China spares no effort to improve governance capability amid epidemic
By
He Yin
China convened a meeting on Feb. 23 to advance
the work on coordinating the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
and economic and social development, once again demonstrating to the world its
strong organizing and mobilizing capability.
It
was an important meeting to sum up the current experiences on epidemic
prevention and control and make comprehensive deployment and major measures. It
manifested China’s capability, willpower and confidence.
The COVID-19 outbreak is a major public health
emergency that has spread in the fastest speed, caused the most extensive
infection and is the most difficult to contain in the country since the
founding of the People's Republic of China. To protect the lives and health of
the Chinese and safeguard global public health security, China has launched a
people’s war against the epidemic with centralized commanding and unified
actions.
Both the United Nations and the international
society recognized China’s efforts, saying the country’s response is very
strong and very impressive, and the measures are unprecedented. The World
Health Organization hailed that the leadership and political will demonstrated
by China are worth learning from.
Under
the command and deployment made by general secretary of the Communist Party of
China Central Committee Xi Jinping, the Chinese people have stood together and
helped each other in the epidemic, and industries of the country also joined
the battle against the virus under national coordination.
The country, with great political courage,
urged the epicenter Hubei province to implement comprehensive and strict control
of population outflow, and dispatched over 41,600 medical staff from 330
medical teams to assist the province. Besides, makeshift hospitals Huoshenshan
and Leishenshan, as well as Fang Cang, were built in a record speed, and 19
provinces offered paired assistance.
These “missions impossible” were accomplished
by China in a very short period of time, which enhanced the confidence of the
international society in China’s victory over the epidemic.
Former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre
Raffarin noted that the Chinese government’s strong organizing and mobilizing
capabilities demonstrated in the epidemic were impressive, and such
capabilities were exactly China’s institutional advantages.
In the meantime, China is also enhancing
economic and social development amid epidemic control, trying its best to
reduce the impact from the epidemic on its social progress. It is believed by
the international society that China is in a leading position in terms of leadership,
response, mobilization and execution, and has set an example for the world in
epidemic control.
As
a Chinese saying goes, good governors deal with matters at hand, great
governors make improvement on the system. During the work of epidemic prevention
and control, China has always been improving its national governance system and
capability, eyeing its future capacity to deal with emergencies.
The country is taking effective and concrete
actions to enhance its legal safeguard for public health, improve disease
prevention and control system, reform prevention and control system for major
epidemics, improve medical insurance and aiding system for major diseases, and
strengthen the unified system for emergency supplies. By doing so, it will be
able to turn the experiences in the epidemic into practical mechanisms to cope
with major public health emergencies.
The exploration and efforts made by China on
national governance well explained that socialism with Chinese characteristics
is advancing with the time. The system is an important institutional guarantee
for China and offers valuable experiences for the world to win the battle
against the virus.
To prevail over a disease that threatens all,
unity and cooperation are the most powerful weapon. Guided by the vision of a
community with a shared future for mankind, China is acting with a sense of
responsibility not only for the lives and health of its own people, but also
for global public health.
China actively cooperated and exchanged
information with WHO and the international community, shared the whole genome
sequence of the virus strain at the first opportunity, and rapidly developed
the testing kit. The country has also endeavored to curb the spread of the
virus outside its territory by giving support and assistance to other countries
and regions affected.
These actions reflect the sense of
responsibility of a major country, and underline the open mind of socialism
with Chinese characteristics, setting the tone of the concerted efforts of the
world in combatting the epidemic.
Over 170 heads of state and 40 leaders of
international and regional organizations have voiced sympathies and support for
China, conveying their high recognition over China’s responsible measures.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Chairman of
the Kuhn Foundation in the U.S. recently had a profound analysis over
China’s prevention and control measures. He said history may well thank China
for pioneering how to deal with virulent contagions in a globalised world.
The world must be aware that combating the
epidemic calls for the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.
China’s explorations and practices have enlightened the world – global
countries must showcase strong mobilizing capabilities, improve governance
system and capability, and enhance solidarity and cooperation with an opener
spirit, so as to withstand the test of epidemics.
China spares no effort to improve governance capability amid epidemic
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