Understanding Chinese government containment measures and their societal impacts

我们迫切需要了解中国政府遏制新冠肺炎的措施。中国的感染率似乎在放缓，但在全球范围内正在加速。鉴于中国的措施显然取得了成功，其他国家可能会考虑采用这些措施。然而，我们并不完全理解中国的措施--这些措施远远超出了健康和临床管理的范畴--或者它们的效果。坊间证据表明，一些措施对控制病毒造成了重大的新问题(例如，关闭疫情中心的交通工具阻碍了医疗用品的流入)，也给中国社会成员带来了重大问题(例如，隔离感染者，有时会让家属失去照顾者)。该项目将使用纪录片政策和媒体分析，并在中国的四个地方进行实地考察，以了解中国政府采取的各种措施；这些措施如何向民众传达；它们对城市和农村的社会影响(以及它们在遏制病毒方面的作用)；公众对这些措施的反应；以及公众对政策变化的反应。随着疫情在中国的演变，我们将定期准备简短的报告和在线或面对面的简报，跟踪政策，讨论其效果和引发的伦理问题的证据，为国际政策制定者创造宝贵的资源。

We urgently need to understand Chinese government measures to contain COVID-19. Rates of infection seem to be slowing in China, but they are accelerating worldwide. Given the apparent success of Chinese measures, other countries may consider adopting them. Yet we do not fully understand China’s measures — which extend well beyond health and clinical management — or their effects. Anecdotal evidence indicates that some measures created significant new problems, both for containing the virus (e.g. closing transport from the outbreak centre hampered the inward flow of medical supplies) and for members of Chinese society (e.g. quarantining those infected sometimes left dependents without carers). This project will use documentary policy and media analysis and fieldwork in four localities in China, to understand: the full range of measures taken by the Chinese government; how they were communicated to the population; their urban and rural societal effects (as well as their role in containing the virus); how the public responded to the measures; and whether public responses fed back to change policies. As the epidemic evolves in China we will regularly prepare short reports and online or in-person briefings that track policies and discuss evidence of their effects and arising ethical issues to create valuable resources for policy makers internationally.