Using Health QR Code to Fight Against COVID-19: Chinese Government’s New Way of Collaborative Governance with Enterprises

EasyChair Preprint 5043

Abstract

While still raging globally, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had a severe impact on people’s lives in the world. For the first time, the Chinese government cooperated with enterprises and introduced health QR code, to ensure the safety of its citizens. This is a new way of collaborative governance with enterprises, offering much experience for containing the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. This article will first explain what health QR code is, and then, from the perspective of collaborative governance, analyze the main modes and characteristics of the health QR code introduced on social platforms such as Alipay and WeChat. The cooperative operation of health QR codes by the government and enterprises is an innovative and important attempt, not only for enterprises to provide accurate social services for the government, but also for the government to mine large-scale data with the help of enterprises. At the moment, health QR codes have been widely adopted while work resumption is taking place in China, providing beneficial reference for the global fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.

Keyphrases: COVID-19, collaborative governance, health QR code

@booklet{EasyChair:5043,
  author    = {Ting Lei and Yubo Xie and Yibo Tian},
  title     = {Using Health QR Code to Fight Against COVID-19: Chinese Government’s New Way of Collaborative Governance with Enterprises},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5043},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}