"Guide the masses of the people to actively learn health knowledge, master health skills, develop good personal hygiene habits, and practice a civilized and healthy lifestyle". On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the patriotic health campaign, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions, fully recognized the important role played by the patriotic health campaign in the past 70 years in changing the urban and rural environmental health landscape, effectively responding to the epidemic situation of major infectious diseases, and improving the level of social health governance, and emphasized that the patriotic health campaign should be more targeted, We will ensure people's lives and health.

The patriotic health campaign is a successful practice of our party's applying the mass line to health and disease prevention, and a great initiative to implement the policy of putting prevention first. From promoting urban and rural environmental improvement, to improving public health facilities, from vigorously carrying out health knowledge popularization, to promoting good habits such as correct and standardized hand washing, scientific wearing of masks, and focusing on cough etiquette... Over the past 70 years, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the patriotic health movement has adhered to the people's health as the center, insisted on prevention first, highlighted source control, and achieved remarkable results. More and more people realize that prevention is the most economical and effective health strategy for "work to prevent disease"; More and more people understand that everyone is the first responsible person for their own health, and the "key" to health is in their own hands.

Patriotic health benefits everyone; Everyone is responsible for epidemic prevention and control. At present, the prevention and control of COVID-19 in China is facing new situations and tasks. Give full play to the organizational advantages and mass mobilization advantages of the patriotic health movement, enrich the work content, innovate the working methods, and promote the practice of a civilized and healthy lifestyle for the whole people. We will be able to use tens of thousands of civilized and healthy microenvironments to build a social defense line for epidemic prevention and control, and promote the formation of a good situation in which everyone participates in patriotic health and everyone shares a healthy life.

People's Daily (December 27, 2022, Version 1)