A Case Study on China’s Policies of Promoting Work Resumption During the COVID-19 Pandemic — Perspective of Policy Resilience

During the COVID-19 pandemic, China has achieved high recovery efficiency. One of the most important reasons behind this is the effective policies of promoting work resumption. Why can such policies maintain steady performance despite the high level of environmental uncertainties? This question can be answered from the perspective of policy resilience. This study employed a policy evaluation model for analyzing quantitative data of 342 policies of promoting work resumption. We evaluate the policies through the Policy Modeling Consistency (PMC-index) model and text mining methods. The results show that: first, the contents and elements of all policies have consistent characteristics, including the combination of multiple policy tools, the combination of support for work resumption and pandemic control, the incentives to support effective policy implementation, and the reasonable match between macro and micro policies as well as short-term and long-term policies. Second, among the nine policies that are randomly selected from the sample, one is rated excellent and the other eight are good, indicating that China’s policies of promoting work resumption have good resilience.