[Editor's Note] On August 16, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting to hear the report on the investigation and accountability of Jilin Changchun Changsheng Company's problematic vaccine case. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting and delivered an important speech. Since the occurrence of this problematic vaccine case, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to it and made important instructions many times, demanding that the truth be found out immediately, that accountability be seriously held, that the case be handled strictly according to law, that the safety bottom line be firmly held, and that the immediate interests of the people and the overall situation of social stability be fully protected.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to people's health and safety, repeatedly stressed the importance of ensuring food safety and drug safety on different occasions, and issued a series of important statements on ensuring people's health and safety.
1. Improve the vaccine management system in China with the determination of taking powerful medicine to cure disease, scraping bone and curing virus
Ensuring drug safety is an unshirkable responsibility of Party committees and governments at all levels. We must always put the health of the people first, resolve to cure diseases with strong medicine, scrape bones and cure poisons, improve China's vaccine management system, firmly hold the bottom line of safety, and fully protect the vital interests of the people and the overall situation of social security and stability.
——Important instructions on the case of Jilin Changchun Changsheng Biological Vaccine (July 23, 2018)
2. Improve the national health policy and provide the people with comprehensive and full cycle health services
People's health is an important symbol of national prosperity and national prosperity. We need to improve national health policies and provide people with comprehensive and full cycle health services. We will deepen the reform of the medical and health system, comprehensively establish a basic medical and health system with Chinese characteristics, a medical security system, and a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system, and improve the modern hospital management system. We will strengthen the basic medical and health service system and the team of general practitioners. We will completely eliminate the practice of relying on medicine to support doctors and improve the drug supply guarantee system. We should put prevention first, carry out patriotic health campaigns in depth, advocate a healthy and civilized lifestyle, and prevent and control major diseases. Implement the food safety strategy to make people eat at ease.
——Report on the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (October 18, 2017)
3. To strengthen food safety supervision, strict standards, strict supervision, severe punishment, and strict accountability are required
Strengthening food safety supervision has a bearing on the "tip of the tongue safety" of more than 1.3 billion people nationwide, and on the health and life safety of the broad masses of the people. Strict standards, strict supervision, severe punishment and strict accountability should be the top priority. Party committees and governments at all levels should take it as a major political task. We should adhere to strict prevention at the source, strict control over the process, and strict risk control, improve the food and drug safety supervision system, and strengthen unity and authority. The catering industry should be promoted to improve safety and quality in order to meet the general needs.
——Speech at the 14th Meeting of the Central Leading Group for Finance and Economics (December 21, 2016)
4. Without national health, there will be no well-off society in an all-round way
Without the health of the whole people, there will be no all-round well-off society. We should give priority to people's health in the strategic position of development, focus on popularizing healthy life, optimizing health services, improving health security, building a healthy environment, and developing health industries, accelerate the construction of a healthy China, and strive to ensure people's health in an all-round and full cycle way.
——Speech at the National Conference on Health and Hygiene (August 19-20, 2016)
5. Establish the concept of general health and hygiene, and change the focus from disease treatment to people's health
We should pay attention to children's health, comprehensively strengthen the health and health work in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, strengthen the publicity of health knowledge, improve students' awareness of active disease prevention, and implement targeted nutrition meal or nutrition package actions for students in poor areas to ensure their growth and development. We should pay attention to the health of key groups, ensure the health of women and children, provide continuous health management services and medical services for the elderly, strive to achieve the goal of "everyone has access to rehabilitation services" for the disabled, pay attention to the health problems of the floating population, and thoroughly implement the health poverty alleviation project.
——Speech at the National Conference on Health and Hygiene (August 19-20, 2016)
6. Firmly establish the concept of safe development, improve the public security system, and strive to reduce the threat of public security incidents to people's lives and health
We should implement the Food Safety Law, improve the food safety system, strengthen food safety supervision, and strictly control every line of defense from farmland to table. We should firmly establish the concept of safe development, improve the public security system, and strive to reduce the threat of public security incidents to people's lives and health.
——Speech at the National Conference on Health and Hygiene (August 19-20, 2016)
7. Promoting the construction of a healthy China is our party's solemn commitment to the people
Promoting the building of a healthy China is our party's solemn commitment to the people. Party committees and governments at all levels should put this major popular support project on an important agenda, strengthen responsibility, and vigorously promote its implementation.
——Speech at the National Conference on Health and Hygiene (August 19-20, 2016)
8. We should make great efforts to produce cheap, efficient, high-quality medicines that are needed by the masses, and put an end to counterfeiting
Medical care is an important aspect of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. We should make great efforts to produce cheap, efficient, high-quality medicines that are needed by the masses, put an end to counterfeiting and shoddy medicines, and effectively protect people's rights and interests in life and health. Traditional Chinese medicine is the treasure of Chinese civilization and the crystallization of more than 5000 years of civilization. It should play a better role in the health of the whole people.
——Emphasized during the inspection of Jiangzhong Pharmaceutical Valley manufacturing base (February 3, 2016)
9. People's livelihood work should meet and check accounts with the people directly, without any false statements
We should focus on ensuring the investment in people's livelihood construction, make every effort to solve the education, employment, income, social security, health care, food safety and other issues that people care about, and ensure the normal operation of the livelihood chain. People's livelihood work should meet and check accounts with the people directly. It should not be false at all. We should not only be proactive, but also act according to our ability. What we have promised should be fulfilled.
——Speech at the symposium of the main responsible comrades of the party committees of some provinces and autonomous regions (July 17, 2015)
10. Use the most rigorous standards, the most strict supervision, the most severe punishment, and the most serious accountability to ensure the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue"
The source of food safety lies in agricultural products, and the foundation lies in agriculture. We must clean up the basics and first focus on the quality of agricultural products. We should take the quality and safety of agricultural products as a key link in transforming the agricultural development mode and accelerating the construction of modern agriculture. We should use the most rigorous standards, the most stringent supervision, the most severe punishment, and the most serious accountability to ensure the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the masses.
——Speech at the Central Rural Work Conference (December 23-24, 2013)
