How to Improve Scientific Prevention and Control Mechanism of Communities under Public Crisis — Take China's Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak As an Example

Abstract

How to respond to sudden public crises is an important element of community governance. The paper starts from the characteristics of public crises, takes China’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak as an example, explains the importance of improving community’s scientific prevention and control mechanism in both national governance and social stability under public crises, analyzes the problems of community’s prevention and control mechanism at this stage, and distills four countermeasures for improving community’s scientific prevention and control mechanism, namely, building a collaborative mechanism of community’s joint prevention and control of multiple subjects, improving prevention and control system supported by big data, efficient information management mechanism, and emergency security mechanism. The community’s scientific prevention and control mechanism built from four aspects transforms the institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the effectiveness of governance in response to public crises, which is an important way to realize the modernization of community governance.