Preventing and controlling epidemic situations should give full play to the role of digital and virtual worlds

Securities Times reporter: The epidemic has brought a great impact on normal economic activities and disturbed the short-term economic order. There are currently some policies to deal with special situations, but the effects need to be further evaluated. What do you think can be done from the economic level to deal with the impact of the epidemic?

Chen Daofu: To deal with the impact of the epidemic from an economic perspective, we can focus on "treating chaos", "righting up" and "filling inadequacy". "Trouble chasing" refers to the rapid elimination of technical and temporary confusion caused by epidemic response and prevention . The epidemic response and prevention and control adopted a large number of methods consistent with the science of epidemic prevention and control, but disrupted the rules of normal economic activities. The need for various departments to eliminate external intervention as soon as possible may lead to confusion at the rule, technology and market levels.

"Rightening" refers to "turning" the economy so that the economy has basic "righteousness" sources and that enterprises have the conditions for self-growth. This is the general trend that small, medium and micro enterprises can use, and it is the greatest help. "Make up for shortfalls" is to help enterprises and some regions to overcome difficulties, reduce losses, increase revenue, and improve the survival rate of enterprises. The key to the modern economy is "cooperation" and "flow", which can be either contact, cooperation, and flow in the real world, or contact, cooperation, and flow in the virtual world. The prevention and control of epidemic situation needs to reduce the contact and flow of the real world as much as possible, but not prevent the contact, cooperation and flow of the virtual world. An important feature of the modern information society is that a large number of economic activities are carried out in the digital and virtual worlds, minimizing actions in the real physical world. In the special period of epidemic prevention and control, we should focus on working with micro-subjects to give full play to the role of digital and virtual worlds, especially in cooperation with China's existing technology companies to find more effective economic response strategies and to cope with the difficulties.