General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out at the national commendation meeting on fighting against COVID-19 epidemic that the struggle against COVID-19 epidemic has made great strategic achievements, which fully demonstrated the remarkable advantages of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and China’s socialist system, the great strength of the China people and the Chinese nation, the profound heritage of Chinese civilization and the conscious responsibility of China as a responsible big country. In this life-and-death contest with a serious epidemic, the people of China and the Chinese nation, with their dauntless spirit of daring to struggle and win, have forged a great anti-epidemic spirit of putting life first, uniting the whole country, giving up one’s life and forgetting one’s death, respecting science and sharing a common destiny. China’s fight against the epidemic has fully demonstrated the spirit of China, China’s strength and China’s responsibility.
First, the major strategic achievements in fighting the epidemic have fully demonstrated the strength of the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership and socialist system.
In its development journey, a country will always encounter many unexpected difficulties, obstacles and risk challenges. Overcoming difficulties and obstacles and resolving risk challenges is a big test for a country’s system and governance system. The country’s institutional system depends not only on whether it can be effectively governed under normal conditions, but also on whether it can cope effectively in the event of sudden major problems. The COVID-19 epidemic since the beginning of 2020 has brought great impact to China and the world. Some epidemiologists pointed out that China could effectively prevent and control such a large epidemic in 2-4 months, which was unprecedented in the history of human medicine. China was the first country to be affected by the COVID-19 epidemic. Under the strong leadership and command of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the people of the whole country helped each other in the same boat, and Qi Xin worked together to calmly fight. It took more than a month to initially curb the spread of the epidemic, and it took about two months to control the number of new cases in the local area within single digits. It took about three months to achieve decisive results in the defense of Wuhan and Hubei, and then successively fought several wars of mass epidemic annihilation in some areas and seized. In this war against the epidemic, China’s institutional system and governance capacity have released great effectiveness and shown unique advantages. As General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out, "The practice of epidemic prevention and control struggle proves once again that the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, China’s socialist system and China’s national governance system have great vitality and remarkable superiority, and they can overcome any difficulties and obstacles.Can make a significant contribution to the progress of human civilization. "
The party’s centralized and unified leadership system is the fundamental guarantee for orderly epidemic prevention and control. The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of the Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. The centralized and unified leadership system of the Party is the greatest advantage of China’s national system and governance system. Epidemic prevention and control fully embodies the advantages of the party’s centralized and unified leadership system. After the outbreak of the epidemic, The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held 21 meetings to analyze, study and deploy the epidemic prevention and control work, and set up the central leading group for responding to the epidemic and the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council, with centralized leadership, coordination of all parties, scientific judgment and precise policy. The leadership mechanism of the Party Central Committee’s major work and the implementation mechanism of major decisions have ensured that the deployment of the Party Central Committee on epidemic prevention and control will be implemented in all fields, aspects and links of social governance in this overall war of epidemic prevention and control. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the national epidemic prevention and control has formed a chess game, and all parties in various places have helped each other and supported each other, showing the advantages of our socialist system in organizing and mobilizing to concentrate on doing great things, urgent things and difficult things at home and abroad, and also showing the unique advantages of China’s political party system.
The epidemic is worldwide, and the prevention and control of the epidemic in various countries is a competition, which is compared with the systems and governance capabilities of various countries. As some foreign scholars have commented, China’s political party system has overcome the lobbying and interference of interest groups under competitive multi-party politics, and has always made decisions and policies from the perspective of the overall interests of the country and the interests of the overwhelming majority of the people, which is the advantage of the political party governed by China.
Second, the major strategic achievements in fighting the epidemic have fully demonstrated the ideological power of taking the people as the center.
What politics wants is to care about people’s hearts. The people’s government is for the people. A political party and government, a system and governance, stand with the people, think about what the people think, worry about what the people are anxious about and solve their difficulties, that is, stand with the correct historical justice, and the people will wholeheartedly support this political party, government and system, and no external force can separate it from the people. The Communist Party of China (CPC) comes from the people, takes root in the people, relies on the people and serves the people. Adhering to the people-centered principle and governing for the people is always the value pursuit of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the socialist system, and it is also the spirit and belief of China’s system and governance system. It can be said that people-centered establishment, administration and governance will continuously release vitality and energy with the support and support of the people.
The epidemic spread quickly, the scope of infection was wide, and the prevention and control was difficult, which had an unprecedented impact on people’s lives and economic production since the founding of New China. In the face of the epidemic, people’s lives are at stake. In this epidemic war, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has always placed people’s life safety and health at the top of the epidemic prevention and control work. During the "epidemic" of the war, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader held many meetings, listened to reports and made important instructions many times, demanding that people’s life safety and physical health be the first priority. "We save lives at all costs. No matter how old we are or how sick we are, we will never give up. In this fight against the epidemic, the oldest patient we successfully treated was 108 years old. " "There are more than 3,000 COVID-19 patients over the age of 80 treated in Hubei." "In order to protect people’s lives, we can do anything!"
The safety of human life is the greatest human right. The first principle of "people first, life first" in the fight against epidemic shows the humanistic spirit of China people’s respect for life and the humanistic care in China’s system and governance. "People-centered" has also become the most frequent key word in this anti-epidemic struggle. A political party, a government, a system, only firmly rooted in the people, with the people, and always maintain the initial mission of serving the people, can not be afraid of any challenges and risks. In the prevention and control of epidemic situation, China adheres to the principle of "all due and all cured". In the epidemic management, the majority of medical workers, police officers, scientists, military officers and soldiers, community workers and grassroots people are United as one; More than 4.6 million grass-roots party organizations, more than 90 million people in party member and 1.4 billion people across the country took full action, and worked together with one heart and one mind and Qi Xin to build a people’s defense line to fight the epidemic; The broad masses of the people understand, cooperate, abide by and consciously implement the isolation measures, which not only shows the people’s confidence in the state system and governance, but also releases the people’s majestic power.
Third, the major strategic achievements in the fight against the epidemic have fully demonstrated the power of cultural values
COVID-19 epidemic is a major public health emergency with the fastest spread, the widest infection range and the most difficult prevention and control since the founding of New China. The extreme nature of the epidemic and the difficulty of prevention and control are not only a test of the country’s material strength reserves, but also a test of the cohesion of national spiritual strength. In the fight against the epidemic, the calm, orderly and optimistic spirit of party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, communities, villages, enterprises, families and 1.4 billion people at all levels in the face of sudden crises and major difficulties has amazed the world. This self-confident and victorious state of mind comes from the confidence given by the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, the inheritance of the long-term cohesion of the Chinese nation, and the development of patriotism, collectivism and socialist spirit contained in the socialist core values.
Numerous touching stories have emerged in the epidemic prevention and control, vividly demonstrating the strength of Chinese excellent culture and socialist core values and converging into a great anti-epidemic spirit. The strong will of the whole nation to unite and overcome the difficulties under the impact of the country’s sudden epidemic; The forces of all parties acted on orders, obeyed the unified and coordinated deployment of the central government, and organized scientific prevention and control, which showed calmness and order; In the society, when one party is in trouble, it spontaneously emerges to help each other and help each other in the same boat; Every family consciously abides by the segregation policy, which shows the feeling of unity of home and country; During the epidemic period, the people of the whole country showed that everyone was responsible and participated, and the social order was maintained by the unity of self-discipline and freedom of everyone.
The powerful anti-epidemic force gathered by touching stories is an indispensable spiritual pillar for achieving major strategic achievements in anti-epidemic and an important spiritual wealth in the new era. As General Secretary of the Supreme Leader said in his speech at the National Commendation Conference on Fighting COVID-19 Epidemic, "The great practice of fighting against the epidemic once again proves that the powerful spiritual power of socialist core values and Chinese excellent traditional culture is a powerful force to unite people’s hearts and gather people’s strength".
4. The major strategic achievements in the fight against the epidemic have fully demonstrated the community strength of human destiny of unity and cooperation.
COVID-19 epidemic is the most serious epidemic disease in the world in the past century. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "The virus knows no national boundaries or races. Only by working together can all mankind win the battle." In this global anti-epidemic struggle, there have been many arguments that are not harmonious and out of step with international cooperation. Some of them are mutually restrictive and dirty, some are addicted to "mouth guns" and TV shows, and some are eager to throw pots, but they cannot hide and stop the general trend of people all over the world who are in the same boat and share the same fate. Mutual support among relevant international organizations, most countries, their people and the international community has always been the mainstream and righteous aspiration of the international community.
To evaluate a country’s institutional system, we should not only look at its domestic governance, but also look at whether it has the necessary responsibility and responsibility in the face of the crisis issues faced by all mankind. In the global fight against the epidemic, China has actively contributed its wisdom, scheme and strength. China’s active participation in global public health governance demonstrates our diplomatic belief in making continuous contributions to the community of human destiny. Since the global epidemic spread, China is still in a severe situation of prevention and control in China. It has sent 34 medical expert groups to 32 countries, provided 283 batches of anti-epidemic assistance to 150 countries and 4 international organizations, and provided and exported anti-epidemic materials to more than 200 countries and regions, explaining the essence of the community of human destiny with practical actions. China shared the epidemic information and China epidemic prevention and control plan with international organizations and countries at the first time. China undertakes the responsibility of a big country, devotes itself to safeguarding international solidarity, calls for international cooperation on various occasions, builds a global platform for public health cooperation, exchanges experiences in epidemic prevention and control, and helps developing countries and other countries in need to strengthen epidemic prevention and control and jointly prevent and control the epidemic; When COVID-19 made a breakthrough in vaccine development, it promised to make vaccines accessible and affordable in developing countries as a global public product. China fully mobilized and exerted its manufacturing advantages. From March 15th to September 6th this year, it exported 151.5 billion masks, 1.4 billion protective clothing, 230 million goggles, 209,000 ventilators, 470 million test kits and 80.14 million infrared thermometers.Strong support for global epidemic prevention and control.
The epidemic situation in COVID-19 is an important event in the process of unprecedented changes in a hundred years. The concept of community of human destiny has been more widely understood and recognized in this epidemic prevention and control. There is only one earth for mankind, and all countries live together in a global village, sharing the same breath and destiny. Human beings can come to this day without exception by solving major problems again and again through joint cooperation. In the face of the common crisis risk faced by mankind, cooperation without confrontation, unity without division has long been proved to be the only historical right way to overcome difficulties. The COVID-19 epidemic has inspired people all over the world that the international community, as a big family, shares common destiny and is closely related to each other, and unity and cooperation are the only way to overcome any common challenges and risks. (Author: Su Changhe, Dean of School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, and researcher of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought Research Center, the supreme leader of Shanghai)
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