Abstract: In the initial stage of dealing with emergencies, the government encounters with the connection and transformation between normalized and ab-normalized management, thus bringing challenges to the territorial management. In terms of emergency decision-making, the territorial government has always encountered with a headache in crisis judgment and emergency disposal; such factors as decision-making information and disposal authority have brought about the impossibility to match the fuzziness of crisis cognition with the timeliness of government response, the uncertainty of response results with the high requirements of resource input, the pertinence of response strategies with the limitation of decision-making authority as well as the difficulty in matching the initiative of crisis decision-making with the severity of accident accountability. Therefore, the territorial responsibility should not overemphasize in territorial management. Instead, both the graduality of scientific cognition, and the specific limits of officials’ duty performance should be taken into consideration; the decision-making system for major emergencies should be optimized from the perspective of improving the law.

Key words: emergency response, emergency decision-making, territorial management, infectious disease incident