Highlights from white paper on China's fight against COVID-19 (3)

The State Council Information Office holds a news conference where it releases a white paper on China's fight against COVID-19 in Beijing, June 7, 2020. [Photo/scio.gov.cn]

China establishes strict, efficient COVID-19 information release system

China has established a strict, professional and efficient system of COVID-19 information release amid its all-out effort to contain the epidemic.

China has released authoritative and detailed information as early as possible on a regular basis, thus effectively responding to public concern and building public consensus.

Strict regulations are in place to see there is no withholding of information, underreporting, or delay in reporting cases of infection.

CPC's strong leadership fundamental to China's rapid COVID-19 containment

The CPC quickly made the right decisions in response to the crisis and implemented efficient and powerful response measures as it has a strong leadership core, a people-oriented governance philosophy, and well-established organization and operation mechanisms.

Within a short time, across-the-board crisis-response mechanisms were established down to the community level, motivating all those involved across the country to follow instructions and act as one.

Some 4m Chinese community workers guard against COVID-19

During China's fight against COVID-19, some 4 million Chinese community workers were working in around 650,000 urban and rural communities to guard against the disease.

Dedicated and responsible, they meticulously protected their communities from the virus, taking body temperatures, screening for infection, disseminating government policies, and sanitizing neighborhoods.

Many ordinary people volunteered at the front line, standing guard in communities, screening for infection, carrying out cleaning and disinfection work, and buying medicines and delivering groceries for other residents' pressing needs.

Preliminary statistics show that as of May 31, 8.81 million registered volunteers across the country had participated in more than 460,000 volunteer projects, rendering a total of more than 290 million hours of voluntary service.

Science, technology underpin China's COVID-19 fight

China has exploited the pioneering role of science and technology and fully applied the results of scientific and technical innovation in its fight against COVID-19.

The close coordination between scientific research, clinical application, and frontline virus control, and between enterprises, universities and research institutes has given powerful support for the war against the virus.

China initiated 83 emergency research and development programs in such areas as clinical treatment, new medicines and vaccines, testing techniques and products and epidemiology and pooled top research resources around the nation in the programs.

Scientific research and development has been integrated with clinical treatment and epidemic control, highlighting the use of new technologies including big data and artificial intelligence.