Page 3 - REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 2020 PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ON THE 2021 DRAFT PLAN FOR NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Faced with the sudden and severe challenges posed by Covid-19, General Secretary Xi
Jinping personally took charge, planned our response, and unified the Chinese people of all
ethnic groups in rapidly launching an all-out people’s war to contain the virus. In just over a
month’s time, we had largely contained the spread of the virus in China. In roughly two
months, we had reduced the daily number of new local cases to single digits. And in
approximately three months, we had secured a decisive victory in the battle to defend Hubei
Province and its capital city Wuhan. After this, we effectively dealt with a number of local
outbreaks and sporadic cases.
1) No effort was spared to control the epidemic and treat patients.
We coordinated the efforts of the whole country in accordance with the general
requirement to stay confident, stand united, and adopt both a science-based approach and
targeted measures. A central leading group for coordinating the epidemic response was
established and a central guidance team was dispatched to Hubei. Full play was given to the
functions of the State Council interdepartmental task force. The entire country was mobilized
in the fight to protect Hubei and Wuhan and to curb local transmission of the virus. We gave
clear guidelines for the early detection, reporting, isolation, and treatment of cases, and
mandated that patients be treated in designated facilities where the best doctors and medical
resources were concentrated. We ensured that all treatment-related costs were borne by the
state, and worked to raise hospital admission and recovery rates and to bring down infection
and mortality rates.
We carried out an interdepartmental and society-wide epidemic prevention and control
effort. One after another, provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the
central government activated level-one responses to this major public health emergency.
Officials were dispatched to communities to ensure effective local epidemic control, and social
organizations of all kinds, specialized social workers, and volunteers received the guidance
required to provide epidemic control and social services in accordance with the law and in an
orderly manner.
We took firm steps to guarantee medical supplies and to stabilize the supply and prices of
daily necessities. We quickly ramped up the production of face masks and other medical
protective materials and medical equipment, and added more hospital beds, thereby ensuring
that epidemic control needs were essentially met. We did everything possible to ensure the
well-coordinated allocation of labor in key production areas to guarantee stability in the supply
and prices of grain, cooking oil, and other foods such as meat, eggs, vegetables, and milk.
Various measures were taken to maintain the security and stability of energy supplies, and to
ensure safe medical waste and wastewater disposal.
We coordinated scientific research with clinical treatment and prevention and control work,
speedily developed nucleic acid testing kits, accelerated both the selection of effective
medicines and vaccine development, and began vaccination using domestically produced
vaccines. In so doing, we fully leveraged the role of science and technology in our efforts to
contain the epidemic.
In response to the rapid spread of the epidemic around the world, and while still guarding

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