目前形势下如何提振中国经济

REVITALIZE CHINA’S ECONOMY:WINNING ANOTHER BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19 EPIDEMIC

2020年春季将至之时这场突如其来的新冠肺炎疫情,给数万名受感染者的中国家庭带来深重的痛苦,亦使得无数人放弃假日团聚计划,转而投入了一场史无前例的疫情阻击战,正常的经济和社会秩序受到严重干扰。在全国上下的共同努力下,自2月3日以来,包括湖北省在内的全国各地新增确诊病例数量呈持续下降势头,并逐步趋于平稳。人们在“抗疫”的同时,亦开始关注如何做好“疫后”生产秩序的恢复。那么,该突发性公共卫生事件对本已承压的中国和世界经济而言到底会有多大影响,应如何加强应对,本文对此加以初步分析。

The novel coronavirus outbreak in the lead-up to the 2020 Chinese Spring Festival has inflicted great pain on tens of thousands of patients and their families,involving countless courageous Chinese citizens--who otherwise would have spent the holiday with their families and friends--in an unprecedented anti-virus war.Although normal economic activity and social order have been disrupted,the good news is that the growth of new confi rmed cases has been on a steady decline since February 3 across the country.Seeing optimistic signs,people now have begun to contemplate how to restore production to normal levels in the aftermath of the epidemic.This article refl ects on the economic impacts of this public health emergency on China and the world and puts forward some policy recommendations on how to contain the fallout.