China’s Anti-epidemic Experience and Its World Significance: An Introduction to China’s Fight against the COVID-19 Epidemic: Its Contribution and Implications to the World in the Eyes of Foreigners

ABSTRACT

This article briefly introduces to international readers China’s achievements in combating the COVID-19 epidemic, along with the global context surrounding this fight, and provides the background for a collection of essays and interviews compiled with the aim to present an accurate picture of China and the world under the conditions of the pandemic in the book China’s Fight against the COVID-19 Epidemic: Its Contribution and Implications to the World in the Eyes of Foreigners [in Chinese, edited by Hui Jiang, Contemporary China Publishing House, 2020, 461 pp., ¥86 (paperback), ISBN978-7-5154-1043-2].

KEYWORDS:

• COVID-19
• China
• socialism with Chinese characteristics

Acknowledgements

This article is translated from Chinese by Zixu Liu at the Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on Contributor

Hui Jiang is the President of both the Institute of Contemporary China Studies and the Academy of Marxism at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research focuses on Marxist theory, scientific socialism, the international communist movement and contemporary world socialism. His publications include Reform of the Communist Parties in the European Developed Countries (in Chinese), A Study of the Contemporary Western Working Class (in Chinese), Socialist Thought in the Western World (in Chinese), New Characteristics of World Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (in Chinese), Class Structure and the “Third Way” (in Chinese), and The Transformation of European Social Democracy (in Chinese).