Taking the Pandemic Prevention and Control as an Opportunity to Advance the Modernization of China’s System and Capacity for Governance
Abstract
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China(CPC) proposed that Chinese must uphold and improve the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and continuously advance the modernization of China's capacity and system for governance. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19, China’s pandemic prevention and control has achieved an overwhelming trend under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with President Xi Jinping at its core. Meanwhile, the party's remarkable advantages in leadership, people-centeredness and concentrated efforts to accomplish major tasks in the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics have been fully demonstrated. However, the pandemic prevention and control has revealed the problems that China has in the national emergency management capacity and system, the rule of law system, the local government’s governing capacity and the leadership level system. As such, taking the pandemic prevention and control as an opportunity to continuously sum up experience from it to further improve the public security system, promote the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and strengthen the innovation of theory and practice, so as to unremittingly develop the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics and advance the modernization of China's governance system and capacity to a new level.