Foreigners Share Views on China’s COVID-19 Fight
For the past three years, Mauro De Felip, general manager of Ferrero China, has been spending most of his time in China, particularly in Shanghai.
“I think that China has been particularly successful in managing the pandemic since the very beginning of 2020, without compromising the health of its people, which is the top priority of the government of course,” De Felip said.
After experiencing the country’s hard but extraordinary fight against the virus over the past three years, many foreigners working or studying in China have offered their insights into China’s evolving COVID-19 response strategy.
Unprecedented Achievements
De Felip remembers in particular the first year of the epidemic. “I think they made the right move at that moment. And the results are there to also justify this in terms of the containment of the virus and the protection of the Chinese people at the end.”
Facing the COVID-19 in early 2020, China adopted swift, resolute and great efforts to contain the virus and achieved a decisive victory in the battle to defend Hubei Province and its capital city Wuhan in about three months.
Data shows that China logged the lowest COV ID-19 incidence rate and death toll among all major countries in the world during the period.
The principle and practice of putting the people and their lives first, which China has been upholding in the fight against the virus, also impressed Yulia Temelidi, a Russian student at Tsinghua University.
“No matter you’re a foreigner or you’re a citizen of China, it always puts you as a person first,” said Temelidi, a junior majoring in economy. -