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treatment of severe cases. Super-large, mega, and major cities will be encouraged
to retrofit a number of village homestays and rural tourist hotels in their

mountainous counties and districts into dual-use facilities that can accommodate
emergency medical needs.
2) We will strengthen the production and stockpiling of medical supplies to ensure
their ample supply.
We will make continuous efforts to ensure the production, distribution, and

supply of key medical supplies. We will improve stockpiling systems and catalogs,
refine mechanisms for coordinated allocation of personnel and material resources,
and take effective steps to shore up weaknesses at the primary level and on the
front lines in terms of capability, medicine, and equipment. We will ensure

targeted allocation, better link supply with demand, and sort out priorities
according to the severity of the situation on the ground, in order to ensure that
medical institutions and other key institutions such as nursing homes for the
elderly and welfare institutions have access to the medicine they need. We will
support communities, colleges and universities, and enterprises in building up

their stockpiles and strengthen assistance for elderly empty nesters, old people
who have lost their only child, and low-income families to ensure their basic needs
are met.
Major drug store chains and internet platforms will be encouraged to play a

bigger role in raising the efficiency of drug distribution and delivery. We will carry
out price and market order inspections to ensure relevant drugs are sold in ample
supply and at normal prices. We will step up whole-process quality supervision of
drugs, from production to storage, transportation, and use, to ensure their quality
and safety. We will coordinate scientific research in the field of health and pool the

strengths of all sectors to improve our country’s life and medical sciences.
3) We will work faster to step up medical capacity, sanitation standards, and
environmental protection in urban and rural areas.
We will fully leverage the strengths of our patriotic public health campaigns in
organizing large numbers of people in order to spread knowledge of epidemic

prevention and guide people to learn more about health and hygiene, understand
techniques for healthy living, develop good personal hygiene habits, live sound,
healthy lifestyles, protect themselves against the disease, and be responsible for
their own health. We will improve urban and rural hygiene, with the focus on key
areas and venues, clean up villages, and make it a regular practice to clean and tidy

living environments and to clean up breeding grounds for disease vectors, in order
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