On the morning of July 17, 2020, the School of Public Policy and Management and CIDEG co-hosted the symposium on the Novel Coronavirus: Public Policy Response and Public Health Governance via online video link. Domestic experts from the public health domain and researchers of public policy held discussions on the theories of national governance modernization and made systematic, in-depth analysis of China’s healthcare system from a public policy perspective. The discussion was to push for reforms of China’s public health emergency response management system.