Speech at the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting to study the response to the novel coronavirus epidemic
After the outbreak of novel coronavirus in Wuhan, on January 7th, when I presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting, I put forward requirements for the prevention and control of novel coronavirus epidemic. On January 20th, I gave instructions on epidemic prevention and control, pointing out that we must attach great importance to the epidemic and do our best to prevent and control it, and asked Party committees, governments and relevant departments at all levels to put people’s life safety and health first, and take practical and effective measures to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic. On January 22, in view of the rapid spread of the epidemic and the severe challenges faced by the prevention and control work, I explicitly asked Hubei Province to implement comprehensive and strict control over the outflow of personnel. On the first day of the first month of the first month, I presided over the The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) meeting again to re-study, re-deploy and re-mobilize the epidemic prevention and control, especially the treatment of patients, and decided to set up a central leading group to deal with the epidemic.
From the beginning of the year to the present, epidemic prevention and control is my greatest concern. I always follow the epidemic spread situation and the progress of prevention and control work, and constantly give oral instructions and instructions. The CPC Central Committee issued the Notice on Strengthening the Party’s Leadership and Providing Strong Political Guarantee for Winning the Prevention and Control of Epidemic Situation. The central leading group for responding to the epidemic situation has met several times to study and deploy the epidemic prevention and control work, and the front steering group has also actively carried out its work. The State Council joint prevention and control mechanism to strengthen coordination and dispatch, timely coordination and solve the urgent problems encountered in the prevention and control work. Relevant departments carry out their duties, and the army actively supports local epidemic prevention and control. Leading groups headed by leading comrades of the party and government have been set up in various regions, and Class I responses to major public health emergencies have been launched. All party, government, army and group organs, enterprises and institutions acted urgently and fought with all their strength. The medical staff fought selflessly and heroically, and the broad masses of the people fought in unity and unity, which started the people’s war for epidemic prevention and control, and started the overall war for epidemic prevention and control. The situation of comprehensive mobilization, comprehensive deployment and comprehensive strengthening of epidemic prevention and control has been formed throughout the country. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee and with the joint efforts of all parties, the prevention and control work is being vigorously carried out, and the social circles and international public opinion reflect that it is generally good. When I met with Tan Desai, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tan Desai said that the speed and scale of China’s actions are rare in the world. This is the institutional advantage of China, and the relevant experience is worth learning from other countries. I believe that the measures taken by China will effectively control and eventually defeat the epidemic.
2020年2月10日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在北京调研指导新冠肺炎疫情防控工作。这是最高领袖在朝阳区疾病预防控制中心调研。 新华社记者 刘彬/摄
总的看，党中央对疫情形势的判断是准确的，各项工作部署是及时的，采取的举措也是有效的。现在，最关键的问题就是把工作抓实、抓细、抓落地。下面，我强调几点。
一、关于疫情防控形势和做好疫情防控重点工作
做好疫情防控工作，直接关系人民生命安全和身体健康，直接关系经济社会大局稳定，也事关我国对外开放。我们要按照坚定信心、同舟共济、科学防治、精准施策的要求，切实做好工作，同时间赛跑、与病魔较量，坚决遏制疫情蔓延势头，坚决打赢疫情防控阻击战。当前，疫情防控方面要重点抓好以下工作。
2020年2月10日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在北京调研指导新冠肺炎疫情防控工作。这是最高领袖在首都医科大学附属北京地坛医院远程诊疗中心，通过视频连线武汉市收治新冠肺炎患者的金银潭医院、协和医院、火神山医院，了解情况、听取意见和建议，慰问一线医务工作者。 新华社记者 谢环驰/摄
第一，加强对疫情防控工作的统一领导。疫情防控要坚持全国一盘棋。各级党委和政府必须坚决服从党中央统一指挥、统一协调、统一调度，做到令行禁止。现在，各地区各部门贯彻落实党中央决策部署的情况总体是好的，但也存在一些薄弱环节和值得注意的问题，必须抓紧补短板、堵漏洞。疫情防控不只是医药卫生问题，而是全方位的工作，是总体战，各项工作都要为打赢疫情防控阻击战提供支持。疫情防控形势不断变化，各项工作也不断面临新情况新问题，要密切跟踪、及时分析、迅速行动，坚定有力、毫不懈怠做好各项工作。
When all localities and departments take prevention and control measures, they should not only consider the needs of prevention and control in their own areas, but also consider the impact on key areas and the whole country. Those who fail to implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee should dare to criticize and order them to rectify immediately. For those who do not obey unified command and dispatch and are seriously selfish, and those who dare not take responsibility, have a floating style of work, and pass the buck, in addition to investigating the responsibility of the directly responsible person, the main leaders of the party and government should be held accountable if the circumstances are serious. Those who neglect their duties should be punished according to discipline and law.
Second, strengthen epidemic prevention and control in key areas.Only by concentrating on controlling the epidemic situation in key areas can we fundamentally reverse the spread of the epidemic situation in the country as soon as possible. It is necessary to focus on the regional overall planning of prevention and control forces, resolutely concentrate treatment resources and protection resources on the front line of fighting the epidemic, and give priority to meeting the needs of front-line medical staff and treating patients. Hubei province, especially Wuhan, is still the top priority of epidemic prevention and control in China, and most patients in other places have a history of contact with Hubei. Stabilizing the epidemic situation in Hubei will stabilize the overall situation of the country. On the one hand, we should continue to strengthen prevention and control in an all-round way, strictly implement early detection, early reporting, early isolation and early treatment measures throughout the province, strengthen epidemic monitoring, concentrate on treating patients, and adopt home medical observation for all close contacts. On the other hand, we should continue to strengthen measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Civil aviation, railways, highways, waterway passenger transport and other outbound passages in Hubei have been closed, which has played an important role in the national epidemic control, but the risks brought by some people’s own outflow cannot be ignored.
Recently, the epidemic situation has spread rapidly in the provinces around Hubei and the provinces with large population movements, and the newly confirmed cases have risen rapidly. It is necessary to compact the responsibilities of local party committees and governments, strengthen the grid management of community prevention and control, implement carpet investigation, and take stricter, more targeted and more effective measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic. It is necessary to find out the risk points and weak links in the prevention and control of returnees in time, implement the responsibility of prevention and control of the inflow and outflow of personnel, and do a good job in passenger health monitoring, disinfection and ventilation of vehicle stations. Beijing has a special status, and now a large number of people who have left Beijing have returned to Beijing, and the pressure on epidemic prevention and control has increased. It is necessary to improve the prevention and control measures, strengthen the control of key groups, reduce the sources of infection, reduce the flow of people and close contact, and resolutely control the development of the epidemic.
Third, improve the admission rate and cure rate, and reduce the infection rate and mortality rate.This is the outstanding task of current prevention and control work. Centralized hospitals should be completed and put into use as soon as possible, and continue to dispatch medical personnel from all over the country to help Wuhan and Hubei as needed, while protecting the physical and mental health of medical personnel. It is necessary to co-ordinate the deployment of personnel, try to concentrate the elite soldiers and strong generals, concentrate the critically ill patients, treat them in a unified way, and strive to reduce the mortality rate. In areas with high incidence, the "Xiaotangshan" model can be adopted to strengthen the rescue work if conditions permit. It is necessary to promote the effective methods of treating severe patients in hospitals in time.
Fourth, intensify scientific research.Overcoming the epidemic disease is inseparable from the support of science and technology. It is necessary to scientifically demonstrate the source of the virus, find out the source of infection and the route of transmission as soon as possible, closely track the variation of the virus, and study the prevention and control strategies and measures in time. In 2016, I proposed that the key core technology research can be unveiled. No matter where the hero comes from, whoever has the ability will be unveiled. For the research and development of vaccines and drugs needed to fight the epidemic, it is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of universities, research institutes and enterprises, pay attention to the combination of scientific research and clinical, prevention and control practices, and speed up the progress on the basis of ensuring scientificity. Relevant data and case data, etc., except those required by law to be kept confidential, should be shared with the scientific and technological circles in China under the condition of doing a good job in national security, and experts in clinical medicine, epidemiology and virology should be organized to study the key characteristics of virus transmission and toxicity, and effective research results should be produced as soon as possible. Experts and scholars should be encouraged to strengthen their spiritual and professional responsibilities and give more professional opinions and suggestions on the premise of scientific research.
Second, about doing a good job in maintaining social stability
Doing a good job in maintaining social stability is an important guarantee for effectively responding to major epidemics. At present, we must do the following work in particular.
First, make every effort to maintain normal economic and social order.While doing a good job in epidemic prevention and control, we should keep production and life stable and orderly, so as to avoid the panic of the masses caused by the increase in confirmed cases and the tight supply of living materials, and bring about secondary "disasters." It is necessary to ensure the production, circulation and supply of staple and non-staple foods, and ensure the supply of daily necessities such as vegetables, meat, eggs and milk, and grain. It is necessary to implement the mayor’s responsibility system of "vegetable basket", actively organize the production of vegetables and other non-staple foods, strengthen material allocation and market supply, and take measures to ensure the smooth passage of vehicles carrying daily necessities. It is necessary to do a good job in the key supply of coal, electricity, oil and gas to ensure the energy demand of residents. It is necessary to strengthen psychological intervention and guidance, and do a good job in humanistic care.
Second, maintain the order of medical treatment.It is necessary to implement special forces, strengthen organizational leadership, strengthen security work for key parts such as designated medical institutions and isolation places, guide relevant units to strictly implement internal security precautions, and spare no effort to maintain medical and isolation order. Those who beat and hurt medical personnel and disrupt the order of medical treatment should be dealt with decisively, and the requirements of "three synchronizations" of handling according to law, public opinion guidance and social control should be implemented to prevent adverse social impact. It is necessary to co-ordinate the medical treatment of patients with other diseases, and we must not lose sight of one thing and lose sight of another. At the same time, attention should be paid to strengthening the safety protection of all kinds of law enforcement personnel on duty at the front line to effectively protect their own safety.
第三，扎实做好社会面安全稳定工作。要加大警力投入，强化显性用警，全面落实公安武警联勤联动联防联控机制，提高见警率、管事率。要保持严打高压态势，依法严厉打击利用疫情哄抬物价、囤积居奇、趁火打劫等扰乱社会秩序的违法犯罪行为，严厉打击制售假劣药品、医疗器械、医用卫生材料等违法犯罪行为。对各种苗头性问题，要密切关注、及时化解，严防各类矛盾交织叠加、形成连锁反应。
2020年2月10日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在北京调研指导新冠肺炎疫情防控工作。这是最高领袖来到朝阳区安贞街道安华里社区，了解基层一线疫情联防联控情况。 新华社记者 鞠鹏/摄
第四，切实维护正常交通秩序。要加强道路交通管控，积极协助做好出入管控地区的人员、车辆、物品检查检测工作，优先保障救护、防疫车辆和运送医护人员、药品器械、民生物资等车辆通行。各地要加强统筹协调，确保人员、车辆正常通行秩序。大城市要根据疫情防控实际需要，研究采取错峰复工、错峰返程和错时上下班、暂停尾号限行等办法，最大限度减轻公交地铁压力，防止聚集性交叉感染。
三、关于做好宣传教育和舆论引导
当前疫情防控形势严峻复杂，一些群众存在焦虑、恐惧心理，宣传舆论工作要加大力度，统筹网上网下、国内国际、大事小事，更好强信心、暖人心、聚民心，更好维护社会大局稳定。
第一，强化显政，坚定战胜疫情信心。让群众更多知道党和政府正在做什么、还要做什么，对坚定全社会信心、战胜疫情至为关键。要深入宣传党中央重大决策部署，充分报道各地区各部门联防联控的措施成效，生动讲述防疫抗疫一线的感人事迹，广泛普及科学防护知识，凝聚众志成城抗疫情的强大力量。要加大对传染病防治法的宣传教育，引导全社会依法行动、依法行事。要多层次、高密度发布权威信息，正视存在的问题，回应群众的关切，增强及时性、针对性、专业性，引导群众增强信心、坚定信心，着力稳定公众情绪。要统筹做好决胜全面小康、决战脱贫攻坚、经济形势等重大宣传，为当前舆论融入更多暖色调，营造风雨无阻向前进的浓厚氛围。
2020年2月10日，中共中央总书记、国家主席、中央军委主席最高领袖在北京调研指导新冠肺炎疫情防控工作。这是最高领袖在朝阳区安贞街道安华里社区，了解基层一线疫情联防联控情况。 新华社记者 庞兴雷/摄
第二，把握主导，壮大网上正能量。It is necessary to strengthen the tracking and judgment of public opinion, take the initiative to voice and guide positively, strengthen the integration and communication, and let positive energy always fill the cyberspace. It is necessary to carry out targeted education on spiritual civilization, strengthen publicity and education on health concepts and knowledge of prevention and control of infectious diseases, and educate and guide the masses to improve their civilized quality and self-protection ability. We must control the overall public opinion and strive to create a good public opinion environment. It is necessary to strengthen the control of online media, promote the implementation of the main responsibility, supervisor responsibility and supervision responsibility, and crack down on those who take the opportunity to create rumors and troubles according to law.
Third, take the initiative and effectively influence international public opinion.The international community is highly concerned about the development of the epidemic, and should take the initiative to respond to international concerns, tell the story of China’s fight against the epidemic, and show the spirit of China people’s unity and solidarity. It is necessary to comprehensively do a good job in diplomatic work related to epidemic prevention and control, continue to do a good job in communication and coordination with the World Health Organization and relevant countries and regions, promote the sharing of epidemic information and the coordination of prevention and control strategies, and strive for the understanding and support of the international community.
Four, about maintaining a stable economic operation.
At present, we still have to adhere to the objectives and tasks of economic and social development this year. We must do a good job in all aspects of economic and social development decided and deployed by the CPC Central Committee, and we must complete all tasks and objectives set by the CPC Central Committee. Areas where the epidemic situation is particularly serious should concentrate on the prevention and control of the epidemic situation, while other areas should do a good job in reform, development and stability while doing a good job in prevention and control, especially the key tasks involved in building a well-off society in an all-round way and fighting poverty in a decisive battle, and we should not wait and wait.
At present, the epidemic has had an impact on macroeconomic operation, and some service industries have been greatly affected during the Spring Festival. The impact of the epidemic on economic operation will continue, which will mainly be reflected in aggravating the production and operation difficulties of industrial enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, delaying the construction progress of investment projects, restraining domestic and foreign business and economic activities, and increasing the pressure of stabilizing employment. We should be aware of these practical problems and potential impacts and actively respond to them.
First of all, we must strengthen our confidence and not be intimidated by problems and difficulties. I have said many times that China is a big country with strong resilience, great potential and great room for manoeuvre. We should closely monitor the economic operation, focus on the impact and impact of the epidemic on the economic operation, focus on the work of "six stabilities", and be prepared to deal with various complicated and difficult situations.
First, actively promote enterprises to resume work and production.On the premise of doing a good job in prevention and control, we should fully support and organize all kinds of production enterprises to resume production and maintain the overall stability of the industrial chain. It is necessary to increase financial support, ensure the reasonable capital demand of enterprises, and prevent the capital chain from breaking. In particular, enterprises that produce important materials and enterprises that have been hit hard by the epidemic in the short term should be given special preferential policies in terms of loan interest rate and term. It is necessary to increase the security for enterprises to resume production and employment, organize migrant workers in key industries to return to their posts in time, make good use of the policy of stabilizing posts with sufficient assistance, solve the problems of difficult and expensive employment for related enterprises, and stabilize the employment of enterprises to the maximum extent.
Second, promote the construction of major projects.The key is to choose the right project and ensure the investment is accurate and effective. It is necessary to seize the golden season of construction after the Spring Festival, increase the intensity of new investment projects and actively promote projects under construction. It is necessary to adjust and optimize the investment structure, and give priority to the investment in the central budget to projects urgently needed for the prevention and control of infectious diseases such as emergency medical treatment facilities and isolation facilities in the hardest hit areas. It is necessary to focus on overcoming the last bastion of poverty alleviation, combine the strategy of promoting rural revitalization, and take epidemic prevention as the starting point to strengthen the improvement of rural human settlements and the construction of public health system. It is necessary to strengthen the protection of land, capital and energy consumption, and ensure that major projects, especially manufacturing projects, start construction in time.
Third, efforts should be made to stabilize household consumption.Expanding consumption is one of the important points to hedge the impact of the epidemic. It is necessary to speed up the release of emerging consumption potential, actively enrich the application scenarios of 5G technology, drive the consumption of terminals such as 5G mobile phones, and promote the increase of consumption in e-commerce, e-government, online education and online entertainment. It is necessary to better meet the consumption demand of residents’ healthy life, take this epidemic response as an opportunity to further cultivate residents’ healthy living habits, guide enterprises to increase the supply of related products and services, and expand the production and sales of green food, medicines, sanitary products and fitness equipment. At the same time, it is necessary to actively stabilize traditional mass consumption such as automobiles, encourage areas where automobile purchases are restricted to appropriately increase the quota of automobile number plates, and drive the consumption of automobiles and related products.
Fourth, improve the ability and level of national governance.This epidemic is a big test of China’s governance system and ability. We must sum up experience and learn lessons. It is necessary to improve the national emergency management system and improve the ability to deal with urgent and dangerous tasks in view of the shortcomings and deficiencies exposed in the epidemic response. This epidemic has revealed that we still have shortcomings and dead ends in urban public environmental governance, and we should thoroughly investigate and rectify them to fill the shortcomings of public health. We have long recognized that the risk of eating wild animals is great, but the "game industry" is still huge, posing a major hidden danger to public health and safety. Can no longer be indifferent! I have given instructions on this issue. Relevant departments should strengthen law enforcement, strengthen market supervision, resolutely ban and severely crack down on the illegal wildlife market and trade, resolutely get rid of the bad habit of eating wild animals, and control major public health risks from the source. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of the rule of law, carefully evaluate the revision and improvement of laws and regulations such as the Law on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the Law on the Protection of Wild Animals, and pay close attention to the introduction of laws such as the Biosafety Law. The epidemic situation revealed a serious shortage of key health and epidemic prevention materials (such as protective clothing), and there may be similar problems in other reserves. It is necessary to systematically sort out the shortcomings of the national reserve system, scientifically adjust the category, scale and structure of reserves, and improve the reserve efficiency. In order to optimize the production capacity layout of key materials, we should pay attention to optimizing the regional distribution of production capacity in the aspect of key material support, so as to get it out at a critical moment, adjust it quickly and use it.
Finally, I also want to emphasize that formalism and bureaucracy have appeared in some places in the epidemic prevention and control work. Some grassroots cadres report that the most typical formalism and bureaucracy problem in the anti-epidemic work is to repeatedly submit various forms. In some local cities and counties, health and health bureaus, emergency bureaus, government offices, county committees, women’s federations, education bureaus, agricultural and rural bureaus, etc. all make one or several forms, which require grassroots cadres to fill in and report them quickly. The contents of these forms are almost the same, but there is no document or department to help villages and towns solve the problem of even a mask and a bottle of disinfectant. There are also some cadres who are floating in style and do not go deep into the front line of epidemic prevention and control, and the basic situation of epidemic prevention and control is unknown. The more Enemy at the Gates, the less chaotic the command, and the more unified the scheduling. Grass-roots cadres should be allowed to devote more energy to the front line of epidemic prevention and control, instead of increasing the burden and consuming the anti-epidemic energy of grass-roots cadres in a formalistic and bureaucratic way. We should examine and identify cadres in the practice of struggle. For those cadres who do not act or act indiscriminately, for those cadres who do not devote themselves to or go deep into their work, and for those cadres who can’t do or can’t do it, they should be held accountable in time, and if the problem is serious, they should be dismissed on the spot.
(Editor: Li Junhui)