Zhifeng He, Yuanlin Xiang, Congpeng Qi, Xiaohe Liu, Sisi Li
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Abstract
ABSTRACT COVID-19 provides a window of opportunity for observing community resilience initiatives. Based on the Community Resilience Initiative Framework, we adopt a qualitative approach to investigate a Chinese urban community, focusing on community initiatives with regard to fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The findings highlight several primary factors, including the agency of community actors, the grid management system, and the utilisation of WeChat groups.The collective experience of fighting against COVID-19 has boosted community interaction, understanding and trust, and has further promoted the capacity of problem solving in the community, and thus established community self-organisation. These findings have important implications for community development in the post-epidemic era.