Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 20th (International Observation) China’s World Contribution to Anti-epidemic.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Zan Du Jing
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, it has brought great impact on global public health and economic development. China has always adhered to the principle of putting people first and life first, scientifically prevented and controlled the epidemic according to the situation, coordinated the epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development to the maximum extent, and provided vaccines, materials, experience and information to the international community selflessly. China has made important contributions to the world with its effective epidemic prevention and control achievements, extensive international cooperation against epidemic diseases and stable economic recovery, which has been positively evaluated by foreign experts and scholars.
Scientific and effective prevention and control of epidemic situation
"The speed of recovery here is incredible." On April 8, 2021, on the occasion of the first anniversary of Wuhan’s "unblocking", many international media unanimously expressed their feelings.
When the COVID-19 outbreak broke out in Wuhan, faced with the unknown highly pathogenic virus, the China municipal government put the protection of people’s lives and health in the first place, made a decisive decision to "close the city", mobilized national medical forces to rush to Wuhan, and quickly established two professional hospitals and a large number of shelter hospitals … … After more than two months of hard work, Wuhan achieved "unblocking" and the economy and society gradually returned to normal.
Wuhan is a microcosm of China’s scientific and effective anti-epidemic.
China’s strong social and public health intervention measures have reduced severe cases and deaths in China, alleviated the global epidemic prevention pressure, gained precious time for the international community to fight the epidemic, and provided reference for the international community.
Magdi Dahshan, former vice president of the Medical College of azhar University, pointed out that people knew nothing about the virus at the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak. China has taken many powerful prevention and control measures, adhered to the people first, and achieved great success in dealing with the epidemic. Mohamed Kawash, an Algerian public health expert, said that China’s epidemic prevention measures effectively prevented the epidemic from spreading in such a country with a very high population density during the period when COVID-19 had a high mortality rate and severe illness, which set an example for other countries. The World Health Organization believes that China’s strong measures have not only controlled the spread of the epidemic in China, but also prevented the epidemic from spreading to other countries, not only protecting the people of China, but also protecting the people of the world.
Now, under the situation that the severe disease rate and mortality rate of Omicron mutant strain have greatly decreased compared with the previous strain, China has timely optimized and adjusted the epidemic prevention and control measures, and shifted the focus of epidemic prevention work from "preventing infection" to "protecting health and preventing severe diseases", thus creating conditions for continuing to promote stable economic and social development under the new situation. Yosamba, Secretary of State of Cambodian Ministry of Health, believes that China’s optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention and control measures is cautious and scientific, and it is a strategy based on the understanding of the nature of the virus.

This is a simple fever clinic in Guang ‘an Gymnasium, Xicheng District, Beijing, which was filmed on December 24th, 2022. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Chenlin photo
According to the changes of epidemic situation, China constantly sums up experience, scientifically adjusts and optimizes prevention and control measures, effectively reduces severe cases and deaths in China, and maintains stable economic and social development. It is not easy to achieve such achievements in a country with a huge population. As UN Secretary-General Guterres said, China has made contributions to all mankind in the global fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.
Fully support the global fight against epidemic.
In April and May of 2021, the little-known Brazilian town of Serrana became the focus of international public opinion. With the help of China vaccine, it has become one of the most stable cities in Brazil during the severe anti-epidemic situation. The mayor of the city, Leo Capitelli, said: "China vaccine is the best gift we have ever received."
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, China has been helping each other with the rest of the world, sharing anti-epidemic experience in time, rushing to help other countries with anti-epidemic materials, and actively carrying out international anti-epidemic cooperation.
Based on the principles of legality, timeliness, openness and transparency, China shared epidemic information with the international community: report the epidemic situation to WHO at the first time, identify the pathogen at the first time, share the virus gene sequence with the world at the first time, and announce the diagnosis and treatment plan and prevention and control plan at the first time … … China has provided a scientific basis for the prevention and control of epidemic situation and the research and development of vaccines and detection reagents in the international community. On January 14th this year, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, spoke highly of the response efforts of the China government to the COVID-19 epidemic, and thanked China for its long-term technical exchange and sharing of epidemic information and data with WHO.

On August 20th, 2021, the third batch of COVID-19 vaccine aided by the government of China arrived in Manila, the Philippine capital. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Umali)
While making efforts to prevent and control its own epidemic, China has done its best to help the international community. China has provided anti-epidemic materials to 153 countries and 15 international organizations, co-organized more than 300 technical exchange activities such as epidemic prevention and control, medical treatment and so on with more than 180 countries and regions and more than 10 international organizations around the world, and sent 37 anti-epidemic medical expert groups to 34 countries. China was the first to promise the new crown vaccine as a global public product, to support the exemption of intellectual property rights in vaccine research and development, to cooperate with developing countries in vaccine production, and to supply more than 2.2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine to more than 120 countries and international organizations, thus injecting strong impetus into bridging the global "immunization gap". China actively played the role of traditional Chinese medicine, held more than 100 video exchanges and live broadcasts of anti-epidemic experts, introduced the diagnosis and treatment schemes of traditional Chinese medicine to more than 150 countries and regions, and provided traditional Chinese medicine products to some countries and regions in need.
Kiszelly zoltan, director of the Center for Political Analysis of the zod Weger Institute in Hungary, said that China delivered several batches of COVID-19 vaccine to Hungary, which greatly promoted the large-scale immunization in Hungary. Kenyan international scholar Cavens Adehir pointed out that developing countries in Africa and other regions benefited from a large number of vaccines, medicines, medical equipment and materials supported by China.
China’s selfless help won wide acclaim in the world.
When the China medical expert group arrived, Serbian President Vucic kissed the five-star red flag affectionately at the airport, and March of the Volunteers rang on the streets of Rome. When the COVID-19 vaccine aided by China arrived, Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa personally held a handover ceremony at the presidential palace; The Syrian Foreign Ministry recently issued a statement thanking China for its generous assistance to Syria and other countries during the epidemic … …
As Romina Sudak, a member of the Argentina Research Group in China, Rosario University, Argentina, said when she talked about China’s provision of vaccines to developing countries, China has implemented its long-held concept of "community of human destiny" with practical actions.
"Stabilizer" and "Power Source" of World Economy
On April 22, 2020, the ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project with a total investment of 10 billion US dollars was officially started, becoming the first major petrochemical project wholly owned by American enterprises in China. This year, the epidemic hit the global economy, and China took the lead in controlling the epidemic, attracting foreign capital to grow against the trend throughout the year, becoming the largest foreign capital inflow country in the world.
On January 9, 2023, the first batch of 269 China tourists arrived in Thailand after China optimized and adjusted epidemic prevention measures, which were warmly welcomed by the Thai Deputy Prime Minister and others. With the orderly recovery of China citizens’ outbound tourism, countries around the world generally expect China tourists to inject new momentum into the global tourism recovery.

On January 9, Thai officials welcomed the passengers aboard Xiamen Airlines MF833 at Suvarnabhumi Airport in the eastern suburb of Bangkok, Thailand. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Laheng)
The two scenes from Huizhou to Bangkok are a true portrayal of China’s economy effectively resisting the impact of the epidemic, continuously releasing super-large-scale market dividends to the world, and injecting momentum into the recovery of the world economy.
China effectively coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and achieved a stable economic operation. The role of "stabilizer" and "power source" of the world economy has become increasingly prominent.
In 2020, China will become the first major economy in the world to achieve positive economic growth, with its total economic output exceeding 114 trillion yuan in 2021 and 120 trillion yuan in 2022. Youfu, president of the Israeli Chamber of Commerce, who has been in China since the outbreak, said that he saw "the resilience and potential of China’s economic development". Jorge Machini, a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, pointed out that during the epidemic, China has been an important trading partner and source of investment for most Latin American countries, including Argentina, which is conducive to economic stability in Latin America.
China continues to provide high-quality products and services to the world, which has played an important role in maintaining the stability and smoothness of the global industrial chain supply chain.
In 2022, the total import and export value of China’s goods trade increased by 7.7%, breaking through the 40 trillion yuan mark for the first time, and maintaining its position as the largest country in goods trade for six consecutive years. Especially in the most vigorous stage of global anti-epidemic, China has become one of the main suppliers of anti-epidemic materials in the world, providing support for countries around the world to fight the epidemic. Jose Ricardo Luce Jr., CEO of China, a Brazilian business leader organization, said that during the epidemic, the global industrial chain supply chain faced multiple challenges, such as logistics interruption, energy and raw materials shortage and rising prices, and China made great contributions to stabilizing the global industrial chain supply chain.
During the epidemic period, protectionism rose in some countries, but China always insisted on promoting high-level opening to the outside world, providing new opportunities for the world with its own new development.
From China International Import Expo(CIIE), the Service Trade Fair, the Canton Fair and the Consumer Expo to the high-quality construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, from accelerating the construction of the Pilot Free Trade Zone to the high-quality implementation of the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement, China has always embraced the world with an open attitude and promoted the construction of an open world economy with solid actions. Tian Daixiu Min, chief economist of Japanese Six Sigma Capital Company, said that China, as the main growth engine of the world economy, has always adhered to openness and free trade and played a supporting role in global economic growth.
"The streets in Beijing are congested again, tourists are scrambling to book holidays abroad, and companies expect business activities to pick up." At the beginning of the new year, with the optimization and adjustment of epidemic prevention measures, many international media have captured the positive signal that China’s economy is improving.
Stephen Perry, chairman of 48 British group clubs, said that China’s economic growth is expected to accelerate in 2023, "which will be a major contribution to world economic growth".