social participation, and cooperating with multiple subjects in governance. If we look at the natural disaster emergency social mobilization model with historical institutionalism, we will find that it has achieved a three-stage transformation with the reform and opening up and the promotion of national governance modernization since the 18th National Congress as the key nodes, with the social governance model and the power distribution pattern as the path-dependent elements, and with the intrinsic requirements of China's modernization of public crisis governance as the driving mechanism throughout. Looking ahead, the social mobilization model for natural disaster emergency response should realize the coordination and linkage of two-way mobilization of the government and society through the organic unity of consensus, norms and integration of interests, so as to create a “community” model of social mobilization for natural disaster emergency response.