Comparative Research of Crisis Management in Mainland China and Taiwan--Case study of SARS

This research focuses on the SARS epidemic situation in 2003, conducting the comparison study of crisis management in Mainland China and Taiwan. This thesis intends to find how different political regimes affect crisis management procedures. While both China and Taiwan have been through SARS crisis, which strategies and measures have them made? And analyze the different aspects and results between them. This article first introduces SARS epidemic situation development in 2003, after understanding event background; it comes to discuss the crisis management process of Mainland China and Taiwan. Then, analyzes and compares these policies during SARS crisis. The framework about SARS crisis management can be separated to three phases: crisis detection and prevent phase, crisis handling plans and systems phase and crisis recover phase. Finally, from the perspective of epidemic situation crisis management, proposes the findings and recommendations to the governments.