BEIJING: China will step up efforts in building a stronger protection network in the public health domain to better protect people’s lives and health as the country is shifting to COVID-19 regular prevention and control.
On Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, stressed fortifying the public health protection network as he was participating in a deliberation at the annual national legislative session with lawmakers from central China’s Hubei Province, recently hard-hit by the epidemic.
China’s public health and medical service systems have played their key roles in dealing with the epidemic, but some weak links and inadequacies were also exposed, Xi said, urging prompt efforts to fix them.
Xi stressed reforming disease prevention and control system; boosting the epidemic monitoring, early warning and emergency response capacity; perfecting the treatment system for major epidemics; and improving public health emergency laws and regulations.
At the ongoing “two sessions” that also include the annual session of the country’s top political advisory body, issues concerning public health security have become some of the most discussed topics, with national lawmakers and political advisors putting forward bills and suggestions to improve the country’s public health system. – Agencies
