Research on Economic Resilience of Small to Mid-Sized Cities under the Novel Coronavirus

ABSTRACT

Under the impact of the COVID-19, China's economy has shown great resilience. Now Chinese society has no chaos that appeared when the epidemic broke out, but stability instead. The research takes 12 small and medium-sized cities in Liaoning Province as research objects, and calculates the urban economic resilience by comparing the changes of real economic output with those of expected output. Then, the author selects GDP equivalent and analyzes the industrial structure to analyze the difference in economic resilience among small and medium-sized cities to explore the reasons for the differences in economic resilience between small and medium-sized cities under the background of the novel coronavirus pneumonia. © 2022 Owner/Author.