中国现代化进程中所出现的一系列新问题、新矛盾正破坏或威胁着政治稳定。邓小平从改革发展和社会主义现代化建设需要政治稳定的高度,提出要有社会危机意识,增强社会危机管理能力。认为如果现代政府不能拥有较高的危机管理能力,不能把危机控制在政府和社会所能承受的范围之内,那么就会出现政治不稳定的现象,政府的政治合法性必将受到质疑。因此,对社会危机管理问题要有足够的认识,对社会危机要进行科学的分析,要建立和完善社会危机管理的应急体制机制,要不断提高领导干部搞好社会危机管理的能力。江泽民、胡锦涛发展了邓小平的这一思想。 A series of new problems and new contradictions emerged in the process of China’s modernization are undermining or threatening political stability. From the height of reform and development and socialist modernization, Deng Xiaoping proposed that we should have a sense of social crisis and enhance our social crisis management capabilities. He believes that if the modern government can not have a higher ability to manage the crisis and can not control the crisis within the limits of the government and society, then there will be political instability, and the political legitimacy of the government will surely be questioned. Therefore, we should have enough understanding of social crisis management, conduct a scientific analysis of the social crisis, establish and improve the emergency institutional mechanisms for social crisis management, and continuously improve the ability of leading cadres to do well in social crisis management. Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao developed Deng Xiaoping’s thinking.