A news report by Science and Technology Daily:

President Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on June 2 attended by experts 
and scholars. After this important meeting, some of the experts in medicine, 
public governance and law discussed how China's multi-dimensional response to 
the epidemic has achieved initial victory.

Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a 
professor of respiratory medicine at Guangzhou Medical University, told Science 
and Technology Daily, "In fighting the epidemic, China pressed 'pause' on its 
economy. All medical workers have endeavored to save every patient and never 
give up, working as meticulously as one would when embroidering."

In the medical treatment of COVID-19 patients, China has mobilized an 
unprecedented amount of national resources to carry out large-scale medical 
treatment, without missing any infected cases or giving up on a single patient. 
Treating severe cases has been one of the highest concerns of China's top 
leaders. 

Tong Zhaohui, vice president and chief physician of Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital 
affiliated with Capital Medical University, and a member of a medical team 
dispatched to Hubei, recalled that after listening to his report, President Xi 
inquired about the cost of treatment for severe and ordinary patients, and 
noted that the combination of the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and 
Western medicine is one of the major characteristics of China's COVID-19 
response.

The whole country is fighting the epidemic as if playing a game of chess, 
relying on overall planning and coordination, and especially the command 
system, experts said.

Xue Lan, dean of Schwarzman College and professor of the School of Public 
Policy and Management of Tsinghua University, believes that China's command 
system has been very strong in fighting the COVID-19 epidemic. The Central 
Leading Group for Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control and the Joint 
Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council have played a huge role 
in quickly mobilizing all forces across the country and coordinating various 
resources.

China has also attached great importance to popularizing laws and regulations 
on the safety of public health and epidemic prevention and control, as well as 
promoting the whole of society to act in accordance with the law.

Wang Chenguang, a professor at the School of Law of Tsinghua University, and 
the executive vice chairman of the Chinese Society of Health Law, said that 
China has raised the strategy of Healthy China to the level of the law. It has 
also built a public health legal system with the Basic Healthcare and Health 
Promotion Law as its foundation, and multiple laws as the main body, such as 
the Law on the Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, the Emergency 
Response Law, the Frontier Health and Quarantine Law, and the Drug 
Administration Law. This system ensured that epidemic prevention and control is 
conducted in compliance with the law.

In addition, the combination of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Western 
medicine is a vivid example of making innovation while carrying forward the 
best practices of TCM.

Zhang Boli, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president 
of the TCM University in Tianjin said that President Xi has put forward a 
number of requirements for the construction of the national public health 
system. These include building a disease prevention and control system, 
strengthening early monitoring and early warning capabilities, further 
improving the abilities to treat major infectious diseases, enhancing the 
organization and leadership of TCM work, popularizing public health safety and 
epidemic prevention laws and regulations, increasing investment in science and 
technology in the field of healthcare, and continuing to actively fulfill 
international obligations. In addition, he also pointed out the direction for 
future work.

SOURCE  Science and Technology Daily