Foued Larby ：The Patriotic Dragons ｜非洲研究院非洲留学生为中国抗疫点赞加油
The Patriotic Dragons
爱国主义在中国
A new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was recently detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China and is causing an outbreak of respiratory illness. This virus primarily affected China Mainland，and it is capable of spreading from person to person, the incubation period of the virus ranges from 2 to 14 days, symptoms include fever, coughing and breathing difficulties, and hospital treatment is needed.
最近，中国湖北省武汉市发现一种新型冠状病毒（2019- nCoV），病毒直接引发了呼吸道疾病疫情爆发，中国大陆地区受主要影响。该病毒存在人传人现象，潜伏期为2至14天，感染症状包括发热、咳嗽和呼吸困难，感染者需住院治疗。
This outbreak is an ongoing viral, as before in human history; we have already seen similar cases quite a few times.
In the year of 1720 there was The Great Plague of Marseille, which was the last of the significant European outbreaks of bubonic plague.The disease appeared in France killed approximately 100,000 people, 50,000 in the city of Marseille and during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.
By the year of 1820, exactly (1817–24), the first cholera pandemic appeared, began near the city of Calcutta (Kolkata – India) and spread throughout Southeast Asia to the Middle East, eastern Africa and the Mediterranean coast. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went further; it reached as far as China and the Mediterranean Sea before subsiding. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this pandemic.
In 1920 the world was faced with the influenza pandemic. It would be the first of two pandemics to involve the H1N1 influenza virus, with the second being in 2009. Many historians claimed that the flu originated came from Spain, France or U.S.A. This Spanish Flu had a massive reach, infecting 500 million people around the world. The death toll worldwide was up to 100 million, making it one of the deadliest in human history.
Comparing to the past, today we have a different epidemic situation, we can describe it as minor and less sever, but despite that, China is leading a war against the coronavirus, the authorities did not hide the case, and on the contrary they exposed it to the Chinese citizen and to the international leaders and communities. After holding a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year, the Chinese President Xi Jinping made a warning speech about the spread of this deadly new virus and promised ramped up measures to contain the situation.
China quickly shared the genetic code for the virus with researchers around the world and the Chinese authorities organized for the citizens’ awareness campaigns in each province and region, explaining the virus, the symptoms and the precautions.
In order to win this epidemic war and stop the spread of the virus several cities were lockdown with tight control on borders and several flights (national and international) were cancelled. Yet it was the Chinese New Year holidays, but China’s manpower; workers, paramilitary police, officers and volunteers answered the call of duty showing patriotism and dedication and started applying the authority’s recommended measures.
The Chinese people have shown solidarity in many ways; for example, many business man and company owners made large donations, such as the Alibaba owner Jack Ma, donated 14 million dollars for the two Chinese government research organizations to develop corona virus vaccine
Indeed, other companies have done the same and shown solidarity with donations as telecom equipment and smartphone maker Huawei, e-commerce company Tencent, search engine Baidu, TikTok owner ByteDance and food delivery firm, Meituan- Dianping.
Differently, some people didn’t made donations in terms of money but made a priceless contribution devoting their efforts and putting their hearts and souls into this war against the virus, in particular the doctors, fully dedicated, working on clock on the front line risking and sacrificing their lives to save other people’s lives.
Many citizens volunteered to participate in many tasks, working along with official officers, protecting their cities and area, checking everyone who goes in or out, giving away free food, medical supplies, masks, gloves, sanitary and disinfectant products.
As we all know, China is considered a Tech-Giant, the technology is one of its advantages and it seen as an efficient way to control and to manage this kind of situations, in order to contain and prevent from this epidemic, we saw many officers using equipped drones with cameras and microphones to warn people and spread awareness. Also, robot was used in hospital to minimize the risk of the contamination providing services as collecting used equipment such masks and suits.
China has shown to the world the power of the heavy industry by building a special hospital to treat the infected patients with the coronavirus, just in 10 days!! There’s NO nation or country in the world could done such a thing in such short notice!! The Huoshenshan hospital took the joint effort of construction of utility workers and paramilitary police officer; "We've mobilized all the workers left in Wuhan to work in shifts to ensure round-the-clock construction," said Zhang Chongxi, manager of building group Wuhan Construction. It has a capacity of 1,000 beds spread over 25,000 square meters (270,000 square feet) and 1,400 military medics from the Chinese People's Liberation Army will staff the hospital which is equipped with water, electricity, internet and medical equipment, all ready for use.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and discussed the battle against the virus and shared the latest information “data and biological material” of the outbreak to bring it under control.
Lately, China has already started a clinical trial to speedily test a drug for the novel coronavirus infection, the doctors are starting human trials for a Coronavirus treatment, we just cross fingers and hope for best to save our world from this epidemic.
In general, we can see China is taking sever measures and cooperating with the rest of the world in this fight against the coronavirus but also we can’t ignore the sacrifices of a conscious society that responded to the call.
As a country China sacrificed almost everything, human resources, wealth, assets, and materials: in the hospitals as in the construction sites people worked on clock without resting cancelling the family reunion for the new year and leaving it behind; business owners made many donations to support the government in this fight against the epidemic; indeed many manufactory kept their chain supply on clock to provide materials and medical supplies; plus many people (young-middle-old generations) volunteered provided help and assistance, also donated free masks , free supplies, goods, food and even free services as transport to anyone who’s in need, they even paid for it with their own money.
In this fight against the virus, the Chinese government cares more about the human life; the Chinese governments has only one mission which is serving and protecting the citizen whatever they are local or foreigner, taking down this epidemic and protect the rest of the world, in fact many African countries has shown solidarity, blessing the work of the Chinese government and encouraging the Chinese people.
Dear reader, can you see it? The real secret of the Chinese rise and prosperity? It’s not only the power or the economy, the technology and the industry, but this magnificent agreement and mutual understanding between the Chinese government and its people leaded to a full cooperation without any obstacles. As the government, the people responded to the call with every possible thing; wealth, health and even sacrifices, we still learn from China many lessons, and this time is about patriotism!
Hats off!!
Wuhan jiayou, China jiayou!!
Foued Larby
Phd Student
Institute of African Studies
Zhejiang Normal University
作者｜Foued Larby （非洲教育与社会发展专业博士研究生）
翻译｜曹磊（政治学硕士研究生）
校审｜张利萍（非洲教育与社会发展专业博士研究生）
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浙江师范大学非洲研究院（IASZNU）是在教育部、外交部支持下于2007年成立的中国高校首个综合性、实体性非洲研究院，经十余年发展已成为有广泛影响力的中国非洲研究机构与国家对非事务智库，成为国内首个拥有非洲研究“长江学者”特聘教授的学术机构，是教育部区域和国别研究基地、教育部浙江师范大学中国南非人文交流研究中心、外交部“中非联合研究交流计划指导委员会指导单位”和“中非智库10+10合作伙伴计划”中方智库、教育部“中非高校20+20合作计划”单位、浙江省2011协同创新中心、浙江省新型重点专业智库。
近年来，非洲研究院先后入选中国社科院"中国智库综合评价核心智库榜单”、“南京大学中国智库索引（CTTI）”中国高校智库百强A+、《2018年中国智库报告》高校智库（特色）系统影响力排行榜第4、《中华智库影响力报告（2018）》高校智库影响力排行榜第9，等。
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Established in 2007, the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University, is the first comprehensive and substantive African Research Institute based in China’s universities. In the decade since its founding, the Institute has remained focused on both producing influential academic output, as well as cultivating scholars in African Studies from both China and Africa, gaining reputation as a highly influential academic institution both at home and abroad. At the onset of its second decade, the Institute of African Studies intends to move towards a more regionalized, nationalized, distinctive and internationally oriented direction in its research. At the same time, the institute will continue to encourage young and upcoming scholars to conduct research, and provide them with the necessary support.
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L’IASZNU a été fondée en Septembre 2007 sous les auspices du Ministère de l’Éducation (MOE) et le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (MFA). Parmi les Universités chinoises, c’est le premier Institut complet créé spécialement pour les études africaines. Après plus de 10 années de développement, l’IASZNU est devenue un Institut d’études et un Think Tanks très influent sur les affaires africaines en Chine qui possède un « Savant du Chang Jiang » des études africaines. Il est le Think Tanks chinois sur le « Plan Think Tanks du Partenariat Chine-Afrique 10 + 10 » et un des établissements guides sur le « Plan de Recherche Conjointe et d’Echange Chine-Afrique » du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères. Il est sélectionné par le Ministère de l’Éducation pour « La Coopération Universitaire Chine-Afrique 20+20 », en tant que base principale pour des études du continent et des études spécifiques de pays. Il est également sélectionné par la Province du Zhejiang comme le Centre d’Innovation Collaborative 2011, la base de recherche de la Philosophie et des Sciences Sociales dans la province de Zhejiang. L’IASZNU a été classé parmi les meilleurs Think Tanks (affiliés à une Université) au monde pendant deux années consécutives, en 2016 et en 2017, par le Global Think Tanks Index publié annuellement par la Pennsylvanie Université. En 2018, l’Institut a été classé comme l’un des meilleurs Think Tanks affilié à une université en Chine avec le classement A + du système de classement chinois (CTTI).