{"title":"Liming Wang Comment on How China Managed the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"L. Wang","doi":"10.1162/asep_a_00815","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Liming Wang, University College Dublin: The paper presents a comprehensive overview of China’s experience of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Following a chronological review of the major measures the Chinese government took to prevent the spread of the epidemic, as well as to boost the country’s economic recovery, the author concludes that China has responded in a timely and effective manner to halt the spread of the pandemic and to accelerate economic recovery afterwards. According to the available evidence and data, mainly from official sources, the author believes that China’s economy is on the road to recovery due to both monetary and fiscal policies, adopted to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, with promising outcomes already indicated.","PeriodicalId":52020,"journal":{"name":"Asian Economic Papers","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Asian Economic Papers","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00815","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Liming Wang, University College Dublin: The paper presents a comprehensive overview of China’s experience of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Following a chronological review of the major measures the Chinese government took to prevent the spread of the epidemic, as well as to boost the country’s economic recovery, the author concludes that China has responded in a timely and effective manner to halt the spread of the pandemic and to accelerate economic recovery afterwards. According to the available evidence and data, mainly from official sources, the author believes that China’s economy is on the road to recovery due to both monetary and fiscal policies, adopted to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, with promising outcomes already indicated.
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