China pledges to keep on helping other countries in whatever they need to fight Covid-19.

China vows to keep exporting protective materials amid pandemic

China pledged continued support to facilitate foreign purchases of protective materials and equipment for combating Covid-19, vowing to maintain the stability of global industrial chains with other countries.

“As Chinese companies resume work and production, they will provide more materials to support global society to help others deal with the pandemic,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a news conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

A similar message was conveyed by State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday to Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic counsellor to French President Emmanuel Macron via phone.

Wang said China would keep its anti-epidemic material exports open to the rest of the world, even though domestic demand was still great.

“China believes that by helping other countries get past the pandemic, it is also helping itself,” said a news release on the Foreign Ministry’s website.

So far, 30 countries and two international organisations have signed agreements with Chinese exporters to purchase products, including face masks, protective suits and nucleic acid testing reagents, said Hua.

“Many other countries are in talks with Chinese companies about purchases,” she added.

Meanwhile, the Chinese government has donated medical materials including surgical masks, N95 masks, protective suits, nucleic acid testing reagents and ventilators to 120 countries and four international organisations, she said.

In addition, Hua said local Chinese governments had donated such materials to more than 50 countries through sister city channels, and Chinese enterprises had made donations to more than 100 countries and international organisations.

During his conversation with Bonne, Wang also underlined that the appeal for worldwide solidarity over the Covid-19 pandemic made by the Chinese and French heads of state during the just concluded G20 Extraordinary Leaders’ Summit had injected significant vitality into global anti-epidemic cooperation.

Faced with the pandemic, the international community should boost its confidence that the virus would be defeated and increase cooperation to deal with it, he said. — China Daily/ANN