BRI serves as anti-pandemic cooperation platform
By Yan Yunming
In addition to helping boost economies abroad, the BRI has
been also serving as a cooperation platform for countries along the route to
fight against the virus, and employ high-tech methods for public health.
As of April 3, China Communications Construction Co Ltd (CCCC)
had donated 2.8 million yuan ($395, 300) worth of medical materials to
countries including Italy, Kenya and Malaysia. The company has also put forward
its efforts in publicizing anti-virus knowledge.
The SHEC released a handbook on epidemic prevention in
different languages including English, Serbian, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai,
Vietnamese and Bengali, to help its local employees enhance understanding of
the coronavirus.
FHEC worked with local schools and neighboring communities in
Yaoundé, Cameroon to do anti-epidemic education; it also provided water carts
with Ethiopian civil organizations to help disinfect streets.
CTCE provided timely support - including protective masks,
disinfectant and hand sanitizer - to those countries where theirs BRI projects
located, such as Mongolia. CRCC14 helped local employees and their families in
Togo with basic knowledge about the virus.
Many enterprises have provided the recipient countries with
high-tech support.
The CCCC invited medical experts from Wuhan to provide online
guidance for employees overseas. Workers can also consult doctors at the
China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing via online platform.
China Electronic Technology Group Corp helped upgrade medical
facilities in Sri Lanka, sending more than 2,000 sets of equipment to the
country's hospitals, People's Daily reported.
All this is "driven by genuine concern and practical
assistance" and "provides a win-win situation for China and the
recipient countries," said Mboya.
In Bangladesh, many Chinese companies have distributed food,
medical equipment and other emergency supplies in different areas of the
country. Hassan added, "I am always optimistic about the future of the
BRI. Even during the ongoing global crisis, the initiative has raised my hope
as many Chinese companies have provided timely support for the BRI
nations."
"We have been accustomed to witnessing silliness of some
Western politicians and media who smear China. But we have been taken aback
when we see them stooping to ridiculous lows to make China's humanitarian
assistance a propaganda tool during this hard time of humanity," he said,
blasting the Western media, and pointing out that China's assistance through
the BRI is purely out of humanitarian consideration, instead of the country's
own benefits.
Lan Qingxin, an assistant dean of Institute of International
Economy, University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, told
the Global Times said that "The BRI is an important channel for building a
community of common health for mankind."
"Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the China-proposed BRI
has contributed enormously to enhancing mutual trust and building people-to-people
bond between China and countries along the route. It will definitely remain as
China's key focus strategy in the future," Lan said.
According to a statement sent by the China State Construction
Engineering Corp, the company on Tuesday donated a batch of much-needed medical
supplies to Egypt, including 10 ventilators, 500,000 surgical masks, 50,000
protective masks, 2,000 sets of protective suits, 2,000 face shields and 6,000
pairs of disposable gloves.
The company's donation and its efforts to walk a fine line
between epidemic prevention and resumption of production have received praises
from the Egyptian government. Egyptian Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban
Communities Essam al-Gazar, said Tuesday that the company has cooperated well
with the Egyptian government and various local partners and has adopted a fully
closed project management model, which has ensured not only the health and
safety of employees, but also its project's construction progress. The minister
also noted that the company's effective measures are worth promoting in Egypt's
engineering construction field.
Source: Global Times
On April 12, world largest airfreight plane Antonov-225
arrived at Tianjin, carrying 7 million masks and some 100 thousand protective
suits to Poland. Pangjie / People’s Daily Online
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