On February 3, the first day of people returning to work after the Spring Festival holiday, the Working Conference of Sichuan Province on Coping with Novel Coronavirus-related Pneumonia was held in Chengdu; Peng Qinghua, Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and leader of the Leading Group of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee on Anti-Novel Coronavirus-related Pneumonia, attended the conference and delivered a speech. He stressed that it is a critical moment to work against time and fight against the epidemic, and the defense of the full-scale war against the epidemic must be ensured. Departments concerned should firmly implement spirits of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the epidemic and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, take the prevention and control of the epidemic situation as the most important and urgent political task at present, and promote the implementation of the deployments and requirements made by the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province with stronger measures, so as to resolutely prevent the further spread of the epidemic and safeguard people's safety and health.

　　Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, Governor of the People's Government of Sichuan Province and leader of the leading group, presided over the conference, Ke Zunping, Chairman of the Sichuan Committee of the CPPCC, and Deng Xiaogang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and deputy leader of the leading group, attended the conference.

　　In his speech, Peng Qinghua pointed out that since the outbreak of the epidemic, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council had been attaching great importance to the prevention and control of epidemic situation; under the personal supervision and deployment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, important instructions had been made to guide all Party members, armed forces and people of all ethnic groups, providing guidance for the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. Premier Li Keqiang presided over four leading group meetings of the central government on anti-novel coronavirus-related pneumonia, making a series of deployments for the prevention and control of the epidemic situation. The CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province had resolutely implemented the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, taken rapid, intensive, targeted and scientific measures to cope with the epidemic, and launched timely deployments, effective mechanism, scientific measures and comprehensive mobilization, achieving phased results in epidemic prevention and control.

　　Peng Qinghua pointed out that at present, the epidemic situation in Sichuan Province is still in the rising stage, which is very severe and complex, and the prevention and control work of the epidemic is changing in three aspects: from mainly blocking the case import from one high-prevalence area to blocking the case import from all over the country and blocking the transmission between different regions in Sichuan, from mainly blocking the case import from other provinces to focusing on both blocking the import and preventing the transmission, and from implementing unified prevention and control strategy in the whole province to the implementing classified prevention and control strategy in different regions. The changes fully demonstrated that the epidemic prevention and control is not only an encounter war, but also a tough and lasting war, Peng added, the result of the whole prevention and control work would be determined by the work results during this period. The epidemic had sounded the clarion call of the war, Peng noted, the prevention and control of the epidemic situation is everyone's responsibility, which is the top priority for now. Departments at all levels throughout Sichuan Province should take the victory of the battle against the epidemic as the practical actions to enhance consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, uphold the leadership core, and keep in alignment, have confidence in our path, guiding theories, political system, and culture, and resolutely uphold General Secretary Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and resolutely uphold the Party Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership, establish bottom-line thinking, adhere to problem-oriented thinking, strengthen guidance on classifications, ensure the implementation of all deployments, and guard every threshold in a down-to-earth manner, so as to win the battle against the epidemic in Sichuan.

　　Peng Qinghua pointed out that comprehensive screening and strict precautions should be highlighted to ensure the joint prevention and control measures in place. Measures should be taken to further strengthen the prevention and control in rural areas, enhance the grid management system, carry out carpet screening at the village level, find, register, quarantine and observe close contacts of confirmed cases and people coming recently from key outbreak areas, implement home-based medical observation, and conduct centralized quarantine and observation for key personnel if necessary, so as to ensure timely discovery, report, diagnosis, quarantine and treatment of infected people. Measures should be taken to further strengthen the prevention and control work in urban communities, give full play to the role of grassroots cadres, community workers and volunteers, mobilize all community residents to participate in the prevention and control, and carry out a new round of screening targeted at people returning to cities after the Spring Festival, so as to ensure the comprehensive and thorough implementation of prevention and control measures. Measures should be taken to further strengthen family prevention and control, increase people's sense of personal protection and family hygiene, implement home-based quarantine in a scientific manner, provide psychological intervention services in a timely manner, and ensure the epidemic prevention and control for the elderly, pregnant women and children. Measures should be taken to further prevention and control work in public institutions, enterprises and schools, strictly implement prevention and control measures, and ensure the smooth operation of Party and government organs, the orderly resumption of key enterprises, and the absolute safety of all schools. Measures should be taken to further strengthen the prevention and control of key links in transportation, adhere to the principle of strict prevention and control and smooth transportation, strengthen the prevention and control of personnel flow in key areas, and provide classified guidance on the organization and control of the peak of personnel flow returning from the Spring Festival as well as epidemic prevention and control Measures should be taken to further strengthen the prevention and control work in Chengdu, strengthen management in different jurisdictions, carry out a new round of community screening, speed up the renovation and construction of quarantine and treatment sites, and make full preparations for emergency response, personnel and materials. Other cities (autonomous prefectures) in Sichuan should take precautions in combination with their actual situations, because overflow is better than lack.

　　Peng Qinghua pointed out that the safety of people's lives should be ensured and medical treatment should be in place. He called for measures to effectively enhance the ability to receive new patients separately and treat them concentratedly, provide timely medical treatment to all confirmed cases, coordinate online and offline medical resources, and conduct classified management to the treatment of fever patients to reduce cross infection, preventing epidemic transmission in hospitals. He urged departments concerned to do a good job in the reserve and supply of anti-epidemic materials with all efforts, so as to ensure supporting services in place. He called on to urge medical product manufacturers to make every effort to expand production capacity, provide convenience to support qualified relevant enterprises to produce medical protective products, open up more international procurement channels, solicit more donations from the whole society, and coordinate the allocation of resources, so as to effectively alleviate the pressure caused by medical supplies shortage. Practical problems of different groups should be effectively solved and supporting care should be ensured. To achieve this, active measures should be taken to help solve the worries for medical and epidemic prevention personnel, ensure the service guarantee for migrant workers after the Spring Festival, help the affected small and micro enterprises and self-employed operators to pull through, and continue to do a good job in the service guarantee for personnel from other high-prevalence areas in Sichuan. Positive energy for overcoming the difficulties should be pooled to ensure relevant publicity in place. To achieve this, measures should be taken to widely publicize the role models and meritorious deeds emerging in the battle against the epidemic, widely publicize scientific prevention knowledge and prevention and control measures, release relevant information and respond to public concerns in a timely manner, and create a social atmosphere of unity for coping with the epidemic situation.

　　Peng Qinghua stressed that departments concerned should strengthen leadership in the epidemic prevention and control work to ensure abundant organizational forces. Party committees (Party leading groups) at all levels should give full play to their role of ensuring external work under the overall leadership of the Party that coordinates all sides, and ensure that the organizational leadership and command system are efficient, coordinated, and responsive. Leading cadres at all levels, especially major ones, should take on their responsibilities to fight the tough battle, and lead at the front of the battle. Grass-roots Party organizations and Party members should give full play to their role as forts and examples, widely mobilize, organize and unite the masses, so as to transform the Party's advantages in politics, organization and close tie with the masses into a strong political advantage in epidemic prevention and control. Efforts should be made to inspect, identify, evaluate and appoint cadres fighting at the front line of the epidemic prevention and control, so as to encourage them to rise to the challenges, fight in a down-to-earth way and undergo the tests facing the crisis. He called for intensified efforts to supervise all sides, and conduct strict punishment according to laws and regulations to those failing to implement the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the People's Government of Sichuan Province, and shirk their responsibilities or engage in formalism and bureaucracy.

　　Peng Qinghua stressed that while carrying out epidemic prevention and control, departments concerned should do a good job in all aspects of reform, development and stability, especially the key tasks related to the goal of finishing building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and poverty alleviation. Efforts should be made to ensure economic and social development, implement the deployments made by the Sixth Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee and the Economic Work Conference of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, monitor the economic situation timely, pay attention to the influence of the epidemic on economic operation, and work out countermeasures according to the actual situation, including supportive polices to industries and SMEs seriously affected by the epidemic, efforts to stabilize employment, finance, foreign trade, foreign investment, domestic investment and expectations, intensified commencement of new investment projects, promotion of projects under construction, and acceleration of the release of emerging consumption potentials, so as to minimize the impact of the epidemic on economic and social development. Efforts should be made to strengthen the guarantee of living materials, organize the spring ploughing, implement the mayor's responsibility for the non-staple food project, ensure the production, storage and transportation of vegetables and fruits, as well as the production of hogs and other meat products, strengthen the regulation of supply and demand, coordinate production and selling, strengthen market supervision and price monitoring, and severely punish such acts as jacking up prices, hoarding and profiteering in accordance with the law, so as to maintain the market order. Continuous efforts should be made to promote poverty alleviation, make up the deficiencies in line with the target of no worry about food and clothing and having access to compulsory education, basic medical services and safe housing, and win the battle against the deep poverty in Liangshan Yi region, so as to finish poverty alleviation as scheduled. Efforts should be made to strengthen the comprehensive management of public security, listen to the opinions of the masses, understand their demands, and take the initiative to solve contradictions and disputes, so as to ensure the overall stability of the society. Efforts should be made to strengthen emergency on-duty shift, and leading cadres at all levels should shoulder their responsibilities, stick to their posts, and focus on the epidemic prevention and control, so as to ensure the implementation of all tasks.

　　In addition, the conference reported the current epidemic prevention and control work in Sichuan Province. Leaders of Chengdu City, Mianyang City, Dazhou City, the Health Commission of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Provincial Economic and Information Department, the Department of Transportation of Sichuan Province and the Administration for Market Regulation of Sichuan Province reported the situation of epidemic prevention and control, material support, market regulation, transportation organization, etc. through video calls.

　　The conference was held in the form of teleconference, with relevant leaders of the Standing Committee of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, the Standing Committee of Sichuan Provincial People's Congress and the People's Government of Sichuan Province attending the conference at the main venue. Sub venues were set up in each city (autonomous prefecture), county (county-level city, district), some provincial departments and central units in Sichuan.