Author(s)

Zhenchuan Jiang¹, Xuanxuan Wang^2,3*, Huanlan Wang^4*, Guo Lu^5*, Guohong Wang^6#, Xiang Zhang^7#, Xun Gong^7,8,9#

¹Graduate School of Lyceum of the Philippines University, Manila, Philippines.
²Clinical College of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China.
³Department of Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine, Hubei Cancer Hospital, Wuhan, China.
⁴Wuhan Hospital of Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
⁵Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China.
⁶Union Hospital Affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
⁷School of Medicine and Health Management, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
⁸School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
⁹Beijing Center for Industrial Security and Development Research, Beijing, China.

Recently, the coronavirus, COVID-19 has been abstracting the most impressive attention of the whole world. Until the mid-March, the number of confirmed cases achieves more than 150,000 in 152 countries around the world. This paper will introduce the impact of the virus in China and overseas. As the first outbreak place, China has suffered seriously from the outbreak of COVID-19. The impact on Chinese economy is profound and complex because of both domestic and oversea factors. However, the author suggests that the risk is also an opportunity for China. It is positive to promote some sectors in both economy and society such as the Internet industry and the response to a public health emergency.

COVID-19, Breakout, Impact Globally and Domestically, Opportunity

Jiang, Z. , Wang, X. , Wang, H. , Lu, G. , Wang, G. , Zhang, X. and Gong, X. (2020) The Impact and Opportunities of COVID-19 in China. Journal of Service Science and Management, 13, 558-566. doi: 10.4236/jssm.2020.133036.