Beijing Review

Need for Civilization Transformation

The author is executive dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China

If we regard the January 23 lockdown of Wuhan, the city in central China with a population of over 11 million where the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was first reported, as the start of China’s combat against the epidemic, it took three weeks for the infection to peak. Then in early March, the number of daily new cases dropped to under 100. Today, most industrial production has been back on

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