Chinanews.com, Beijing, December 3rd (Wei Xianghui) "There is no absolute sense of 'clearing' or 'releasing', the optimal solution is actually 'orderly' (take measures to seal or release)." Recently , sociologist Lu Dewen said in an exclusive interview with Chinanews.com.

  Lu Dewen is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Sociology of Wuhan University, and a researcher at the China Rural Governance Research Center of Wuhan University.

In the past three years, he has conducted a lot of research on grassroots epidemic prevention work.

  Looking back on the prevention and control of the new crown epidemic in the past three years, China's epidemic prevention policy has been continuously optimized and adjusted.

Since the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council announced 20 measures to further optimize the prevention and control of the epidemic, how to reduce the impact on the normal production and life of the people is not only a policy The formulation also puts forward a test to the implementation level.

The picture shows the orderly restoration of production and living order in Nan'an District of Chongqing, and the city's "fireworks" are gradually returning.

Chen Chaoshe

  In response to the layer-by-layer increase in behavior in individual places, relevant experts from the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council stated that the main problems reported by the masses include three aspects: First, the prevention and control measures adopted by some places are not accurate, which has a relatively large impact on the production and life of the masses. , and inconsistent with national policies; second, some grassroots staff have single working methods, blunt attitudes, lack of patience, and poor communication with the masses; third, the release of epidemic-related information in a few places is not timely and sufficient.

  Regarding the reasons for these phenomena, Lu Dewen believes that this is related to the real difficulties faced by grassroots work.

"From the perspective of our research at the grassroots level, subjectively, grassroots work does not have the intention of 'overweighting'." He mentioned that the 20 measures put forward higher requirements for grassroots epidemic prevention and control, but the resources provided Support is still limited.

  Lu Dewen said that on the one hand, in the absence of sufficient resources to carry out detailed flow investigation and environmental assessment, the grassroots can only quickly control the spread of the epidemic by taking some rigid prevention and control measures.

On the other hand, in many cases, the grassroots engage in "one size fits all" and "layer by layer", not considering the effect of epidemic prevention, but to prove compliance to superiors.

  However, Lu Dewen also reminded that with the changes in the characteristics of the spread of the virus and the extension of the lockdown period, the people have accumulated more and more negative emotions, and their acceptance of rigid policies has become lower and lower.

In this regard, he suggested that we should re-evaluate how to treat the grassroots epidemic prevention work from top to bottom:

  One is to reduce the burden on the grassroots.

He pointed out that in many places, big data not only failed to empower the grassroots, but increased the burden on the grassroots.

For example, the local community mainly relies on the community to conduct local surveys, while most cities adhere to the practice of "making a call first if there is any date", and make repeated calls to all outsiders.

  The second is to reduce the responsibility of the grassroots.

When an epidemic occurs in one place, the grassroots will often be held accountable, so it is unreasonable to put pressure on the grassroots.

  The third is to create conditions for the grassroots.

So far, the health codes across the country have not been unified, which has also caused a lot of trouble for the masses and grassroots work.

The picture shows the general and emergency personnel of various medical institutions at all levels in Guangzhou passing through with the green code of the health code. Photo by Chen Jimin

  "'Clearing' is just one goal, but the working method is still 'dynamic', that is, with the change of the epidemic prevention and control situation, we must choose different methods." Lu Dewen said that the difference in the effect of dynamic zeroing in the past three years depends on urban and rural areas, There are many objective conditions such as regions and groups of people. Therefore, in terms of policy science, it is necessary to avoid large fluctuations in prevention and control policies, so as to avoid making the grassroots at a loss.

  How to truly achieve "orderly" epidemic prevention and control?

Lu Dewen said that from a policy perspective, the premise of "orderly" is to prepare the grassroots and allow the society to have sufficient and definite expectations.

This includes clarifying what material and human resources are needed at the grassroots level; in terms of management measures, it is necessary to clarify whether there should be differences in densely populated places such as campuses and factories, as well as personnel in key industries and other social personnel.

More importantly, there must be sufficient social education to provide the public with scientific and reasonable behavioral guidelines.

  "Dynamic clearing is not 'absolute clearing', but in a controllable situation. At the beginning, everyone thought that there were a few cases of dynamic clearing. Now there may be hundreds of cases in a city that are also 'dynamic', maybe what There are 10,000 cases every day, and everyone thinks it is "dynamic". The key is the degree of social adaptability, and the choice of policy is related to the degree of social acceptance." Lu Dewen said.

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