chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-05-14 14:23 Share CLOSE Visitors attend a photo exhibition marking the victory of Wuhan and Hubei over the coronavirus on April 4, 2021. ZHOU GUOQIANG/FOR CHINA DAILY A research initiated by Cary Wu, a sociology professor at York University in Toronto, has shown that the Chinese government's handling of the pandemic has actually boosted citizens' trust. The professor and his team interviewed 19,816 individuals from 31 provinces or provincial-level administrative regions across China in late April 2020 to research whether the pandemic has shaken the long-standing support of Chinese citizens for their government, reported The Washington Post newspaper. The data show that Chinese citizens' trust in their national government increased to 98 percent. The 2018 World Values Survey reported that 95 percent of Chinese citizens said that they have a great deal or quite a lot of trust in national government.