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BEIJING. — With the New Year approaching, shopping centres and cinemas in Beijing are welcoming a steady increase in shopper foot traffic.
Across the country, production lines of China’s vast network of factories are humming, allowing no disruption to the supply chains.
Many Chinese provinces and cities have sent trade delegations overseas to fortify ties with their partners and peers and explore new opportunities.
The regained vitality, which came after the country optimised epidemic response, reflects the new achievements in the country’s consistent efforts to effectively coordinate epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development.
With the mutation of the virus, the change of the epidemic situation, the popularisation of vaccination and the accumulation of experience in prevention and control, China’s epidemic prevention and control has entered a new stage.
Shifting from infection prevention to medical treatment, China is making efforts to ensure a smooth, orderly transition of its measures.
A brief look at the three-year anti-virus experience reveals the country’s strength and resilience and cements faith in the future.
Putting people first and giving top priority to people’s lives has been the distinctive feature of China’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since the onset of the virus, the Chinese government has effectively safeguarded the lives and health of the people during the most harmful period of the virus.
The priority on protecting lives has been upheld throughout the country’s fight against the virus.
To contain the epidemic in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, in early 2020, more than 40,000 medics rushed to aid as part of the largest mobilization of medical resources since the founding of New China in 1949. Thanks to the resolute efforts of the medical personnel, over 3,000 Covid patients aged 80 and above were cured.
China has tackled more than 100 cluster infections since 2020, fighting different variants of the virus, including the Delta and Omicron strains, and has never wavered from its principle of putting people’s lives and health above everything else.
Through arduous efforts, China has kept its severe Covid-19 cases and death rates among the lowest in the world.
The average life expectancy of the Chinese has continued to rise amid the pandemic, from 77.93 years in 2020 to 78.2 years in 2021.
As the anti-virus focus shifts to treating cases, China has taken a combination of measures to boost access to medical treatment and drugs, improve health services for the elderly and other key groups, accelerate Covid-19 vaccination, and strengthen epidemic prevention and control in rural areas.
The pandemic fight in one of the world’s most populous nations has been steered and guided by steadfast leadership.
In the face of the sudden and severe epidemic in 2020, the central Party leadership adopted extraordinary measures to tackle an “extraordinary emergency” and immediately exercised centralised, unified leadership.
China set up a central leading group for coordinating the epidemic response, sent a central guidance team to Hubei, and established an interdepartmental task force under the State Council. — Xinhua
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