This paper argues that, regardless of the advantages in China’s political system, the efficiency and success of China’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic should be attributed to three factors. First, the Chinese leader, the CPC and the Chinese governments at all levels have been attaching great importance to the pandemic and playing a rather crucial and positive role in fighting the pandemic, thus providing China with a strong political and institutional guarantee for imposing targeted measures and effectively preventing the further spread of the pandemic. Second, the enterprises, communities, medical workers, media and ordinary people in China all contribute to the success of China’s fighting against the pandemic in different aspects, thus leading to a rather positive state-market-society interactions in combating the pandemic. Third, China’s equal exchanges, close cooperation and mutual assistance with many other countries and the WHO in combating COVID-19 not only helped China and the international community achieve better performances in fighting the pandemic, but also made it easier for more countries to perceive China’s sense of responsibility and the trustworthiness of China’s capabilities and intentions, and eased international pressure to China in the context of the deterioration of China-US relations during the pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese government, State-market-society interactions, Xi Jinping, international cooperation, the CPC Central Committee
