China has been strengthening its monitoring and early warning system against infectious diseases and boosting medical networks to safeguard people's health, according to officials and experts.
These efforts are being made as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers and new public health threats continue to emerge worldwide, they said.According to the report delivered by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, to the 20th CPC National Congress in October, the nation will deepen collaboration and integration between hospitals and disease control institutions.It will also improve the ability to detect major epidemics promptly and increase treatment and emergency response capacity to stem outbreaks of major infectious diseases, the report said.Health and life safety become the most important factors for people to pay attention to.
