CHINA’S FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19

Joint research report encapsulates wide-ranging practices adopted to tackle outbreak

Editor's note:

China Watch Institute, a think tank affiliated with China Daily, together with the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University and the School of Health Policy and Management at Peking Union Medical College, have published a research report summarizing China's strategy in fighting COVID-19. Here, we take a look at the main points.

Zhong Nanshan

Academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering China has carried out effective prevention and control measures against COVID-19. Thanks to its arduous efforts, China has now largely brought the outbreak under control, which has been a hard-won achievement.

Li Lanjuan

Academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering The joint prevention and control mechanism ensured the supply of medical equipment, materials, reagent test kits and medicines. China has set an example in collective prevention and control, and centralized treatment of patients.

Wang Chen

President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

Fangcang shelter hospitals admitted only patients with mild symptoms, which, apart from quarantining them, created room for regular hospitals to treat severely ill patients.

Dong Jiahong

President of the Clinical Medicine School of Tsinghua University The social governance mechanism, including public security, transportation restrictions and supply of daily necessities, has successfully responded to the health emergency.

Hu Angang

President of the Institute for Contemporary China Studies at Tsinghua University China established a quasi-wartime work mechanism led by the top leader. A guiding working group was dispatched to Hubei province to guide epidemic control, which played a key role.