Xi chairs leadership meeting on COVID-19 control, makes donation

BEIJING - Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee yesterday on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Responding to a call of the CPC Central Committee to all Party members, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Wang Huning, Zhao Leji and Han

Zheng all made donations to support the COVID-19 prevention and control work. Addressing the meeting, Xi said the positive trend in preventing and controlling the epidemic is expanding and the economic and social development is rapidly recovering, but the situation in Hubei Province and its capital city of Wuhan remains complex and grim, and the risk of a rebound of the epidemic in other regions can not be overlooked.

Xi said at this moment it is important to make unremitting epidemic containment efforts and accelerate all aspects of work in economic and social development. He told Party committees and governments at all levels to accurately grasp the epidemic as well as economic and social development situations to ensure winning the people’s war against the epidemic and achieving the goals of building a moderately prosperous society in all aspects and poverty alleviation.

(Xinhua)