Construction of Law-based Government in the Context of Counteraction to COVID-19

• Author: Wendao Tang and Xuelu Qiu
• Position: Student, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, China)/Ph.D. Candidate, Lecturer, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, China)
• Pages: 74-84

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 2020

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Construction of Law-based Government

in the Context of Counteraction to COVID-19

Wendao Tang1

Student, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, China)

E-mail: 2059180201@qq.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1234-5332

Xuelu Qiu2

Ph.D. Candidate, Lecturer, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology

(Maoming, China)

E-mail: 369529836@qq.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0411-3120

Tang, Wendao, and Xuelu Qiu (2020) Construction of Law-based Government in the Context

of Counteraction to COVID-19. Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 6, 74-84. https://doi.

org/10.29202/up/6/8

With the deepened construction of law-based government in China, China-specic socialist legal

systems have been constantly improved. Among these systems, the legal system on public health security

is an important part of the construction. In the context of preventing and controlling COVID-19, Chinese

emergency response measures for public health security have played crucial roles. They created the

most important legal framework for China to eectively prevent and control COVID-19, protect the life

and health of its citizens, and guarantee the resumption of work and production. Nevertheless, the ght

against coronavirus disease has caused many problems, including the need to legally give the government

more specic powers in the event of serious public health emergencies, how to get the government to

get legal powers and to carry out preventive work promptly, how the Government should better protect

fundamental rights citizens in critical situations to prevent and control epidemics, and how to ensure that

the local government operates in accordance with the law in preventing and controlling COVID-19. This

article analyzes the legal standardization of legal issues that arise in the context of the prevention and

control of COVID-19 by the Chinese government in terms of building a legal government Discuss ways

to improve the construction of a legal government in the country context of counteraction COVID-19.

Keywords: law-based government, counteraction to COVID-19, public health security, government

power

Received: February 21, 2020; accepted: March 24, 2020

© Tang, Wendao, 2020

© Qiu, Xuelu, 2020