China’s Dynamic Zero-COVID Policy Benefits the World
China’s dynamic zeroCOVID approach has not only quickly cut viral transmission in the shortest time possible but also brought tangible benefits to the whole world..
As the Omicron variant has posed severe challenges to the faltering global economic recovery amid surging infections, China’s dynamic zeroCOVID approach has not only quickly cut viral transmission in the shortest time possible but also brought tangible benefits to the whole world.
The country’s economy got off to a steady start in 2022 in the face of global challenges and a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, with its gross domestic product (GDP) growing 4.8 per cent year on year to 27.02 trillion yuan (about 4 trillion U.S. dollars) in the first three months, quickening from a 4 per cent increase in the fourth quarter last year.
China’s strong economic performance has been a boon for global economic stability and growth, said Cavince Adhere, a Kenyabased international relations scholar.
Global-economy stabiliser
Progress has been made in China’s latest battle with COVID-19. After weeks of arduous control and prevention efforts, community transmission has been cut in the cities of Jilin and Changchun in Jilin Province, where life is returning to normal and the resumption of production is accelerating. The number of new infections in Shanghai is also going down.
As the world’s second largest economy, China has played a key role in promoting the recovery of the global economy and stabilising the industrial and supply chains.
“Countries that followed the zeroCOVID playbook have done better on every measure, from death rates to economic growth,” said British science writer Michael Marshall on the New Scientist in late March.
If more nations had implemented this approach, humanity would be in a better place.”
China has seen an accelerated pace of resumption of work and production in key areas and industries.
In Shanghai, 86.8 per cent of enterprises of the 666 companies included in the first batch of the “white list” had resumed work by April 28.