essay on corona pandemic in Chinese language
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The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis of our time and the greatest challenge we have faced since World War Two. Since its emergence in Asia late last year, the virus has spread to every continent except Antarctica.
We have now reached the tragic milestone of one million deaths, and the human family is suffering under an almost intolerable burden of loss.
But the pandemic is much more than a health crisis, it's also an unprecedent socio-economic crisis. Stressing every one of the countries it touches, it has the potential to create devastating social, economic and political effects that will leave deep and longstanding scars. UNDP is the technical lead in the UN’s socio-economic recovery, alongside the health response, led by WHO, and the Global Humanitarian Response Plan, and working under the leadership of the UN Resident Coordinators.
Every day, people are losing jobs and income, with no way of knowing when normality will return. Small island nations, heavily dependent on tourism, have empty hotels and deserted beaches. The International Labour Organization estimates that 400 million jobs could be lost.
The World Bank projects a US$110 billion decline in remittances this year, which could mean 800 million people will not be able to meet their basic needs.
Every country needs to act immediately to prepare, respond, and recover. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has launched a US$2 billion global humanitarian response plan in the most vulnerable. Developing countries could lose at least US$220 billion in income, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has called for US$2.5 trillion to support them.
Drawing on our experience with other outbreaks such as Ebola, HIV, SARS, TB and malaria, as well as our long history of working with the private and public sector, UNDP will help countries to urgently and effectively respond to COVID-19 as part of its mission to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and build resilience to crises and shocks.
The next phase of UNDP’s COVID-19 crisis response is designed to help decision-makers look beyond recovery, towards 2030, making choices and managing complexity and uncertainty in four main areas: governance, social protection, green economy, and digital disruption. It encompasses our role in technically leading the UN’s socio-economic response.
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Source: THE
Hong Kong commuters stayed glued to online news about the epidemic
Chinese professors across the globe are becoming increasingly vocal about the handling of the coronavirus outbreak, even as the space for free speech shrinks in mainland China.
Some Western-based Chinese academics have posted essays written by their mainland counterparts that might otherwise be blocked. China Digital Times, a bilingual website run by Xiao Qiang, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, posted an explosively critical essay by Xu Zhangrun, a Tsinghua University law professor.
The title, “Angry people are no longer afraid”, refers to larger public discontent, but it may also refer to Professor Xu himself, as he continues to publish despite a previous suspension from Tsinghua for an essay criticising the elimination of Chinese presidential term limits.
Xu Zhiyong (no relation to Xu Zhangrun), who was a law lecturer at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications before his arrest for activism several years ago, has also released a new essay about the epidemic. Writing on social media, he said that China’s leadership was incapable of dealing with large-scale crises. According to the South China Morning Post, Dr Xu was “in hiding from the police”.
The Chinese government issued new guidelines on social media discussions not long after the professors’ posts. The 6 February death of Li Wenliang, one of the disease’s early whistleblowers, also prompted online criticism and subsequent censorship.
Two University of Hong Kong medical professors recently took advantage of the city’s relatively higher level of academic freedom to voice their opinions on popular radio shows.