By Li Jianwei &Qian Cheng, Research Institute of Public Administration and Human Resources, DRC

Research Report, No.282, 2020 (Total 6026) 2020-11-30

Abstract: Since July 2020, the pandemic is spreading rapidly. In many countries, the number of new confirmed cases in a single day has reached a new high beyond control. It is expected that the recurrence of the pandemic abroad will prevail until March 2021, and the number of infected people will be doubled, which will exert a far greater negative impact on the economy and society of relevant countries than the first round of the pandemic. Meanwhile, due to the inadequate pandemic prevention and control measures and different social customs, there may be periodic recurrence of the pandemic abroad in the future. As China’s task of preventing imported pandemic cases will become more arduous, we need to make permanent precautions to respond to repeated shocks from foreign countries. With regard to dealing with imported pandemic cases effectively, emphasis need to be laid on prevention and control of both people’s flow and cold chain logistics. We need to speed up vaccine development, promote the vaccine production and application as soon as possible, make overall plans and coordinate capacity development of prevention materials. Besides, we need to advance international cooperation, increase relevant foreign aid and consolidate the domestic economic recovery momentum. Based on the development paradigm with domestic circulation as the mainstay and domestic and international circulations reinforcing each other, we could hopefully weaken the negative impact of foreign recurrences on China's economic and social development to the greatest extent.

Keywords: foreign pandemic spreading, development trend, impact, countermeasures