Research On The Resilience Of Rural Communities Under The Normalization Of The New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic

The New Crown Pneumonia outbreak broke out at the end of 2019,and since then the epidemic prevention and control policy has been continuously adjusted,with China entering a phase of regular prevention and control of the New Crown Pneumonia epidemic in May 2020.Among these,grassroots communities play an important role in prevention and control.Rural communities have achieved good results with a rustic response,showing community resilience.To further improve the capacity of rural communities to cope with the risk of public health events,this study examines the issue of community resilience in the normalised phase of the epidemic.This study takes the prevention and control of the New Coronary Pneumonia(NCP)epidemic in N town of Beijing’s Pinggu district as an example.Based on field research,information was collected through questionnaires and interviews to sort out the overall situation of N town’s normalised response to the prevention and control of the NCP epidemic,and it was found that N town has vulnerabilities in the prevention and control of the NCP epidemic in terms of weak emergency awareness,shortage of health resources and poorly set up village governance system.This paper explores the operational logic of the resilience system of the rural community in N-town’s standing response to the epidemic in terms of four subsystems: social capital,basic community characteristics,community disaster management and community development capacity,combined with interview data.The study found that each subsystem plays an important role.The social capital subsystem is the cultural factor for community resilience,including four elements of community norms,relationship networks,trust and resident participation,which play a key role in community resilience;the community basic characteristics subsystem is the concentration of community hardware resources,the first line of defence in times of crisis,and the material basis for community resilience;the community disaster management subsystem is the core of community response to risk,and has a direct impact on The community disaster management sub-system is the core of the community’s response to risk and has a direct role in enhancing the community’s resilience;the community development capacity sub-system serves to assist the community to improve its resilience in the later stages of a crisis.Community resilience is a dynamic process and the four sub-systems are interlinked and interact with each other to form a community resilience system.Using the Community Resilience CART scale,we measured the overall level of community resilience in township N through five dimensions: connectedness and care,resources owned,potential for change,disaster management,and information and communication,as well as analysing the state of epidemic prevention and control practices in villages within the township.The results show that community resilience in N town has outstanding strengths in the dimensions of contact and care,and information and communication;deficiencies in the dimensions of economic resources and human resources;inadequate mechanisms and weak awareness of disaster prevention in the dimension of disaster management;and low quality of villagers’ participation and lack of professional institutional support in the dimension of potential for change.In response to the deficiencies in community resilience evaluation,this study proposes the following paths to improve the resilience of N-town communities: firstly,to improve the risk warning mechanism,establish a post-event iterative mechanism,form a multi-departmental joint mechanism,and improve the township’s long-term emergency mechanism;secondly,to optimise the village environment,promote the development of village industries,reserve village talents,and build village resilience resources;thirdly,to promote the participation of multiple subjects through the leadership of party building,cultivate village self-organisations,and stimulate village endogenous power.Third,through the Party building to promote the participation of multiple subjects,cultivate village self-organization,and stimulate the endogenous power of the village;fourth,to create a cultural atmosphere in the village,and gather village consensus.