Rural China Copes with Covid-19 - Scott Rozelle

About this episode

Dr. Scott Rozelle discusses the impact of Covid-19 on rural China during a webinar.

Since the novel coronavirus outbreak in the megacity of Wuhan in December 2019, lockdowns were also implemented across China’s vast countryside, home to more than 700 million people. Dr. Scott Rozelle, senior fellow at Stanford University FSI and co-director of the Rural Education Action Program, presents his latest study to assess the effects of local and nationwide disease control measures on the economy, social life and health of China’s rural population. This was recorded from a May 6th webinar, to view the full presentation, visit china.ucsd.edu Webinar moderator: Victor Shih, UC San Diego Editor/Host: Samuel Tsoi, UC San Diego Music: Dave Liang/Shanghai Restoration Project

People in this episode

Guest: Scott Rozelle

Topics covered

• Covid-19
• Rural China
• Economy
• Social Life
• Health

Keywords

• coronavirus
• lockdowns
• rural population
• disease control measures

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Rural Education Action Program

Places: China, Wuhan

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