Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 2nd: Provide scientific and technological support to win the fight against epidemic prevention and control-General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech during the inspection of the research and development of the new crown pneumonia research in Beijing pointed out the direction of progress
Xinhua News Agency reporter
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized on the 2nd when he inspected the scientific research on the prevention and control of new crown pneumonia in Beijing on the 2nd that the scientific research on the prevention and control of new crown pneumonia should be regarded as a major and urgent task. He integrated multidisciplinary forces, unified leadership and coordinated advancement. On the basis of ensuring safety, we will speed up the research and development progress, overcome the key and difficult issues of epidemic prevention and control as soon as possible, and provide strong scientific and technological support for winning the people's war, general war, and obstruction war.
The vast number of scientific researchers and all sectors of society struggling in the field of scientific research indicated that General Secretary Xi Jinping ’s important speech condensed the confidence and morale of scientific research to win the epidemic prevention and control battle, and will continue to invigorate the spirit, accelerate research and development progress, and protect the people ’s lives. Make a greater contribution to safety and physical health.
One of the service providers of new type coronavirus nucleic acid detection in Hubei Province, and the testing staff of the nucleic acid testing laboratory of Wuhan Jinyu Medical Company are processing samples (photographed on February 13). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min
In the conference room of the Office of the Military Medical Research Institute of the Academy of Military Sciences, Wang Shengqi, a researcher at the Military Medical Research Institute of the Academy of Military Sciences, remembered the scene where he had just met with President Xi, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.
"Chairman Xi emphasized that the key to victory in the epidemic depends on science and technology. This is a great encouragement and a spur to our military researchers." Wang Shengqi introduced that the rapid detection kit for antibodies developed by the Military Medical Research Institute and related institutions3 On January 1st, it passed the military production registration review and was put into clinical application.
Wang Shengqi said that in the next step, we must continue to increase research and development in response to the requirements of different stages of epidemic development, and come up with more effective testing reagents with independent intellectual property rights to better meet the needs of epidemic prevention and control investigations.
The staff of Siwei (Shanghai) Biotechnology Co., Ltd. demonstrated the scientific research related to the new coronavirus (photographed on January 29). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting
The rapid isolation of new coronaviruses, some of the drugs have initially shown clinical efficacy, and the combined effect of traditional Chinese and western medicine has been significant ... In the "epidemic" of war, a number of scientific experiments were advanced simultaneously.
"We are very excited to hear the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping." Since the beginning of February, Ye Fang, a professor at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has been assigned to hospitals in Jiangsu for the treatment of new crown pneumonia epidemics, and has supported the front line of the National Chinese Medical Team (Jiangsu) in Hubei Medical personnel keep close contact, and strive to explore the effective combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine in the shortest time. Ye Fang said that their team has completed the judgment of TCM on the etiology and pathogenesis of the epidemic, and formed a corresponding diagnosis and treatment plan for application in relevant designated hospitals in Jiangsu Province.
Behind the achievements of scientific research, the efforts and sweat of the vast number of scientific researchers are reflected.
On March 2, Zhang Linqi, director of the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Center of Tsinghua University, was interviewed by reporters. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Jing
"Want to devote 24 hours a day to the scientific research of the new crown pneumonia virus." Zhang Linqi, director of the Global Health and Infectious Disease Research Center of Tsinghua University, has been engaged in the research of infectious disease viruses for more than 30 years. Starting on January 10, he formed a team with Professor Wang Xinquan of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University to race against the clock in the laboratory to step up research for therapeutic antibody drug development and vaccine design.
On March 2, Zhang Linqi (third from right), director of the Global Health and Infectious Disease Research Center of Tsinghua University, took a photo with his team members. Xinhua News Agency
"In the next step, we will definitely redouble our efforts in accordance with the request of General Secretary Xi Jinping to allow the scientific research results to land as soon as possible and serve patients as soon as possible." Zhang Linqi said.
Effective drugs are the winning weapon in preventing and controlling epidemics. On the evening of the 2nd, Chen Jiekai, a researcher in the Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine and Health, was still nervously analyzing the experimental data. He has recently been urgently transferred to the scientific research team of the New Coronary Pneumonia Virus in the provincial laboratory. Working overtime to design experiments and analyze data has become a recent work norm.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping requested to screen another batch of effective treatment drugs and explore new treatment methods. As a scientific researcher, we deeply feel a great responsibility, and must work hard to exert our professional expertise to make a contribution to precise policy." Chen Jiekai said.
The inspectors performed the inspection in the "Fire Eye" laboratory (photographed on February 22). "Fire Eye" laboratory is a new type of coronavirus detection laboratory jointly established by Wuhan Municipal Government, East Lake High-tech Zone, China Communications Second Aviation Administration, Shanghai Nuorui Laboratory, and BGI. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min
At present, the plasma treatment of ex-patients has been included in the "New Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Program (Trial Version 6)". An active advocate of plasma therapy and deputy director of Wuhan First People's Hospital of Jiangxia District, Liu Bende, said that the clinical effect of plasma therapy is good, and two best recoveries have been found. The next step will be to promote specific antibody screening.
"The important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for our scientific research. As a front-line scientific researcher, although the epidemic prevention task is arduous, it is worthwhile to pay more for the health of the people!" Liu Bender said, hoping that the scientific research will be done soon Make a breakthrough and save more patients' lives.
While accelerating the development of new detection reagents, antibody drugs, vaccines, and diagnosis and treatment programs, we must further accelerate the investigation of the source of disease and block the source. In order to find out where the coronary pneumonia virus comes from, where it is going, new technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data are used in various places to conduct epidemiological and traceability investigations to improve accuracy and screening efficiency.
The inspectors work in the "Fire Eye" laboratory (photographed February 22). "Fire Eye" laboratory is a new type of coronavirus detection laboratory jointly established by Wuhan Municipal Government, East Lake High-tech Zone, China Communications Second Aviation Administration, Shanghai Nuorui Laboratory, and BGI. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min
"As of 12:00 on March 2nd, Zhejiang Province has issued a total of 63.693 million health codes, with a green code rate of 98.5%. On the same day, all the counties (cities and districts) in Zhejiang Province were listed on the" five-color map "of the Zhejiang epidemic risk. These are already green 'low-risk' areas. All these show that the early-stage precision intelligent control measures in Zhejiang Province have all come to fruition. "Said Chen Guangsheng, executive deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention Work Leading Group Office. The supporting combination of boxing, coordinating the prevention and control of epidemic situation and resumption of production, makes our various work arrangements more accurate and efficient, which is conducive to winning the overall battle and prevention of epidemic prevention and control.
Public health security is a common challenge faced by human beings, and all countries need to work together to address it.
Through a cooperative project of the EU Framework Program, Professor Zhou Dapeng of Tongji University School of Medicine and his team have been communicating with scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel for three years. After the outbreak, the team strengthened international cooperation as soon as possible to study how the antibodies could effectively "catch" the virus when the body was infected with the new crown virus.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to scientific research cooperation with relevant countries in vaccines, which has strengthened our confidence in working with international scientific research teams to believe that effective vaccines can be developed." Zhou Dapeng said.
Mankind's most powerful weapon against disease is science and technology. Mankind's victory over major disasters cannot be separated from scientific development and technological innovation.
On March 2, Cheng Jing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a professor of Tsinghua University, presented the results of his team's research to reporters. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Meng Jing
"The General Secretary requires that research on the prevention and control of new crown pneumonia be a major and urgent task, integrating multidisciplinary forces, unified leadership, and coordinated advancement." At the Beijing Laboratory of Biomedical Detection Technology and Instruments, Tsinghua University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tsinghua University University professor Cheng Jing told reporters: "Our laboratory is a microcosm of multidisciplinary cross-cooperation. Here, 12 majors in engineering science cross-cooperation together. Next, we will continue to hurry up in accordance with the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping Scientific research will provide more scientific and technological strength to win the battle against epidemic prevention and control. "(Reporter Chen Cong, Wu Yu, Li Dexin, Wang Junlu, Tan Yuanbin, Li Jinfeng, Zhu Han, Zhou Lin, Wang Yan, Qiu Bingqing, Ma Xiaocheng, Shi Qingwei)