중국의 코로나19 사태와 사회 체제의 신뢰 위기

Abstract

The COVID-19 epidemic, which began to spread from China's Wuhan, illustrates why social trust is important in times of crisis. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the problem of the lack of social capital of trust has been amplified in China in recent years through the COVID-19 epidemic that exploded in Wuhan, and how it intensifies the crisis of the social system. The unstable response of China's central and local governments in the event of a COVID-19 epidemic highlights the problems that are deepening in the Chinese political system since Xi Jinping took power. In addition, the process by which the Chinese community responds to the confusion caused by the COVID-19 epidemic shows how China's social system is changing. The Communist Party and the government of China considered improving the national image damaged by the COVID-19 epidemic as a priority, but what the Chinese people urgently need to overcome the life crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic is rebuilding the social system, including collapsed base administration and medical and welfare services, safely restarting suspended economic activities, and restoring damaged trust in the social system. Overall, it is an important issue for Chinese society to not only restore collapsed social governance to its original state but also actively reform the problems of social governance revealed by the COVID-19 epidemic. In the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, China has come to realize the need for social governance reform, and it has confirmed that the reform should start with the reform of the community system in the grass-root society.