Prof. Gao, now Chair Professor Law at Koguan School of Law, Jiaotong University, was quoted by  Xinjing bao on February 29, 2020 as saying ”Improve social mechanisms, let cons­ci­ence and rule of law prevail”. He also said the most effective way to solve the public health crisis facing Chinese society is, again, to fully mobilise the society's self-organising systems to prevent the harm from spreading. In a well-functioning social environment, note, spontaneous social autonomy is sometimes more effective than artificial organisational systems. Led by the government, the latter sometimes have a certain efficiency, but easily fail in the face of sudden crisis. In the forty years of reform and opening, however, we have unilaterally strengthened the government's organisational system, but failed to effectively stimulate the social self-organisation system. This is a major lesson that we have to learn."