China to develop strong public health system to safeguard people’s health
By
People’s Daily
Chinese
President Xi Jinping called for efforts to develop a strong public health
system to safeguard people’s health on June 2.
Xi,
also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee,
made the remarks when presiding over a symposium attended by experts and
scholars.
From
the strategic height of overall national development, Xi summarized experiences
gained and lessons learned in the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, and expounded
on the strategic role of health care.
Xi
offered systematic discourse on a range of major issues, including reforming the
system for disease prevention and control, improving early-stage monitoring and
warning for epidemics, comprehensively enhancing the capacity for prevention,
control and treatment, building a strong and solid protection network against
infectious diseases, and advancing targeted legislative work in the public
health sector.
Xi’s
profound and insightful speech with rich connotations has a significant and
far-reaching influence on the whole Party and the society’s efforts to enhance
the awareness of worst-case scenarios and potential dangers, to promote
high-quality development of health care in the new era, to forestall major
risks in the health sector, and to protect people’s lives and health.
Protecting
people’s lives and health is an important task underlying the Party’s
governance. The Party and country have always attached great importance to the
development of the health cause and the improvement of people’s wellbeing.
Since
the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi
Jinping at its core has put forward explicit guidelines for the Party’s health
work in the new era, solidified the institutional guarantee for improving
people’s health, followed the policy of putting prevention first, and developed
steadily the public health service system. Thanks to these efforts, China
prevented and successfully responded to sudden outbreaks such as the H1N1 flu, H7N9
flu and Ebola hemorrhagic fever, and significantly reduced the incidence rate
of major infectious diseases.
As
President Xi pointed out, good health is a prerequisite for promoting
well-rounded development of the people, a precondition for economic and social
development, a key mark of a prosperous nation and a strong country, and the
common pursuit of the people. The development of health care always assumes a
fundamental position, and has been integrated with the country’s overall
strategy, playing an important role in the historical course of achieving the
two centenary goals.
When
joining deliberation with deputies from
north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at the third session of the 13th
National People’s Congress, the country’s top legislature, Xi reviewed the
great fight against COVID-19 and made a profound point that people’s lives and
health should be considered as the top priority. “We are willing to protect
people’s lives and health at all costs,” Xi said.
The
COVID-19 epidemic is a major public health emergency that has spread the
fastest, caused the most extensive infections and been the hardest to contain
since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949. Facing the epidemic, the CPC
Central Committee has taken the overall situation into account, made resolute
decisions, and always put people’s lives and health first.
Thanks
to the concerted and all-out efforts made by the Party, the armed forces, and
the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, China has made major strategic
achievements in the battle against the epidemic with the most comprehensive,
rigorous and thorough measures.
These
achievements demonstrate the great political advantages of the CPC’s leadership
and socialism with Chinese characteristics, the country’s ever-increasing
comprehensive national strength since the reform and opening-up, as well as the
great power generated by the joint efforts made by the Party, the armed forces,
and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.
Prosperity
for all is impossible without health for all. With the continuous development
of the Chinese society and economy, as well as the constantly improving living
standards, the Chinese people have put more emphasis on their life quality and
health, expecting diversified and individualized health services.
Furthermore,
people’s health concerns not only livelihood, but also social politics. The
prevention of major epidemics and resolving public health risks are of great
significance for national security and social stability.
China’s
public health and medical service systems have played a key role in dealing
with the epidemic, but some weak links and inadequacies were also exposed. The
country should address existing problems squarely, strengthen areas of weakness
and fix loopholes.
Party
committees and governments should reform the disease prevention and control
system, improve early-warning and emergency response mechanisms, build greater
capacity for prevention, control and treatment, and improve public health
emergency laws and regulations. Besides, they should practically enhance the
work of patriotic public health and clarify responsibilities at institutional
level, so as to provide a strong guarantee for safeguarding people’s health.
The
health of the people is the most valuable treasure of a country, from which it enhances
its overall national strength and builds the capability of sustainable
development.
China
will always remain committed to the people-centered philosophy of development, give
top priority to people’s health, endeavor to develop a strong public health
system that offers all-dimensional and whole-of-the-life-cycle health services
for the people.
By
doing so, it will surely create a mighty force that unites the Chinese people
to conquer all difficulties, risks and challenges, and create a better life.
China to develop strong public health system to safeguard people’s health
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