面对改革的大潮,人民调解工作要不要改革,烟台市广大的调解组织形成了共识。他们认为,人民调解工作要有地位就要有作为,有作为就要顺应改革的新形势,加大人民调解工作深化改革的力度,为保障社会的稳定和经济的发展不断作出新的贡献。他们体会到,在新的形势下,人民调解工作决不能停留在满足于调解发生的纠纷,必须树立“大调解”的意识,拓宽“全方位”调防新路。他们的作法是紧紧与当地开展的家庭建设和村民代表议事会制度的建设结合起来,开拓出人民调解工作与基层民主政治建设相结合的新路子。民调工作与家庭建设的结合。牟平县在90年代初,开展了以家庭为单位,以“经济、法制、道德、文化”为主要内容的家庭建设活动。家庭经济建设主要是大力 In the face of the tide of reform, whether people’s mediation should be reformed or not, the vast majority of mediation organizations in Yantai have formed a consensus. They hold that people’s mediation should have its own place in work and that as long as they work, they must conform to the new situation of reform, intensify people’s mediation efforts and deepen the reform so as to continuously make new contributions to safeguarding social stability and economic development. They realized that in the new situation, the people’s mediation should never stop at settling disputes over mediation. They must establish a sense of “major mediation” and broaden the new road of “all-round” adjustment. Their practice is to closely integrate with the family construction and the system of villagers’ representative councils in the locality to open up a new path of combining the people’s mediation work with the building of grassroots democratic politics. Combination of poll work and family building. In the early 1990s, Muping County started family-building activities with family as the unit and “economic, legal system, morality and culture” as the main contents. Family economic construction is mainly vigorous