Crisis governance, Chinese style: distinctive features of China’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemic in Wuhan, China has remained under the international spotlight. Despite hostile sentiments toward the country that are still prevalent in many parts of the world, it is clear that China has managed to contain this unprecedented public health crisis reasonably swiftly since the lockdown of Wuhan. What accounts for this "success"? What are the experience and lessons that can be learnt by the international community and policy practitioners? This study seeks to reveal China's highly distinctive style of crisis governance behind its pandemic containment outcome since February 2020. We analyze how the Chinese government was able to mobilize the entire state machinery and all possible resources in this battle. Focus is given to the distinctive features at institutional, strategic, and operational levels, illustrating the country's style of crisis governance while also drawing necessary caveats.

The Psychological Impact and Associated Factors of COVID-19 on the General Public in Hunan, China

“…29 The 2003 SARS outbreak has taught valuable lessons to the Chinese people. 60 The massive awareness campaigns such as implementing public health policies, providing public health education, and disseminating information to the public, 61 might improve public knowledge regarding COVID-19. Disease awareness in our study (76.2%) was lower than that reported by a contemporaneous study in Hubei Province, China (90%) 62 and another one from Vietnam (92.2%).…”

The social crisis aftermath: tourist well-being during the COVID-19 outbreak

“…Not only do these measures help curtail the viral outbreak, they are also expected to reduce the likelihood of unfavorable host-tourist encounters that are considered as stigmatization and discrimination . The plans could be prepared with government-designated facilities and comprehensive measures of testing, quarantine, and follow-up medical support, borrowed from effective practices buttressed by countries such as China and South Korea (He, Shi, et al, 2020;. Government authorities should also pay attention to the quality of service in quarantine hotels, as it renders as a buffer to anxiety for tourists from the epidemic (Wong & Yang, 2020).…”

“…Government authorities should also pay attention to the quality of service in quarantine hotels, as it renders as a buffer to anxiety for tourists from the epidemic (Wong & Yang, 2020). In addition, it is imperative to have government-initiated media publicity to foster understanding and support during the pandemic (He, Shi, et al, 2020).…”

Globalism or Nationalism? The Paradox of Chinese Official Discourse in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak

“…On the one hand, it will shed light on China's attitude towards multilateral institution in global health governance and global governance more widely and provide insight into China's attempts to change global COVID-19 narrative [57]. On the other hand, to what extent the Chinese experience of controlling the epidemic may be applied to other countries is debatable, but promoting this line of global policy learning is invaluable in global health governance [28].…”