BEIJING: President Xi Jinping on Sunday stressed efforts to unswervingly pursue high-quality development and improve the people’s well-being when joining a deliberation during the annual session of the National People’s Congress, the top legislature.
Joining discussions with fellow lawmakers from northwest China’s Qinghai Province, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, noted that high-quality development is the general requirement for all aspects of economic and social development.
Earlier on Saturday Mr. Xi Jinping urged efforts to fortify the country’s public health protection network and enhance public hospitals’ high-quality development, noting that public hospitals are the “pillars” of the nation’s fight against COVID-19.
He made the remarks as he joined a group meeting with national political advisors from the education, medical and health sectors on Saturday.
An attendee at the meeting reached by the Global Times said that public medical institutions are the quickest to respond to emergencies thanks to their organizational structure, manifested largely in the timely deployment of medical resources when the nation was hit hardest by the epidemic during the initial outbreak. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the ongoing two sessions, where Xi called for the promotion of the high-quality development of public hospitals, which were the “major force” in the hard-won battle against the epidemic.
“The past experiences in dealing with the epidemic have once again proven a point: China is able to deploy and concentrate resources from different places to accomplish large undertakings,” he added.
Wu Hao, an expert at the National Health Commission’s Disease Prevention and Control Advisory Committee and also a deputy attending the meeting, told the Global Times on Sunday that he believed public hospitals were the quickest in response to emergencies thanks to their organizational structure.
“What’s more, with no other concern over conflict of interests, public medical institutes could step up together in joint efforts to confront the epidemic,” Wu noted. The advantages of public medical and health care were largely reflected in the timely deployment of medical resources when the nation was hit hardest by the epidemic during the initial outbreak, media reported earlier in May 2020.
– The Daily Mail-Global Times News exchange item
