Fundamentally, Why does China act quite different from those countries of western world on addressing COVID-19?  Maybe attached insightful article could provide you a way to think about it from the aspects of individualism vs collectivism, and/or sedentism vs nomad.   

https://www.guancha.cn/WenYang/2020_03_26_543799_1.shtml

PS  Well, Ms Long Yintai should read the article, too.