Xi Jinping Inspecting Frontline Epidemic Prevention and Control

On February 10, 2020, Xi Jinping inspected COVID-19 prevention and control work in Beijing. On March 2, he visited the scientists and researchers working against the coronavirus in the capital city. 

On March 10, the Chinese president went to Wuhan, the main battleground, to inspect the prevention and control work. He visited the Huoshenshan Hospital and the Donghu Xincheng Community, where he greeted the front-line medical workers, People's Liberation Army (PLA) commanders and soldiers, community workers, police officers, grassroots officials and those designated from higher levels, volunteers, patients and residents. He encouraged them to fight with confidence to win the battle against the epidemic. During his visit to the residential quarters, the president waved to the residents undergoing home quarantine and encouraged them to "join the efforts and fight together." He urged local officials to guarantee the supply of fresh fish, which is well liked by Wuhan people. Xi praised the healthcare workers as "the most admirable people" in the new era, and expressed deep gratitude from the Party and the whole nation to the Wuhan people. 

Xi Jinping chaired a teleconference after the field inspection. It was the first time he "met" with officials from across Hubei Province in this way after a teleconference to coordinate national epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development on February 23, and another on poverty elimination on March 6. 

Xi told the conference that the epidemic containment in Hubei and Wuhan is trending on a positive direction, with initial progress achieved in stabilizing the situation and turning the tide. However, the task remains arduous. At this critical moment, people must be sober-minded, remain alert, continue the efforts and continue to take epidemic prevention and control as the top priority and the most important task. All prevention and control measures should be implemented down to the last detail, to defend Wuhan and Hubei and win the war against the epidemic.

Xi pointed out that the response to the epidemic is a big test of China's governance system and capacity. There are both experience and lessons. People should take a long-term view, draw experience and lessons for the future, and work swiftly to address inadequacies and fix weak links in the governance system, so as to consolidate the institutional defense to ensure people's health and safety. Efforts should be made to enhance urban governance as well as urban and rural community management. People should develop "full-cycle management" awareness, and explore new ways of modernizing the governance of mega cities.

習近平赴一線考察新冠肺炎疫情防控工作

2020年2月10日,習近平在北京調研指導新型冠狀病毒肺炎疫情防控工作。3月2日,習近平在北京考察新冠肺炎防控科研攻關工作。3月10日,習近平專門赴抗擊疫情的主戰場湖北省武漢市考察新冠肺炎疫情防控工作,在火神山醫院和東湖新城社區這兩個抗疫陣地,看望慰問奮戰在一線的廣大醫務工作者、解放軍指戰員、社區工作者、公安干警、基層干部、下沉干部、志愿者和患者群眾、社區居民,勉勵大家堅定信心,戰勝疫情。考察期間,他在向居家隔離的社區居民揮手致意,鼓勵“大家一起加油”,叮囑“武漢人喜歡吃活魚,多組織供應”,點贊醫務人員是新時代“最可愛的人”,表達“黨和人民感謝武漢人民”深切之情。

實地考察結束后,習近平主持召開了一場電視電話會議,這是繼2月23日統籌推進新冠肺炎疫情防控和經濟社會發展工作部署會議、3月6日決戰決勝脫貧攻堅座談會之后,他與湖北各地領導干部再次以這種方式 “面對面”。在會議講話中,習近平作出重要判斷:湖北和武漢疫情防控形勢發生積極向好變化,取得階段性重要成果,初步實現了穩定局勢、扭轉局面的目標。當前,疫情防控任務依然艱巨繁重。越是在這個時候,越是要保持頭腦清醒,越是要慎終如始,越是要再接再厲、善作善成,繼續把疫情防控作為當前頭等大事和最重要的工作,毫不放松抓緊抓實抓細各項防控工作,堅決打贏湖北保衛戰、武漢保衛戰。

習近平指出,這次新冠肺炎疫情防控是對治理體系和治理能力的一次大考,既有經驗,也有教訓。要放眼長遠,總結經驗教訓,加快補齊治理體系的短板和弱項,為保障人民生命安全和身體健康筑牢制度防線。要著力完善城市治理體系和城鄉基層治理體系,樹立“全周期管理”意識,努力探索超大城市現代化治理新路子。