China News Service, May 6th. According to a report by the Washington Post on the 5th, Cary Wu, a professor of sociology at York University in Canada, published an article on the newspaper’s website that his research found that “the Chinese government is The handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has actually strengthened its legitimacy."

Statistics show that Chinese citizens’ trust in the national government has increased to 98%.

The picture shows a screenshot of the US "Washington Post" report.

　　According to reports, in late April 2020, shortly after the “restart” of Wuhan City, China, Professor Wu conducted a large-scale online investigation.

The team worked with 17 Chinese scholars and recruited 600 students from 53 universities across the country to conduct one-to-one online interviews to ensure that the samples come from various regions, while the survey ensures that the interviewees remain anonymous.

In the end, 19,816 Chinese citizens from 31 provincial administrative regions were interviewed.

　　It is worth noting that according to the World Values ​​Survey in 2018, 95% of Chinese people said that they trust the central government very much.

　　According to the survey data of Professor Wu's team this time, Chinese citizens' trust in the central government has increased to 98%.

Compared with 2018, the Chinese people's trust in the local government has increased-91% said they trust or fully trust the local township-level government.

The trust of county-level governments has risen to 93%, municipal governments have reached 94%, and provincial governments have reached 95%.

　　The report said, "These figures show that the Chinese people have increasingly trusted governments at all levels."

　　The survey conducted by Professor Wu's team also asked the interviewees how their trust in the government has changed since the outbreak.

Nearly half (49%) of the interviewees said that since the epidemic, they have more trust in the central government; 48% of the interviewees said that their trust level has remained unchanged before and after the epidemic.

　　And what does it mean for the people to trust the government so much?

　　According to the survey data of Professor Wu's team, during the epidemic, 1% of Chinese citizens held a negative and angry attitude towards the Chinese government; 55% of the people held diffuse trust, and 44% held specific trust.

　　The report pointed out that these findings cannot be simply attributed to "false statements out of political fear."

The findings are also consistent with the results repeatedly shown by other investigators.

The survey and research also show that “the Chinese people have indeed expressed their true attitude towards the government without fear.”