Cherish the important achievements of China’s anti-epidemic struggle
Cherish the important achievements of China’s anti-epidemic struggle
Tong zhaohui
Over the past three years, China’s anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention process has been extremely extraordinary. Facing the severe and complicated situation, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has always adhered to the people first and life first, United and led the whole party and people of all ethnic groups to fight the epidemic with one heart, with a strong historical responsibility and strong strategic determination, optimized and adjusted the prevention and control policies and measures according to the situation, effectively coordinated the prevention and control of the epidemic and economic and social development, withstood the impact of multiple rounds of virus mutation, minimized the serious illness rate and death rate, effectively protected people’s life safety and health, and created a populous country to successfully get out of the epidemic in the history of human civilization.
The remarkable advantages of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system are the fundamental guarantee for China to win the fight against the epidemic.In the face of the menacing epidemic, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has always personally commanded and deployed, explicitly demanding that people’s life safety and physical health be put first, and repeatedly stressing that epidemic prevention and control should be the most important task at present. "In order to protect people’s lives, we can do anything!" Over the past three years, the General Secretary has presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Conference and the Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party for many times, and made important instructions for many times, which pointed out the way forward and provided fundamental follow-up for coordinating epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and provided fundamental political guarantee for calmly coping with various major risks and challenges. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country made concerted efforts to overcome difficulties and successfully avoided the widespread spread of virus strains with strong pathogenicity and high mortality. Since November 2022, we have achieved a smooth transition in epidemic prevention and control in a relatively short period of time, with more than 200 million people being treated and nearly 800,000 critically ill patients being effectively treated. COVID-19’s mortality rate has remained at the lowest level in the world, and it has achieved a major decisive victory in epidemic prevention and control.
Practice has proved that the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s incomparable strong leadership is the most reliable backbone of the people of China when the storm strikes. Socialism with Chinese characteristics system has extraordinary organization and mobilization ability, overall coordination ability and implementation ability, and can give full play to the unique advantages of concentrating on doing great things, difficult things and urgent things. As long as we unite as a "hard piece of steel" under the banner of the Party and give full play to the advantages of the socialist system, the great ship China will surely be able to brave the storm, break the waves and forge ahead.
The majority of medical staff are United in their efforts and forget their lives, which is the backbone of China’s anti-epidemic struggle.The anti-epidemic course of more than three years is a panoramic record of the vast number of medical staff who are dressed in white as a armor, go retrograde, risk their lives and forget their lives, and fail to fulfill their mission. When the epidemic situation in Wuhan was at its worst, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China gave the order, all directions rushed to help, 42,600 soldiers in white went out in reverse, and many intensive care professionals went out to fight as fast as they could, and more than 8 million pieces of protective clothing and more than 70,000 sets of medical treatment equipment were urgently dispatched … The epidemic situation was the order, and white clothes were the uniforms. With sincerity to the motherland and people and respect for life, the vast number of medical staff fought against time and continuously, and built a steel Great Wall to stop the virus with flesh and blood, saving one life after another and interpreting the doctors’ kindness and great love. For more than three years, the majority of medical staff have always adhered to the forefront of the anti-epidemic struggle, guarding their lives with professionalism, taking on the mission with great love, and working with high intensity and overload for a long time. "People first, life first", "Protecting people’s life safety and health can be done at all costs" … These loud China voices reverberate in the hearts of every white soldier and warm the hearts of every Chinese.
In December, 2022, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University mobilized the whole hospital to treat patients in response to the severe peak in COVID-19, and fully guaranteed the treatment of critically ill patients. The picture shows that medical staff are treating patients. Photo courtesy of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital
Scientific prevention and control, rapid response and flexible response are the magic weapons for China’s anti-epidemic struggle.After the outbreak of the epidemic, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core attached great importance to it, made rapid arrangements, formulated strategies and strategies for epidemic prevention and control in time, and led the people of the whole country to launch a people’s war, an overall war and a blocking war for epidemic prevention and control, which effectively changed the dangerous process of virus transmission. After entering the stage of epidemic normalization prevention and control, the CPC Central Committee scientifically judged and determined the general strategy of "external defense input, internal defense rebound" and the general policy of "dynamic clearing", effectively handled more than 100 cluster epidemics, and won valuable time for the development and application of vaccines and drugs and the preparation of medical resources. After the epidemic prevention and control entered a new stage, the prevention and control measures were continuously optimized and adjusted around "protecting health and preventing severe diseases", and a smooth transition of epidemic prevention and control was realized in a short time. Practice has proved that at every stage of epidemic prevention and control, we have made a correct choice based on rationality, science and responsibility. Our prevention and control strategies at different stages have achieved remarkable results.
The practice of the anti-epidemic struggle has fully demonstrated the power of scientific decision-making. Medical experts who fought in the front line of anti-epidemic put forward many important suggestions from a professional point of view, which were adopted by the Central Steering Group and the National Health and Wellness Commission, providing valuable experience for the prevention and control of epidemic situation nationwide. In view of the false negative of nucleic acid detection in the early stage of the epidemic, the suggestion of "clinical diagnosis" was put forward, which was adopted by the central guidance group, so that a large number of patients were treated in time and realized "all due and all due"; In view of the increasing number of early severe and critical patients, the treatment is difficult and the prognosis is poor, it is very important to put forward the principle of "moving forward and actively treating" in time for medical treatment and epidemic control; According to the clinical characteristics of patients, the early identification methods of severe and critical patients are formulated; Formulate a series of diagnosis and treatment norms and procedures, and so on. In addition, rushing to build a shelter hospital, developing vaccines through multiple technical routes, carrying out large-scale nucleic acid detection, tracing the source of big data and identifying health codes, and preventing and controlling the differences by region and classification are all respects and promotion of the scientific spirit, which have provided strong support for overcoming the epidemic.
Work together with other countries in the world to overcome the difficulties and show China’s role as a big country.When you are cold, you will know the pine and cypress, but when you are in trouble, you will see the truth. When the epidemic in China was at its worst, the World Health Organization sent a team of experts to China to help fight the epidemic, and many countries gave them moral and material support. When the epidemic broke out in many places around the world and some countries encountered difficulties, China overcame its own difficulties and launched the largest global emergency humanitarian action since the founding of New China, conveying the big pattern and great responsibility of a developing country, which is responsible for the life safety and health of its own people as well as the global public health. China has co-organized more than 300 technical exchange activities on epidemic prevention and control, medical treatment, etc. with more than 180 countries and regions and more than 10 international organizations, sent anti-epidemic medical experts to 34 countries, provided a large number of anti-epidemic materials to more than 150 countries and 15 international organizations, and provided more than 2.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to more than 120 countries and international organizations … China has helped save thousands of lives around the world with practical actions, and demonstrated China’s sincere desire to promote the building of a community of human destiny with practical actions.
The epidemic knows no borders, and human destiny is shared. In the process of fighting the epidemic, the international community has helped each other in the same boat, showing the powerful strength of the community of human destiny. Strengthening global public health governance still has a long way to go and requires the joint efforts of all countries in the world. We are willing to share anti-epidemic experience with other countries, jointly develop and produce vaccines, strengthen epidemic monitoring and information sharing, and promote the construction of a global public health governance system; With a more open and inclusive attitude, we welcome the international community to carry out scientific research and cooperation in China and make positive contributions to global public health governance; Adhere to multilateralism, oppose unilateralism and protectionism, promote the construction of an open, inclusive, inclusive, balanced and win-win global public health governance system, and make greater contributions to building a community of human destiny.
Be prepared for danger in times of peace, "combining peace with epidemic", and resolutely consolidate the hard-won major achievements in epidemic prevention and control.On February 16th, 2023, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting, fully affirmed the great achievements made in China’s anti-epidemic and epidemic prevention in the past three years, profoundly analyzed the current situation of epidemic prevention and control, defined the objectives and tasks of the new stage of epidemic prevention and control, and made comprehensive arrangements for all prevention and control work. We should cherish the important achievements in the anti-epidemic struggle, thoroughly sum up the anti-epidemic experience over the past three years, grasp the work of epidemic prevention and control in the new stage with a sense of responsibility that we can’t rest assured at all times, strengthen the health service system, and resolutely consolidate the hard-won major achievements in epidemic prevention and control.
We must conscientiously implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee, tighten the "four-party responsibility", focus on key links, strengthen the capacity building of epidemic monitoring and normalized early warning, improve the epidemic monitoring system and information reporting system, make timely and accurate early warning, and take necessary emergency prevention and control measures. We will do a good job in the construction of a normalized, graded and stratified medical and health system, optimize the distribution of resources, build a strong three-level medical and health service network with public medical institutions as the main body, promote the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources, and make graded diagnosis and treatment truly highlight the effect; Take measures to strengthen the capacity building of medical institutions such as community hospitals, so that some minor illnesses can be solved in small hospitals; Effectively solve the problem of brain drain, retain primary medical staff, strengthen security, improve the incentive mechanism, and retain and use talents well. Coordinate the promotion of scientific and technological research in the field of health, and gather all forces to improve the scientific level of life and health; Strengthen the production and supply of medical materials, consolidate and improve the overall deployment mechanism of personnel and materials, and effectively solve the shortcomings and weaknesses in grassroots frontline capabilities, medicines and equipment. Do a good job of "combining epidemic prevention with epidemic prevention". When there is no epidemic situation, prepare for a rainy day and reserve strength, provide people with more accessible and higher-level medical resources by promoting the construction of national regional medical centers, and optimize the regional distribution of high-quality medical resources; In case of public health emergencies and catastrophic accidents, the plan is put in place and quickly switched, the major epidemic treatment base is quickly started, and the emergency medical resources are stably supplied and effectively responded.
Looking back over the past three years, we have overcome unprecedented difficulties and challenges. The important achievements in China’s anti-epidemic struggle are hard to come by and deserve to be cherished. The great practice of the anti-epidemic struggle has fully demonstrated the remarkable advantages of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system, the great strength of the people of China and the Chinese nation, the profound heritage of Chinese civilization, and the conscious responsibility of China as a responsible big country, which has greatly enhanced the self-confidence and pride, cohesion and centripetal force of the whole party and people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and will certainly inspire us to forge ahead bravely in the new era and new journey.
Authors: Standing Committee Member and Vice President of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Director of Beijing Institute of Respiratory Diseases.