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Chinese Economists and Formation of Post-Pandemic Development Strategy

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Rubric: China: Domestic and Foreign Policies
DOI: 10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-4-14-25
Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (IDV RAN), 32, Nakhimovskii Prosp., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation.
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Received 13.12.2021.

Abstract. The article examines the contribution of Chinese economists to adjustment of reforms strategy under the influence of “post-epidemic consensus”. In early 2020, economists supported official policy of strict lockdowns and mobilization approach in fighting coronavirus, they proposed measures to restore economic activity. After the control over the epidemic was established, scholars focused on analyzing the global impact of the coronavirus crisis and on adjusting China’s development strategy to changed external conditions. Chinese leader Xi Jinping set the guidelines while the economists provided in-depth analysis of particular problems of national development. To understand the Chinese economic discourse, it is important to take into account not only scholarly publications but also the commentaries of Chinese economists on important policy decisions. These commentaries, though little-known outside China, provide scholars an opportunity to communicate their key ideas to the society. The article analyzes both forms of participation of Chinese economists in the discussion on development strategies after the pandemic. The problems of compatibility of anti-crisis measures with long-term development plans have acquired great importance along with searches for responses to de-globalization of the world economy. Scholars paid attention to the new topic of comparative study of economic aspects of suppressing the epidemic in China and other countries with focus on institutional and cultural factors. The preference of domestic economic circulation motivated scholars to assess possible negative impacts of loosened ties with outside world upon the policy of innovation-driven development. The priorities of national economic policy kept the commitment to supply-side structural reform as the “main line” while simultaneously implementing epidemic prevention and supporting social and economic development. Reform guidelines that were updated in 2020– 2021 taking into account the lessons of the fight against the epidemic in China and in the world will keep influence in the years to come.

Keywords: China, coronavirus, economic science, government policy, economic recovery, reforms, de-globalization, internal circulation


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Borokh O. Chinese Economists and Formation of Post-Pandemic Development Strategy. World Eñonomy and International Relations, 2022, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 14-25. https://doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2022-66-4-14-25

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