Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 2 (Xinhua) Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, State President, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, presided over a panel of experts and scholars on the afternoon of June 2 and delivered an important speech. He emphasized that people's security is the cornerstone of national security. It is necessary to strengthen the bottom line thinking, enhance the awareness of danger, and always guard against major risks in the field of health. Only by building a strong public health system, perfecting early warning and response mechanisms, comprehensively improving prevention and control and treatment capabilities, weaving dense protective nets, and building a solid separation wall can we effectively provide a strong guarantee for maintaining people's health.
Li Keqiang, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Premier of the State Council, and Wang Huning, member of the Politburo Standing Committee and secretary of the Central Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, attended the forum.
At the symposium, Zhong Nanshan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and professor of respiratory medicine at Guangzhou Medical University, Tong Zhaohui, vice president and chief physician of Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University, Zhang Boli, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Military Academy of Military Sciences Li Song, a researcher at the Institute of Toxicology and Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Dean of the Shimin Academy of Tsinghua University, Professor Xue Lan of the School of Public Administration, Vice President and Chief Physician of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association Yang Weizhong, Professor of Tsinghua University Law School, and Director of the Research Center for Health Law Wang Chenguang successively He gave opinions and suggestions on improving China's major epidemic prevention and control system, improving the national public health system, improving the level of medical treatment, playing the role of traditional Chinese medicine, strengthening scientific and technological support, and improving public health laws and regulations. During the speech, Xi Jinping communicated with each of the experts and scholars who spoke to gain a deeper understanding of the situation on some issues, and required relevant parties to study carefully, scientifically improve, and properly resolve.
After carefully listening to everyone's speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a very important speech. He said that in the face of the sudden new outbreak of new pneumonia, the Party Central Committee made overall plans and made decisive decisions, insisting on putting people’s lives and health in the first place. The whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country worked together and took the most Strict, most comprehensive and thorough prevention and control measures, and major strategic achievements have been achieved in the nationwide epidemic prevention and control battle. These achievements demonstrate the remarkable political superiority of the leadership of the Communist Party of my country and the socialist system of our country, the increasingly comprehensive national strength of my country since the reform and opening up, and the powerful forces of the whole party, the whole army, and the people of all ethnic groups in the same boat.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in the epidemic prevention and control struggle, the majority of experts and scholars have exerted their professional advantages with a high sense of political responsibility and mission. They have analyzed the epidemic situation, improved prevention and control strategies, guided medical treatment, accelerated scientific research, revised laws and regulations, and promoted international Cooperation and other aspects have made suggestions and made important contributions to the epidemic prevention and control struggle. On behalf of the Party Central Committee, Xi Jinping expressed heartfelt thanks to everyone.
Xi Jinping emphasized that human health is the foundation of social civilization and progress. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has clarified the Party’s health and health work guidelines in the new era, strengthened system guarantees to improve people’s health, insisted on prevention, and steadily developed the public health service system to successfully prevent and respond to H1N1 , H7N9, Ebola hemorrhagic fever and other sudden outbreaks, the incidence of major infectious diseases has dropped significantly. In the historical process of achieving the goal of "two hundred years", the development of health and wellness has always been in a fundamental position, closely linked with the country's overall strategy, and played an important supporting role.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the disease prevention and control system is an important guarantee for protecting people's health, ensuring public health safety, and maintaining economic and social stability. We must base our efforts on more precise and effective prevention, and increase reform efforts in rationalizing institutional mechanisms, clarifying functional positioning, and enhancing professional capabilities. It is necessary to establish a stable public health investment mechanism, improve the basic conditions for disease prevention and control, and improve public health services. It is necessary to optimize and perfect the function setting of disease prevention and control institutions, and establish a mechanism of division of labor and cooperation that links up and down. It is necessary to strengthen the capacity building of national disease prevention and control institutions and strengthen their technology, capacity and talent reserves. It is necessary to improve the mechanism of joint work between disease control institutions and urban and rural communities, strengthen the disease prevention responsibilities of township health centers and community health service centers, and consolidate the grassroots foundation of joint prevention and control. It is necessary to innovate the medical-defense cooperative mechanism and establish a mechanism in which personnel communication, information communication, resource communication, and supervision and supervision are mutually restricted. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the disease control talent team, establish a talent training and utilization mechanism suitable for the modern disease control system, and stabilize the grassroots disease control team. It is necessary to build a group of high-level public health colleges, focusing on cultivating talents who can solve practical problems such as etiology identification, epidemic situation research and propagation rule research, on-site epidemiological investigation, and laboratory testing.
Xi Jinping emphasized that it is imperative to improve early monitoring and early warning capabilities as a matter of urgency to improve the public health system, improve the monitoring system for infectious diseases and public health emergencies, improve the monitoring mechanism for unexplained diseases and abnormal health events, and increase the sensitivity and accuracy of assessment monitoring. Establish a multi-point trigger mechanism for intelligent early warning, improve the multi-channel monitoring and early warning mechanism, and improve the ability of real-time analysis and centralized research and judgment. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of laboratory testing networks and enhance the ability to detect infectious diseases. It is necessary to establish a coordinated monitoring mechanism between public health institutions and medical institutions, to play the role of grass-roots sentinels, and to achieve early detection, early reporting, and early disposal. It is necessary to improve the response plan system for public health emergencies, and establish a health emergency response team at different levels, covering areas such as situation assessment, epidemiological investigation, medical treatment, laboratory testing, community guidance, and material allocation. It is necessary to strengthen the knowledge reserve and training drills of primary-level health personnel, and to improve the early disposal capacity. It is necessary to carry out in-depth publicity and education of health emergency knowledge, improve the people's awareness of public health emergencies, and prevent self-help and mutual rescue. Party committees and governments at all levels should establish regular research and deployment of major epidemic prevention and control and other health work mechanisms, so that the instructions are clear, the system is orderly, the blocks are smooth, and the implementation is strong.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia, we insist on the supremacy of the people and the supremacy of life. We have unprecedentedly mobilized national resources to carry out large-scale treatment, without omitting an infected person, and not giving up every patient, from newborn babies to more than 100 Old people do not give up to ensure that patients do not affect medical treatment due to cost issues. It is necessary to coordinate the mobilization response, regional linkage, and personnel mobilization of medical and health institutions under an emergency state, and establish and improve a major epidemic rescue mechanism of classification, stratification, and diversion. It is necessary to comprehensively strengthen the capacity of public hospitals for the treatment of infectious diseases, improve the standards for the construction of infectious disease prevention and treatment facilities in general hospitals, and enhance the capacity of emergency medical treatment reserves. Focus on urban communities and rural grassroots, border port cities, county-level hospitals and traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, and improve the urban-rural tertiary medical service network. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of national medical centers, regional medical centers and other bases to enhance the ability to treat major infectious diseases.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the patriotic health movement is a successful practice of our party in applying the mass line to health and disease prevention. It is necessary to sum up the experience of the fight against new pneumonia epidemic prevention and control, enrich the connotation of patriotic health work, innovate ways and methods, promote the transformation from environmental health management to comprehensive social health management, and solve the overall and long-term problems related to people's health. It is necessary to comprehensively improve the human settlement environment, strengthen the construction of public health environment infrastructure, promote the improvement of urban and rural environmental health, and promote the creation of sanitary cities and towns. It is necessary to advocate a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally-friendly lifestyle, promote the popularization of health knowledge, establish a good diet, and promote civilized and healthy living habits. It is necessary to promote the integration of health into all policies, and to integrate the whole life cycle health management concept into all aspects of the whole process of urban planning, construction and management. Party committees and governments at all levels should put patriotic health work on the important agenda and explore more effective ways of social mobilization.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the combination of Chinese and Western medicine and the combination of Chinese and Western medicines is a major feature of the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, and is also a vivid practice of inheriting the essence of traditional Chinese medicine and maintaining integrity. It is necessary to strengthen the sorting and excavation of the essence of classical medical books, build a batch of scientific research support platforms, reform and improve the review and approval mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine, and promote the research and development and industrial development of new traditional Chinese medicine. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of traditional Chinese medicine service system and improve the emergency and treatment capacity of traditional Chinese medicine hospitals. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of talents with Chinese medicine characteristics and build a high-level national TCM epidemic prevention team. It is necessary to strengthen the organization and leadership of the work of Chinese medicine and promote the complementary and coordinated development of Chinese and Western medicine.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the law revision and formulation of infectious disease prevention law, public health emergency response law and other laws should be promoted in a targeted manner, and the law enforcement mechanism with clear powers and responsibilities, standardized procedures, and strong enforcement of epidemic prevention and control should be improved to further improve the law Measures for the prevention and control of major new and emerging infectious diseases clearly clarify the responsibilities of the central and local governments, governments and departments, administrative agencies and professional institutions. It is necessary to popularize laws and regulations on public health safety and epidemic prevention and control, and promote the whole society to act and act in accordance with the law.
Xi Jinping pointed out that science and technology are a sharp weapon in the struggle of human beings against diseases, and that humankind cannot overcome major disasters without scientific development and technological innovation. We must increase investment in science and technology in the field of health, concentrate our efforts on core technological research, and take advantage of the new nationwide system. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the scientific research talent development system and mechanism, improve the discovery, training, and incentive mechanism of strategic scientists and innovative scientific and technological talents, attract more outstanding talents into the scientific research team, and create conditions for them to stand out.
Xi Jinping emphasized that since the outbreak, we have upheld the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, actively fulfilled our international obligations, closely cooperated with the World Health Organization and relevant countries, and actively shared the information and experience of the outbreak and virus with the international community. Many countries and international organizations provide material and technical assistance within their capacity, which reflects the responsibility of a responsible big country. We must continue to fulfill our international obligations, play the role of the world's largest supplier of anti-epidemic materials, and jointly build a human health and health community.
Ding Xuexiang, Liu He, Sun Chunlan, Yang Jiechi, Zhang Youxia, Huang Kunming, Cai Qi, Wang Yong, Xiao Jie, Zhao Kezhi and He Lifeng attended the forum.
Relevant departments of the central and state organs are mainly responsible for comrades, the Legal Work Committee of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the Central Military Commission General Office are mainly responsible for comrades, representatives of experts and scholars to participate in the forum.