Strict Party discipline improves officials’ risk management skills, better than US’ two-party system South China's Guangdong Province penalized 20 local officials on Thursday for dereliction of duty in dealing with the local COVID-19 outbreak in May and June, making it the latest province to punish officials for their poor performance in the coronavirus fight, which is seen as an important part of China's dynamic and flexible epidemic prevention and control strategy that has proven effective in the country's fight against the virus. Besides Guangdong, about 50 officials were punished in places which saw flare-ups connected to the Delta variant, including Nanjing, Yangzhou and Zhengzhou — the highest amount and most intense handling after Hubei in 2020.
Chinese ambassador to Laos Jiang Zaidong (R) hands over a box of vaccines to Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh (L) at a handover ceremony in Vientiane, Laos, Aug. 11, 2021.
A pharmacist compounds traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) at a hospital of TCM in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan Province, Aug. 11, 2021.
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a citizen at a COVID-19 nucleic acid testing site in Yunlong Township of Haikou, south China's Hainan Province, Aug. 11, 2021.
