(Fighting against New Crown Pneumonia) Chargé d’ affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand: Using all resources to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens in Thailand
China News Agency, Bangkok, April 13 (King Wang, Zhao Jingnan) Chargé d’ affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand Yang Xin said on the 13th that in the face of the epidemic, the Embassy will use all resources to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens in Thailand, including Chinese students studying in Thailand.
In an interview with reporters, Yang Xin said that since the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have paid close attention to the health and safety of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese, especially overseas student groups. The embassy also contacted the Thai Ministry of Education, Higher Education Commission, Ministry of Science and Technology and related universities for the first time, asking the Thai side to pay attention to and take care of Chinese students in Thailand. At the same time, the embassy has done a lot of basic investigation and research to understand the situation of Chinese students in Thailand.
He introduced that the country has allocated anti-epidemic materials to the embassy. Prior to this, the embassy has also raised many materials to provide a "health package" for each Chinese student studying in Thailand to help everyone fight the epidemic together.
The staff of Chinese-funded enterprises in Thailand is also a large group. Yang Xin said that the embassy has included Chinese-funded enterprises in the overall deployment of prevention and control, requiring Chinese-funded enterprises in Thailand to be "zero-infected" like the embassy, and adopted a series of internal prevention and control measures. good results.
He said that personnel exchanges between China and Thailand are close. Last year, more than 10 million Chinese tourists visited Thailand. On the eve of the Spring Festival this year, many tourists from various provinces of China, including Hubei Province, came to Thailand for vacation. How to protect the safety of Chinese tourists in Thailand has always been a top priority of the embassy.
"Earlier this year, after the emergence of a new crown epidemic in China, we contacted the Ministry of Health of Thailand and relevant hospitals and departments and took the first measures. On January 12, Thailand discovered the first case of a Chinese citizen diagnosed overseas, After that, the embassy actively coordinated to provide the best medical care and care to the sick compatriots. Up to now, a total of 26 Chinese sick compatriots found in Thailand have been discharged from hospital and returned to the motherland. "Yang Xin said.
He said that after the epidemic further developed, many Chinese tourists stranded in Thailand were unable to return home due to flights and other reasons. To this end, the embassy contacted various parties and used multiple charter flights to directly transport tourists stranded in Thailand back to China from Bangkok and Phuket. There are also some tourists who cannot return to China, and the embassy also actively contacted the Thai Immigration Bureau for visa renewal. During the peak period, nearly one thousand Chinese compatriots flooded into the embassy's certificate office hall to apply for relevant certificates in order to go to the immigration office for renewal.
"In short, the Chinese Embassy in Thailand will definitely use all resources to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens in Thailand, so that they can feel at ease, stay healthy and stay in Thailand smoothly," Yang Xin said. (Finish)