1. The city should translate the favorable momentum in epidemic prevention and control into impetus in restoration of economic and social operation. On Mar. 12, Party Secretary Wang Weizhong convened a meeting of the Standing Committee of the CPC Shenzhen Municipal Committee. At the meeting, he stressed that the city should fully grasp the current epidemic prevention and control landscape, exercise due caution through the end, and make relentless efforts so as to resolutely win the people’s war against the epidemic. Epidemic prevention and control shall remain the city’s top priority. The city shall fully leverage the legislative power of the Special Economic Zone to enhance law-based governance as well as epidemic prevention and control. (Source: Shenzhen TV)
2. Shenzhen provides strong guarantee for comprehensive work and production resumption as well as orderly city operation. In order to ensure normal city operation during and after the epidemic prevention period, Post-epidemic Restoration Task Force of Shenzhen Headquarters Office for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has set up the City Operation Group. Focusing on the critical task of maintaining smooth and orderly city operation, over the past month or so, member entities of the Group have formulated epidemic prevention and control guidance for industries such as utilities and energy, urban management, civil affairs, culture, sports as well as tourism, and compiled emergency plans for the supply guarantee of utilities and energy sectors, in a bid to provide robust support for the city’s comprehensive work and production resumption and post-epidemic restoration efforts. (Source: Shenzhen Release)
3. 9 billion RMB off! Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau assists more than 700,000 enterprises to resume work and production. In order to effectively reduce the burden of enterprises and support enterprises to return to work and production, Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, together with Municipal Finance Bureau and the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, have issued the Notice on Phased Reduction and Exemption of Medical Insurance Premiums of Enterprises, launching the policy for phased reduction and exemption of medical insurance premiums of enterprises. The policy benefits all insured enterprises in Shenzhen, totaling over 700,000, and is expected to reduce medical insurance fee by 9 billion RMB, providing strong support for enterprises to resume work and production. (Source: Shenzhen Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau)
4. Scientific researchers in Shenzhen race against the time and wrestle with the disease with a wide range of scientific and technological achievements serving the frontline of the epidemic prevention. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, universities including Shenzhen University, Southern University of Science and Technology, research institutions including Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as enterprises such as BGI, etc., have sounded the “scientific research assembly”. Emergency research on the epidemic has been conducted based on the long-term scientific research. At a time when Shenzhen has been positioned as the fourth national comprehensive science center, these scientific and technological achievements have applied the wisdom and strength of Shenzhen in the most needed places on the motherland. (Source: Shenzhen Release)
5. With online appointment and diagnosis by zones, Shenzhen University General Hospital fully opens regular diagnosis and treatment. Shenzhen University General Hospital has constantly strengthened daily diagnosis and treatment services as residents gradually come to the hospital. The physical examination department of the hospital has become the “hot spot” in work and production resumption period. In addition to regular physical examinations for company on-board and household registration, it has specially launched nucleic acid testing and lung CT examinations for novel coronavirus screening, as well as collective nucleic acid testing for many companies and construction sites. In order to facilitate medical services, outpatient announcements in the hospital come in both Chinese and English. (Source: sznews.com)