Coronavirus response boosts public confidence, national unity in China

More than 60 percent of respondents to the latest survey conducted by the Global Times believe that China’s economy will recover to its pre-epidemic status within a year, and the country’s all-out efforts to fight the coronavirus epidemic have lifted public confidence and strengthened national solidarity, according to the survey results. 

The survey showed that China’s military and economic achievements in the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period are the two most recognized developments, which observers consider as an indirect result of the US’ reckless efforts to curb the rise of China. 

About 63.4 percent of survey participants believe that China’s economy will recover to its pre-epidemic status within one year, among which 21.3 percent said the economy may recover in just six months, according to the survey the Global Times Research Center conducted from September 18 to 21 of 2,052 respondents. The respondents were from 10 first- and second-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, capital of South China’s Guangdong Province and Wuhan in Central China’s Hubei Province and Kunming in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province. 

About 24.2 percent of the respondents believe it would take one to three years for China to recover to pre-epidemic levels, and 6.1 percent think it would take more than three years.

Source: Global Times