Mindset Shift

When the novel coronavirus epidemic was at its peak in China, Dou Huining, a 30-year-old civil servant in Tianjin, a port city in north China, supervised epidemic control measures in local vegetable markets, kept vigil at the entrance of residential building blocks and picked up people returning from overseas at the airport to take them to designated hotels for quarantine. “I felt proud to contribute when we were in a period of emergency,” she told Beijing Review.

Dou also said her love for the nation strengthened for the government put people’s lives over everything else and spared no effort to save patients during the epidemic prevention and control work.

The epidemic, the biggest public health crisis since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, has one positive fallout. It has reshaped the