Coronavirus inspires ‘tighter health security partnership worldwide’
Chinese President Xi Jinping has once more expressed his gratitude for the help distributed by the international community in its fight the COVID-19 epidemic.
He was commenting during phone conversations along with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday.
He reaffirmed China's willingness to strengthen cooperation with the international community to jointly safeguard regional and global public health security.
Within their conversations, President Xi clearly explained that China's epidemic control measures are obtaining excellent results and that his country is confident in being able to accomplish that year's set goals for financial and social development.
He said China will continue steadily to cooperate with the international community within an open and transparent manner.
Since the epidemic broke out nearly a month ago, China has introduced a series of strict measures, including a lockdown of cities to most effectively support the spread of the virus both domestically and internationally.
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said, "the steps China has taken up to support the outbreak at its source may actually have obtained the world time."
The amount of confirmed cases of infection outside China accounts for significantly less than one percent of the full total.
China's efforts also have won praise from around the world, with French President Emanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson being the most recent country leaders expressing their appreciation for China's timely and effective measures and its own high degree of openness and transparency in combating the virus.
Also on Tuesday, The Lancet published a joint statement by 27 scientists from countries such as Britain, Germany, the United States and Australia, voicing their full support to Chinese scientists and doctors fighting on leading lines of the epidemic together with their opposition to conspiracy theories and unhelpful disinformation.
While the Chinese persons will work hard to contain the epidemic, businesses in the united states also have started resuming production, looking to re-energize global supply chains that contain been suspended because the early days of the epidemic.
President Xi said China has both confidence and capacity to achieve this year's targets for economical and social development, citing the economy's strong resilience, broad space for domestic demand and a solid industrial foundation.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson expressed his belief that the Chinese persons will prevail over the epidemic and minimize its impact on the country's economic and social development.
