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prevention, control, and treatment capacity. We launched pilot projects for
building quarantine and treatment facilities that are capable of operating both

under normal conditions and in emergencies and worked to ensure the supply of
daily necessities. We made every effort to promote the research, development, and
application of vaccines and medicines and guaranteed their production. China’s
domestic Covid-19 vaccines and remedies saw new progress in research and
development (R&D), and China continued to expand international cooperation in

the fight against Covid-19. We put enterprises along key industrial and supply
chains on white lists to ensure smooth transportation and logistics and guarantee
that key industrial chains are not blocked.
Since November 2022, we have continued to improve and adjust our response

measures by focusing on ensuring people’s health and preventing severe cases. We
rolled out 20 measures to optimize our Covid-19 response followed by 10 more,
improved health services and management for key groups such as seniors,
pregnant and lying-in women, and children, and worked faster to help the elderly
get vaccinated. We strengthened the production, distribution, and supply of key

epidemic supplies and effectively dealt with illegal pricing manipulation for
epidemic-related products. We strengthened primary-level medical services,
improved the systems for epidemic prevention, control, and treatment, and
enhanced our emergency response capacity. We provided effective treatment for

more than 200 million diagnosed patients, including close to 800,000 severe cases.
These efforts laid a foundation and made it possible for the government to
downgrade its response to Covid-19 to “Class B infectious disease, Class B control,”
and secure a smooth transition in our response efforts in a relatively short time.
For over three years, China’s fight against Covid-19 has been truly

extraordinary. We efficiently coordinated our epidemic response and economic
and social development, and we effectively protected the people’s health and
safety, thereby minimizing the impact of the epidemic on economic and social
development. For a populous country to emerge from a pandemic largely

unscathed is a miraculous achievement in the history of human civilization.
Practice shows that the CPC Central Committee’s major judgments on the
development of the epidemic, its major decisions on response efforts, and its major
adjustments to our response strategy have been completely correct. It has taken
measures that have proven effective in practice and that enjoy public support,

yielding tremendous results.

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