events marking the 70th anniversary of their diplomatic ties and the China-Myanmar Year of Culture and Tourism to 2021.China welcomed Myanmars assumption of the role of the country BEIJING, Feb. 10 -- Chinese authorities Monday stressed further increasing the production and supply of key medical prevention and control materials, strengthening the deployment of medics and developing drugs against the novel coronavirus. Workers make medical isolation gowns at a biotechnology company in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang AutonomousG
Region, Feb. 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Lu Boan) Concrete measures should be taken to accept and cure more patients infected with the virus and reduce the infection and mortality rate, accK
ording to a high-level meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committ9
ee. The meeting of the leading group of the CPC Central Committee on the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus outbreak, which is headed by Li, ordered local authoritiesO
to encourage enterprises to increase production of medical supplies such as medical protective clothing and masks, by providing fiscal, taxation and financial policies and policiA
es for government purchase and storage and helping solve the problem of raw materials and labor shortage. Noting some 20,000 medical staff from acrossK
the country have been sent to Hubei Province to treat patients, the meeting asked 19 other provinces to further step up medical staff assistance to H0
ubei while ensuring their local virus control. The meeting also stressed pooling strength to develop anti-virus medicines and vaccines and advance res8
earch on virus traceability and transmission, among others. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Centr7
al Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, concrete and effective efforts should be made to resol0
utely win the war of epidemic prevention and control, the meeting said. Wang Huning, a member of the Sta9
nding Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy head of the leading grouy