Xi Jinping: To carry out the patriotic health campaign in the new era, we must adhere to prevention first, innovate methods and methods, promote urban and rural environmental improvement, improve public health facilities, vigorously popularize health knowledge, advocate a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle, and manage the entire life cycle The concept runs through all aspects of urban planning, construction, and management, accelerating the construction of a public health system that adapts to the characteristics of rapid urbanization and dense urban population, and carrying out in-depth and sustained improvement of the rural living environment.
This passage comes from General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech when he participated in the deliberations of the Hubei delegation at the third session of the 13th National People’s Congress on May 24, 2020.
Building a beautiful China and a healthy China is an important goal for us to comprehensively build a modern socialist country, and is a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation. Promoting urban and rural environmental improvement and improving public health facilities are key links in building a beautiful and healthy China. They are of great significance to enhancing people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have continuously improved our grassroots disease prevention, treatment and health management capabilities, actively guided urban and rural residents to further develop a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle, and created a clean, civilized, orderly, healthy and peaceful life. environment, allowing people to truly feel the convenience and comfort brought by the continuous improvement of living environment and public health conditions. All parts of the country continue to promote urban environmental sanitation clean-up and rectification actions, focusing on rectifying and clearing sanitation dead spots to make the city's "appearance" more beautiful. Take the renovation and management of back streets and alleys as an example. As the "capillaries" of the city, the "dirty, messy and poor quality" of back streets and alleys seriously affects the quality of life of residents. In response, many places across the country have carried out meticulous management of the environment of back streets and alleys through measures such as installing overhead lines into the ground, diverting rainwater and sewage, and clearing illegal construction, striving to improve the environment of streets and alleys and create a more convenient and comfortable urban "lizi" for the residents. ".
At the same time, in vast rural areas, the improvement of living environment is bringing about a completely new look of rural areas, and the life that rural residents once "longed for" is gradually becoming a reality. In 2023, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas across the country will exceed 73%, the rural domestic sewage treatment (control) rate will reach more than 40%, the proportion of administrative villages where domestic waste is collected, transported and processed will remain above 90%, and more than 95% of villages will carry out cleaning operations . Nowadays, in many villages, the front and back of the house are clean and orderly, the farmyards are beautiful and livable, the villagers' sense of happiness continues to improve, and the villages have a stronger "spirit", which creates the most beautiful background for rural revitalization.
On the new journey, we must continue to promote the construction of a beautiful China and a healthy China, starting from the most urgent practical needs of the people, continue to make up for the shortcomings of urban and rural public health and environmental sanitation facilities, and persist in promoting civilized, healthy and civilized people through measures such as popularizing health knowledge. A green and environmentally friendly lifestyle has become more and more people's consciousness, continuously improving people's health and well-being.
Special expert for this issue: Tian Zhipeng, Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences